822 cases of measles in Brazil increase, all imported from Venezuela | In the world

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Brazil has registered to date 822 confirmed cases of measles, 17.6% more than those counted up to ten days ago by the Ministry of Health in his report on this disease, informed official sources today.

According to the Department of Health, in addition to confirmed cases, most of them in the states Amazonas and Roraima in the Venezuela 3,831 other cases are reviewed by health authorities

According to this portfolio, all cases are related to the importation of the Venezuelan virus, as it was found that the virus that circulates in Brazil (D8) is the same as that of the neighboring country.

"It should be noted that measures to block vaccination, even in suspected cases, are conducted in all states," said the ministry. note posted on your port

Of the 822 confirmed cases, 519 were recorded in the state of Amazonas and 272 in the state of Roraima, as well as a few isolated cases in the states of Sao Paulo (1), Rio de Janeiro (14), Rio Grande from the South (13), Rondônia (1 ) and A (2). [19659005] According to the Ministry of Health, Brazil is taking preventive measures and is blocking the disease throughout the country through vaccination to interrupt the transmission of outbreaks and to prevent the establishment of 39, sustained transmission

. To be considered a sustained transmission, the same outbreak should occur for more than 12 months, "said the ministry.

One of the health entities' recommendations is that adults who have not been vaccinated against measles receive the vaccine, mainly in places where there are epidemics of the disease

According to the Ministry, between 2013 and 2015, Brazil has presented outbreaks of patients from other countries, when there are had 1,310 cases of measles, most in the states of Pernambuco and Ceará, in the north-east of the country and one of the poorest regions of Brazil

The disease can cause serious health problems, such as pneumonia, blindness, brain inflammation and even death.

] The Americas were the first in the world to declare themselves measles-free in 2016, the year during from which Brazil has received Gold Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) the certificate of elimination of measles. the circulation of the measles virus.