Measles: New State Epidemiological Bulletin Reports Case Under Investigation in Santa Juliana | Minas Gerais Triangle

In addition to the new case in Santa Juliana, there is also an old investigation in Limeira do Oeste. To date, no case of measles has been confirmed in Minas Gerais.

Measles is a common infectious, infectious, acute, serious, communicable, highly contagious childhood disease.

According to the Department of Health of the State of Minas Gerais, in the classic clinical picture, the symptoms of the disease include cough, coryza, rhinorrhea (acute rhinitis), conjunctivitis (red eyes), photophobia (aversion light) and spots of koplik whitish spots present on the oral mucosa).

The course of the disease can lead to infectious complications such as tonsillitis (more common in the adult), otitis (more common in the child), sinusitis, encephalitis and pneumonia that can lead to death. The complications often affect undernourished children under one year old.

Transmission occurs from person to person through secretions (or aerosols) present in speech, coughing, sneezing or even breathing. In the presence of unimmunized individuals or those who have never had measles, the disease can remain at an endemic level, producing recurrent epidemics.

Location in Minas Gerais

At present, 424 suspected cases have been reported, of which 334 have been eliminated in laboratories and 90 are under investigation, pending the results of laboratory analyzes carried out by the Fundação. Ezequiel Dias (Funed-MG).

According to the analyzes carried out to date, 19 suspect cases presented seropositive / reactive or inconclusive samples belonging to the first collection, belonging to the following municipalities: Belo Horizonte (three cases), Caratinga (one case), Carmo da Mata (one case), Conceição das Pedras (two cases), Itanhandu (two cases), Muriaé (two cases), Jequitinhonha (one case), Juiz de Fora (one case), Lagoa Santa (one case), Raposos ( one case), Ribeirão das Neves), Santa Helena de Minas (one case), Santa Juliana (one case) and São Roque de Minas (one case)

Suspicious samples – after the second collection – are sent to the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, which retests serological tests and conducts molecular biology to detect viruses.