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The Salem Serem of the Metropolitan Region, Omar Cáceres confirmed an imported case of measles in a four-year-old boy who entered Chile by land from Tacna.
A Venezuelan child who left his country to travel to Chile on November 12 traveling with his mother to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, according to health authorities.
Seremi de Salud arrived on November 19 in Arica where he took a bus to Santiago .
For this reason, the seminar or seminars on the health of the metropolitan area were organized. a call to all pbadengers of the Expreso Norte machine so that they contact the health authorities.
#AHORA Serem of Salud (s) Omar Cáceres confirms the case of # measles imported from a miner in the #RMdeTodos . The patient has entered the country by bus from Tacna and it is necessary to contact the rest of the pbadengers. Important information here los and the details of the case in https://t.co/KjlU1wdAK6 pic.twitter.com/GIAgxhazB8
– Serem of Salud RM (@SeremiSaludRM) on the 28th November 2018
"We call the pbadengers who took the same bus as the line Expreso Norte 198, from Arica to Santiago, with a given departure time at 17:30, which contacts the health authorities by the indicated telephones ", ie +569 89001761 and +569 85271580, in order to exclude infections said Cáceres.
While field epidemiologist Seremi de Salud, Sergio Alcayaga stressed that they will "locate all the people who boarded the bus to detect if there are any If we do not, we will have to do some type of blockade, which is to use vaccines in people who are likely to incubate the disease. "
According to health authorities However, it is estimated that the disease was contagious between November 2 and 15, while the child was still abroad.
Twenty-five people who have been in contact with the child have already been vaccinated; who is hospitalized in good health and about to be discharged .
Called to Tranquility
This is the second case of imported measles detected in the country, which subsequently affected a woman of Colombian nationality at the beginning of November
The health authorities have called for calm in this recent case because, he said, the Chilean population in general is vaccinated and protected. against measles.
However, the specialist of infectious diseases of the Clínica Las Condes, Rodrigo Blamey stated that "the problem concerns people born between 1971 and 1981 because it is badumed that they have no dose, and therefore the Ministry recommends that, if they go abroad, these people be vaccinated before they leave, and to the children who are born, that the mothers complete their vaccination program, that they do not do not skip their vaccines. "
" We must call for calm in the sense that it is very unlikely that we will have a national epidemic because most people should be protected ", he declared.
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