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Disease reports, Disease Reporting Forms for measles and rubella cases and the Bulletin of the Institute for Health and Food Safety Zenica were used for data collection. &amp;lt;br \/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Results&amp;lt;br \/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/strong&amp;gt; A total of 325 patients with the diagnosis of measles were registered, 262 (80.61%) in 2014 and 63 (19.39%) in 2015 resulting in overall incidence of 81.25\/100.000. The majority of patients were aged 0-6 (p &amp;amp;lt;0.05). Of the total number of patients, only 13 (4.73%) were orderly vaccinated (p &amp;amp;lt;0.05). In the period 2009-2015 in ZDC 25.444 (83.34%) children (p &amp;amp;lt;0.05) were vaccinated with measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine. &amp;lt;br \/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Conclusion&amp;lt;br \/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/strong&amp;gt;Results of the study show that the low level of vaccination of children continues to a risk of the emergence of epidemics of measles and other infectious diseases. 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