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The Venezuelan Society of Public Health and the 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
They reported that until July 7, there were 121 cases of measles in this municipality, mainly indigenous Sanema, a subgroup Yanomami, 53 of whom died. In one report, experts reported that the virus began to affect the communities of Alto Ocamo-Parima in March. However, since these areas are very difficult to access due to their location and environmental conditions, the number of contagious people is not specified.
They pointed out that the spread of the disease is due to the fact that these indigenous communities they have not been vaccinated against measles and other diseases. In addition, they warned that there is also a relationship with illegal miners that abound in the region; 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 has again entered Venezuela from Brazil, After February, cases were exported to this country as a result of mass exodus of Venezuelans, mainly states of Bolívar and Delta Amacuro.
The organizations called on the central government to participate, through a vast plan of vaccination and medical attention, to these unprotected communities, to avoid "serious epidemics that can decimate their population, as before. "
"We request 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. of the document.
Brazil affected. On the other side of the border, according to the EFE agency, 59 cases of measles were confirmed among Venezuelan Yanomami Indians, out of 67 in total of the ethnic group that lives between the two countries, the portal reported. Brazilian G1, according to data provided by the Yanomami Special Health District and Iekuana Indigenous Health
The epidemic which is concentrated in 11 villages, including 5 in Venezuela, still presents 9 cases pending confirmation, including 6 Venezuelan natives , says the portal. He points out that the people affected 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 get sick." Rousicler de Jesús Oliveira, coordinator of the Yanomami and Iekuana special health district for the health of indigenous, told G1
that the Burundian authorities sought help because of the bankruptcy of the Venezuelan health system.Brazilians in the border state of Roraima report 412 cases of measles , of which 200 were confirmed Up to May 30, 57 of them came from Venezuela and of the same number, 34 were indigenous.
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