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The number of confirmed cases of measles reached 2,285, between the 26 weeks of 2017 and the first 22 weeks of 2018, according to the report of the seventeenth epidemic alert, published by the Venezuelan Society of Public Health and the Red Defend the national epidemiology. The figure means that patients with measles increased by 114.30% nationwide.
"In 26 weeks of 2017, the number of confirmed cases was 727. While in the first 22 weeks of 2018, cases reach 1,558. Among these, 654 between epidemiological weeks 15 and 22, for a total of 2,285 confirmed cases, "indicates the alert, based on information provided by the Ministry of Health to WHO and PAHO. June
Entities reporting The highest incidence rates are Delta Amacuro, Bolívar, Distrito Capital and Miranda.The confirmed cases at Delta Amacuro have been notified in the municipalities of Antonio Díaz, Pedernales and Tucupita, according to the bulletin of the organizations of The highest incidence rates were recorded in the parishes of Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa, with 3,320 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, Pedernales, with 1,466 per 100,000 inhabitants, and Juan Millán, with 527 case per 100,000 inhabitants.
The indi that the new data indicate that the national plan of rapid response, which stipulates the formation of the teams, the implementation of the activities of vaccination, to interrupt the transmission of the virus, have not given the expected results.
"Up to now, the measles epidemic in development has exceeded the incidence of cases and spread more widely than it was 15 years ago., And represents a proven threat to public health of international importance.In these circumstances, it was essential to urgently strengthen a new rapid response plan, with effective vaccination of the population at risk, which was announced at the end of April 2018 ; for this, it was essential to ensure the number of extraordinary campaign vaccines, which should be developed in the coming months, on the market. The bulletin emphasizes that, nevertheless, the shortage of vaccines available at the moment prevents an effective response, which disturbs the population and the specialists of Venezuelan scientific medical societies.
The document also warns that the d an accelerated spread of the epidemic to neighboring countries in Venezuela, facilitated by the mass exodus of people from Venezuela to these countries and the precarious nutritional, economic and social conditions of emigrants.
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