So far this year, 18 cases of the disease have been reported in Norway, during the corresponding period last year there were ten cases. A total of twelve people contracted measles throughout 2018, also an increase compared to the previous year. For 2017, only one person was infected and in 2016 there were no cases of the disease at all.
But the number of measles-infected people in Norway is still relatively low and at the country's public health authority FHI you are not worried, partly because so many are vaccinated.
- Norway is among the countries in Europe where measles is not spread even though the disease is very contagious. Due to travel, we get cases in Norway when there are outbreaks in Europe and in other places. Those who are ill have often traveled, says Øystein Riise at the Public Health Authority.