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Macao (MNA) – A total of 19 cases of measles have been confirmed in Macau since the beginning of the year, 11 of which are considered local cases, the Health Bureau said.
With only five new cases reported over the weekend, the health authority urges residents to take the necessary precautions, including vaccination, and speaks of a "strong possibility" of new cases in the future.
Three new cases were confirmed on Sunday, including two at Kiang Wu Hospital, where two interns aged 25 and 26 were infected after treating patients on March 7 in a room where a person with measles had been hospitalized.
A 30-year-old male resident working in the Venetian seaside resort of Macao was also confirmed Sunday for being infected after showing the first symptoms on March 21st.
The patient had been vaccinated against measles (two injections). His relatives have no symptoms, but the SS monitor the situation at his workplace since March 24, he was transported by his colleagues to the emergency unit of the Conde public hospital. Sao Januario, in the islands.
With more than half of the cases confirmed so far in Kiang Wu – nine in total, including seven health professionals – the SS have categorized the private hospital case as a group infection.
The director of the SS, Lei Chin Ion, said that the authorities had vaccinated Air Macau workers in the light of the epidemics in neighboring areas and had provided vaccines to Kiang Wu's medical staff.
Confirmed cases on Saturday include a 30-year-old Filipino working in a bakery, who first showed symptoms on March 19, and a Macau resident, also 30, who works as a nurse in Kiang Wu, who is caring to a measles patient on March 7th.
The first case was clbadified as an imported case of measles, a Filipino who visited relatives in the Philippines between March 3 and 18, including a person who was reported to have measles.
The nurse contracted the disease at the hospital. She said she was vaccinated against measles in mainland China, where she is from.
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