Measles mortality in high and low burden districts of India: Estimates from a nationally representative study of over 12,000 child deaths

• Published in: Vaccine 2013-09, Vol.31 (41), p.4655-4661
• Main Authors: Morris, Shaun K, Awasthi, Shally, Kumar, Rajesh, Shet, Anita, Khera, Ajay, Nakhaee, Fatemeh, Ram, Usha, Brandao, Jose R.M, Jha, Prabhat
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adolescent; Age; Allergy and Immunology; Applied microbiology; Autopsies; Autopsy; Biological and medical sciences; boys; Child; Child, Preschool; Childhood; Children; death; Estimates; Fatalities; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Girls; Households; Human viral diseases; Humans; Immunization; India; India - epidemiology; Infant; Infant mortality; Infectious diseases; Male; Measles; Measles - mortality; Medical sciences; Microbiology; Mortality; necropsy; risk; Risk Factors; Survival Analysis; Vaccine; Vaccines; Vaccines, antisera, therapeutical immunoglobulins and monoclonal antibodies (general aspects); Viral diseases; Viral diseases with cutaneous or mucosal lesions and viral diseases of the eye
• ISSN: 0264-410X; 1873-2518
• DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.07.012

Highlights • We use a nationally representative sample of deaths to estimate national and sub-national measles mortality in India. • Measles killed about 92,000 children under 5 years of age and 107,000 children under 15 years of age in India in 2005. • Over 70% of under 5 measles deaths occurred in just 6 States. • The overall risk of dying from measles was nearly 70% higher in girls than in boys under 5 years of age.