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Epidemiological data were obtained from the surveillance database of the Institute of Public Health of Serbia. Of the 363 cases involved in the outbreak, 113 were laboratory confirmed. More than one third of the patients were hospitalized (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>= 130, 35\u00b78%) and for 15 (4\u00b71% of the reported outbreak cases) the infection was complicated by pneumonia. Mostly pre-school children aged \u2a7d4 years (37\u00b78%) and adults aged \u2a7e30 years (27\u00b73%) were affected. The majority of patients belonged to the Roma population with a preponderance of female cases (57\u00b70%). Nearly 94% of the patients were either unvaccinated or of unknown vaccination status. The main outbreak virus was the D4-Hamburg strain. 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