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Brazil has already registered 10,163 cases of measles confirmed since the beginning of this year until November 27, according to data released Wednesday by the Ministry of Health.
Of the total cases, 9,695 occurred during the year.
Twelve deaths have also been confirmed – four in Roraima, six in Amazonas and two in Pará.
According to the Ministry, the increase in the number of confirmations is due to A working group met in Manaus last month to evaluate the test results on suspected cases.
The Government states, however, that the number of new suspected cases has been reduced in recent weeks.
In Amazonas, the largest number of cases occurred between July and August of this year. In Roraima, the peak of the disease was between February and April, he reported.
However, the number of cases is the highest since 1997, when there were 53,000 confirmed cases in the country.
"In both states, the curve of new cases is decreasing" In the following years, the country began to record a reduction in the transmission of the disease. Since then, there have been only epidemics related to measles importation from other countries.
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Besides Amazonas and Roraima, which concentrate 98.5% of confirmed cases this year, the onset of the disease was also confirmed in Rio Grande do Sul (45), Pará (41) , Rio de Janeiro (19), Pernambuco (4), Sergipe (4) and São Paulo (3), Rondônia (2), Bahia In a note, the ministry indicates that it "follows the situation in the States" and took steps to block the vaccination of suspected cases.
According to the Ministry, the two outbreaks in Roraima and Amazonas are linked to an importation of the virus circulating in Venezuela
According to the Ministry, the two outbreaks in Roraima and Amazonas are linked to an importation of the virus in circulation in Venezuela. Indeed, the genotype of the virus is the D8, the same that circulates in the neighboring country.
The same is true of other states that have cases where patients have traveled to countries where the disease has broken out in Europe and Lebanon.
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