MEASLES – MEXICO: (MEXICO CITY) INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
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Date: Thu 21 Mar 2024
Fuente: MSN, México [in Spanish, machine trans., abridged, edited]
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Measles has arrived in Mexico City. The Ministry of Health confirmed,
on the night of March 20 [2024], the arrival of an imported case in a
4-year-old child who entered through the Mexico City International
Airport on March 14 [2024] and who came from London. The child is
originally from Romania, a resident of Hungary, and has a history of
receiving a vaccine.
The physical examination revealed everything that was needed. The
symptoms were exactly those of a case of measles: the typical red dots
that predominated on his head, chest and arms and, in addition, the
patient had conjunctivitis, cough, coryza and fever. For now he is
stable and is recovering at home.
Last February [2024], the World Health Organization (WHO) warned: more
than half of the world’s countries could be at high risk of measles
cases due to the lack of vaccine coverage during the COVID-19
pandemic.
Mexico has never been completely free of the measles virus. In 2019
there were 20 imported cases and in 2020 there were 196 cases,
according to figures compiled by science journalist Maria Luisa
Santillán for Ciencia UNAM. Until epidemiological week 5 of 2024, 140
probable cases of measles or rubella [presumably rubeola was meant –
Mod.LL] were reported, according to the epidemiological notice of
February 8. According to the WHO, until February 2024 there were 306
291 reported cases, an increase of 79% compared to the same month in
2023.