Two new cases of measles after 18 years generate alertness and concern • Diario Democracia

After confirming two new cases of measles that were treated in the last hours in hospitals in the city of Buenos Aires, the Ministry of Health of the Nation issued an epidemiological alert. The people affected were a five-month-old boy from the federal capital, who began showing symptoms on July 12, and a six-month-old girl from Buenos Aires province who had fever and rashes the next day
. They showed compatible clinical signs (fever, rash, cough and conjunctivitis), and to date they show a good evolution, both cases were confirmed by serology and detection of the viral genome, "said the Minister of Health. Health in charge of Adolfo Rubinstein. Concentration control in the corresponding areas and ongoing research to determine the source of the infection.
"At the date of receipt of confirmation of two cases of measles attended in the city of Buenos Aires.In the face of this situation and the general epidemiological context, the Ministry of Health of the Nation urges health teams to to verify the vaccination status of the population, to sensitize the epidemiological surveillance of febrile exanthematous diseases and to respond quickly and adequately to the identification of

In our country, the last case of endemic measles has been registered in the year 2000. Since then, there have been 32 imported cases.The last three cases occurred in the federal capital: two imported and one related to a person who traveled abroad.
Faced with this, the health authorities are investigating at this time if the latter two cases are related to importation, that is to say if the minors, who were not vaccinated – the first dose of tr iple virus vaccine is applied to the year of life and is repeated at the entrance of the school – they were in contact
of the Argentine Immunization and Epidemiology Society ( SAVE), it has been clarified that imported or import-related cases registered in the country during the last 18 years "came mainly from English and Italian tourists. Japanese and Argentineans who had traveled to Southeast Asia. "
In the case of those babies who were not vaccinated," if they had contact with someone who had measles, they had plenty of opportunities to acquire it. Today, we are not able to ensure that it is necessarily a failure of the health system or talk about the rise of anti-vaccine movements. This is an expected situation in the context of the disease circulating in other parts of the world. In principle, it is a known situation.
Globally, measles continues to be one of the leading causes of death among young children, with approximately 89,780 deaths in 2016 attributable to this cause, most of Between them They are less than five years old.
Measles is caused by a virus of the family Paramyxovirus and is usually transmitted by direct contact and by air. The virus infects the respiratory tract and spreads to the rest of the body.