Re-Emergence of Measles in the European Countries; another Challenge in Hand: Highlight from Italy

Measles is an acute viral infectious disease that can lead to significant morbidity and mortality in past around the globe. In European countries, measles is still one of the challenging health is- sues with evidence of re-emerging of new cases (1). Before, the development of vaccine it was considered one of the leading killer among the children. However, the vaccination reduced the number from millions to thousands and just few years back most of the countries declared the dis- ease elimination. However, in the recent time, a million cases of measles were reported from the WHO European Region. In 2015, a large-scale measles outbreak was reported from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Kyrgyzstan and Russia Federation (2).