Measles Outbreak in NSW: Vaccination Analysis and Management

This assignment analyzes a measles outbreak in New South Wales, evaluating the impact of vaccination strategies based on peer reviews. The first peer highlights that inadequate vaccination among students is a major factor in the outbreak, along with the lack of immunization records. The second peer discusses how misunderstandings regarding the severity of measles, and low antibody levels due to lack of or partial immunisation have contributed to the outbreaks. The analysis emphasizes the importance of public health management, including vaccination clinics and drives, in controlling the spread of the disease. The assignment concludes that high vaccination rates are crucial for managing vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks and stresses the need for public awareness regarding the benefits and procedures of vaccination. References from books and journals are also included to support the findings.

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Question 1 [Part B]
On the same context of measles outbreak in NSW there were more answers to this
research study by two peers. According to the first peer 75 cases were documented in the
Victoria among them 23 patients were school aged children among which 3 had measles
vaccination, 17 were without any vaccination and 3 were found to have unknown vaccination
history. According to him students who lacked vaccination, were prone to this disease and
consisted the highest population who is suffering from the measles. The main reason that was
found by him was inadequate vaccination among the students also the lack of immunisation
records that highly affected the proper management of this outbreak. However, this peer has not
provided information regarding main reason behind the spread of measles among students accept
the lack of vaccination. Along with this data also lack the information regarding spread of
measles infections among the age group people existing in the society. Along with this according
to the second peer few small outbreaks in Australia regarding measles had created the
misunderstanding regarding serious impacts of this disease (King and Leask, 2017). On the basis
of his answer the World Health Organisation had published a report in which it announced that
measles has been eliminated from the Western Pacific region in Australia. But after that many
outbreaks were found in other region in the Australia. The peer also mentioned in its answer that
low level of antibody has increased the risk of spread of measles. The main reason of the decline
in antibodies is people chose not to get immunised and second reason is partial immunisation.
This peers haven't provided that actual statistics of the prevalence of this infection among various
age group of society. His discussion also lacks information regarding the sign and symptoms that
were majorly observed among various patients who suffered from measles. The important role of
nurses and healthcare team is also not included in the study.
Most common reason for successful management were identified as: first and the
foremost reason that was found is, common public health management. On reviewing answers, it
was found that aspects were public health was common in all which includes the involvement of
many public health staff members for the proper diagnosis and treatment of this particular
diseases. The second reason of the successful management was Setting of MMR vaccinations
clinics in order to provide prophylactic dose of MMR vaccines among the children and other
people to immunise them against the viral effect of measles. Also, the involvement of public
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health official in the effective vaccination drive against widespread disease was the common
management aspects in all the provided answers.
Vaccinations provides the community with benefits regrading disease control. Vaccines
contain the antigens that are the main source of disease and in case of measles the vaccines
contain measles virus. But these viruses are either killed or weakened so that they are not able to
infect the body and this in turn helps humans in development of antibodies against these antigens
(Nyhan and et.al., 2014). Thus, this help in reducing the impact of disease from the community
as they will develop the antibodies against the virus of measles. So it can be concluded that high
vaccination rates can contribute in the successful management of vaccine preventable disease
outbreaks in community. Along with this there is need of awareness regarding the advantages of
vaccination and its working procedure in order to make people more aware and responsible for
vaccination programmes.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
King, C. and Leask, J., 2017. ‘The impact of a vaccine scare on parental views, trust and
information needs: a qualitative study in Sydney, Australia’, BMC Public Health BMC
series – open, inclusive and trusted. 17. Pp. 106.
Nyhan, B. and et.al., 2014. Effective messages in vaccine promotion: a randomized
trial. Pediatrics. 133(4). Pp.e835-e842.
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