Measles has resurfaced in the Czech Republic after being eradicated, according to a Mladá fronta Dnes report (computer translated).

Czech Republic
Czech Republic

The airborne virus is not only affecting children, but also middle aged people, prompting health officials to express concern about a possible epidemic among adults.

“This is because people born between 1968 and 1976 received only one dose of the vaccine [as babies], while only later it turned out that one is not enough, but that two doses are needed,” Radomíra Limberková, from the National Measles Reference Laboratory, told the paper.

“People in the group above have a lower level of antibodies preventing measles’ outbreak”, she added.

