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José Salazar / News Milenio
MERIDA, Yucatán.- The Secretary of Health, through the Directorate General of Epidemiology (DGE) on Friday issued a third notice of preventive travel to Brazil , in Colombia and Venezuela before the simultaneous occurrence of active foci and the persistence of endemic cases of measles
The notice points out that there is evidence of the circulation of the same virus in different parts of the world, as well as the possibility of reintroduction of the disease in the areas
According to the information in the [19799006] Measles / Rubella Weekly Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization ( OPS), as of June 30, 2018, Brazil has recorded 350 cases, Colombia, 34, and Venezuela thousand 427.
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In Mexico, the last measles epidemic occurred in 1989-1990 with 89,163 cases reported.
Recently in 2018, the national health system epidemiological surveillance (Sinave) identified one in Baja California, three in Mexico City and another in Veracruz, confirmed by the Institute of Diagnosis and Epidemiological Reference.
The five confirmed cases, according to the OPS, are classified as associates.
The last indigenous case in the country was recorded in 1995. The infection caused by the measles virus produces an acute illness, which is one of the most contagious at world.
] Clinically, it is characterized by fever, redness of the eyes, nasal congestion, coughing, small spots inside the mouth and, later, rashes on the face and the neck
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