[The present epidemiologic status and prognosis in measles].

During 1990 and partly also 1991, after a practically 10-year zero incidence of measles on the territory of the Czech Republic a measles epidemic broke out. The most severely affected group were adolescents aged 15-19 years who were immunized only by a single dose of vaccine. Conversely the lowest morbidity was recorded in 2-9-year-old children who were immunized already with two doses.

[Viral hepatitis A in the catchment area of the Brno University Hospital 1983-1990].

Introduction of assessment of specific anti-HAV IgM antibodies by the RIA method in 1983 and in 1989 also by the ELISA method made accurate aetiological diagnosis of viral hepatitis A (HA) possible. The authors evaluated the incidence of HA in 1983 to 1990 in the catchment area of the Clinic for Infectious Diseases of the University Hospital and Policlinic in Brno-Bohunice and the Clinic of Infectious Diseases in Children of the Paediatric University Hospital with Policlinic in Brno-Cerná Pole, i.e.

[Occupational diseases of health care workers].

During the past years in Czechoslovakia some 5000 occupational diseases, intoxications and other occupational health damage was recorded. Per year about one fifth of the affected people were health workers. The authors made an analysis of occupational diseases in the South Moravian region in 1975 to 1990.

[Analysis of communicable occupational diseases in the South Moravian Region 1975-1989].

In 1975 to 1989 in the South Moravian region 2732 communicable and parasitic diseases were diagnosed and notified. The long-term trend has a declining character. At the end of the period of investigation a decline to 43% of the initial level was recorded.