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Genomic and Epidemiologic Insights into Ongoing Measles Outbreak, Israel, 2025–2026
Efrat Bucris
1, Neta S. Zuckerman
1, Tal Levin, Yara Kanaaneh, Oran Erster, Victoria Indenbaum, Keren Friedman, Danit Sofer, Eli Schwartz, Elena Chernin, Or Kriger, Rana Shibli, Sharon Elroi Prais, Zohar Mor, Nitza Abramson, Michal Savion, Naama Nuss, Ady Cohen Golan, Eva Avramovich, Dror Yakir, Liora Guy David, Efrat Rorman, Yaniv Lustig
, and
National Measles Working Group,2
Author affiliation: Central Virology Laboratory, Public Health Services, Ministry of Health and Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel (E. Bucris, N.S. Zuckerman, T. Levin, Y. Kanaaneh, O. Erster, V. Indenbaum, K. Friedman, D. Sofer, Y. Lustig); Gray Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel (N.S. Zuckerman, Y. Lustig); The Center for Geographic Medicine and Tropical Diseases, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel (E. Schwartz); Ministry of Health Division of Epidemiology, Jerusalem, Israel (E. Chernin, O. Kriger, R. Shibli, S.E. Prais); Health Intelligence, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem (S.E. Prais, D. Yakir, L.G. David); Program for Public Health, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel (Z. Mor); Jerusalem Department of Health, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem (Z. Mor, N. Abramson); Tel Aviv Department of Health, Ministry of Health, Tel-Aviv (M. Savion, N. Nuss); Central District Health Bureau, Ramla, Israel (A.C. Golan, E. Avramovich); Ministry of Health Department of Laboratories, Jerusalem (E. Rorman)
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Figure 2
Figure 2. Geographic distribution of sequenced measles cases and importation clusters from genomic and epidemiologic investigation into ongoing measles outbreak, Israel, 2025–2026. Map displays the geographic distribution of sequenced cases by city. Colors denote the 3 major identified importation clusters, and the accompanying pie chart represents the percentage of sequenced samples belonging to each outbreak cluster; number of samples sequenced out of 132 total samples are shown.
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