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Volume 32, Number 11—November 2026

Dispatch

Pediatric Deaths during Measles Outbreak, Jerusalem, Israel, 2025–2026

Zohar MorComments to Author , Hanna Shoob, Irinia Sokolov, Efrat Bucris, Chen Stein-Zamir, Ariel Tenenbaum, Orli Megged1, and Oren Gordon1
Author affiliation: Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel (Z. Mor, H. Shoob, I. Sokolov); Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel (Z. Mor); Ministry of Health Virology Laboratory, Tel Hashomer, Israel (E. Bucris); Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel (C. Stein-Zamir, A. Tenenbaum, O. Megged, O. Gordon); Hadassah Ein Karem Medical Center, Jerusalem (A. Tenenbaum, O. Gordon); Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem (O. Megged)

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Table 3

Laboratory and clinical characteristics of children who died during measles outbreak, Jerusalem, Israel, April 2025–March 2026*

Case Measles RT-PCR result Fever Rash Cough Conjunctivitis Koplik spots Pneumonia on chest x-ray Blood
culture findings		 Respiratory aspirate or pleural fluid culture findings
1
 +
 Y
 Y
 N
 N
 N
 Y
 Staphylococcus pneumoniae
 –
2
 +
 Y
 Y
Y
 Y
 Y
 –
 –
3
 +
 Y
 Y
 Y
 Y
 Y
 Y
 –
 –
4
 NA
 Y
 Y
 Y
 N
 N
 Y
 MSSA
 –
5
 NA
 Y
 Y
 Y
 N
 N
 Y
 S. pyogenes
 S. pyogenes
6
 +
 Y
 Y
 Y
 N
 N
 N
 MSSA and Haemophilus influenzae (non–B)
 –
7
 +
 Y
 Y
 Y
 Y
 Y
 Y
 –
 MSSA and S. pyogenes
8
 +
 Y
 Y
N
 N
 N
 –
 –
9
 +
 Y
 Y
 Y
 Y
 Y
 Y
 –
 MSSA
10
 +
 Y
 Y
 N
 N
 N
 N
 S. pneumoniae
 –
11
 +
 Y
 Y
 N
 N
 N
 Y
 S. pettenkoferi
 –
*MSSA, methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus; NA, not available; RT-PCR, reverse transcription PCR; +, positive; –, negative.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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