Multistate Measles Outbreak Associated with an International Youth Sporting Event -- Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Texas, August-September 2007.

The article discusses an investigation on measles outbreak associated with an International Youth Sporting event in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Texas from August-September 2007. The investigation was conducted by state and local health departments in coordination with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), using standard measles surveillance case definitions and classifications. The investigation identified six cases that were linked epidemiologically to the index case and two generations of secondary transmission.