Utilization of the Public Health Ordinance to prevent nosocomial spread in a case of acute measles-associated psychosis

• Main Authors: Chen Stein-Zamir (Author), Nitza Abramson (Author), Hagit Sonnenfeld-Alroey (Author), Jacob Charnes (Author), Dana Eckstein (Author), Aryeh Dienstag (Author), Dana Wolf (Author), Allon E. Moses (Author), Yoram G. Weiss (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Measles is a highly contagious disease. A 24 years old patient, recently exposed to measles (unvaccinated), presented in the emergency department with severe agitation, compatible with an acute psychotic episode, during the measles epidemic which spread in Israel in 2018-2019. Upon hospital...