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No breaches in infection control procedures, or other cases among contacts, patients and healthcare workers were identified. Molecular analysis provided evidence of patient-to-worker transmission: the two B3 genome sequences showed only one mutation and no sequences of other countries were identified as phylogenetically related. Isolation precautions and full PPE were widely implemented in the ED during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, this did not prevent nosocomial transmission of measles. 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