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The Venezuelan Society of Public Health and Network Defend National Epidemiology alerted about the measles epidemic suffered by the indigenous Yanomami group in the municipality of Alto Orinoco, State of Amazonas , due to lack of vaccination and inadequate coverage of the health system
Both organizations reported that up to July 7th, 121 cases of measles had been recorded in this municipality, mainly Sanema natives, a sub Yanomami group, 53 of whom died.
In a report, experts reported that the virus began to affect the communities of Alto Ocamo-Parima in March
However, due to the fact that these are areas that, because of their location and environmental conditions, are very difficult to access. the number of contagious people is not specified.
They indicated that the spread of the disease is due to the fact that these indigenous communities have not been vaccinated against the disease. rampión and other diseases.
In addition, they warned that the relationship with the illegal miners who abound in the place is also involved; when one of them carries the virus, it facilitates the transmission of the condition of rapid contagion, to be in constant motion between communities.
It is assumed that as a boomerang effect, the disease is again entering Venezuela from Brazil, After February, cases were exported to this country as a result of the exodus Venezuelans, mainly from the states of Bolívar and Delta Amacuro.
Organizations called on the central government to participate, through a broad plan of action. vaccination and medical attention, to these unprotected communities, to avoid "serious epidemics that can decimate their population, as before."
"We demand that the Ministry of Health give immediate priority to public attention actions, aimed at controlling the epidemic that puts these ancestral natives at risk of extinction," says one party.
On the other side of the border, in Brazil, 59 cases of measles were confirmed among Venezuelan Yanomami natives, out of a total of 67 in the ethnic group living between the two countries, reported Brazilian portal G1, according to data from the Yanomami and Iekuana indigenous health special health district
The epidemic which is concentrated in 11 villages, including five in Venezuela, still presents nine cases awaiting confirmation, including six Venezuelan indigenous , says the portal.It points out that the affected people in the country, in the absence of medical service, migrate to Brazil for treatment.
We have no control over the disease among the Venezuelan natives, because the vaccination is very weak, they fall sick. Brazil is looking for help because of the bankruptcy of the Venezuelan health system, "said Rousicler de Jesús Oliveira, coordinator of the Special Health District for the Health of the Indigenous Peoples Yanomami and Iekuana, in statements to the G1. [19659013intheborderstateofRoraima412measlescaseswerereportedofwhich200wereconfirmed
Up to 30 May, 57 of them came from Venezuela and, of the same number , 34 were indigenous.
La Razón
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