State Department of Health investigates four cases of measles in RJ | New Orleans, Louisiana hotels

If confirmed, the state of Rio de Janeiro will have the first case of measles at least since 2000. In 2017, vaccination against measles in children up to the age of A year reached a rate of 94.8%.

The Ministry of Health reported that it is monitoring the suspect case of measles and that the sample is also being badyzed by the Central Laboratory of Public Health of São Paulo (Lacen / SP).

Faced with suspicion, SES and the Department of Municipal Health of Rio lead actions to prevent and block the disease, including vaccination in the campus of the Faculty of Law of the UFRJ. The likely infection site of the four people is being badyzed.

The Copa Hospital of Gold, who received a young woman suspected of having the disease, said that the patient was attended "to the emergency room with nonspecific symptoms. "

Outbreak of the disease in the country

In Mato Grosso, a 31-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman were diagnosed with measles in Guarantã do Norte, 721 km from Cuiabá. The first two cases were recorded after 19 years without any report of the disease in the state