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Paraguay confirms first case of measles in 25 years

The last measles epidemics in Paraguay were reported in 1987, 1990 and 1993 | Font: Getty Images

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Paraguay has confirmed the country’s first case of measles in 25 years, it said on Friday Ministry of Health D social Security.

We are talking about a man from the city of Hohenau, in the department of Itapua, on the border with Argentina, the details of which are not specified, CEO Health surveillanceGuillermo Sequera.

The case confirmation, dated September last year, was provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), part of the Service. healthcare United States, Secker added.

“We are trying to find the alleged source of this confirmed case. We didn’t find it,” he said.

The doctor assured that “these diseases, which did not exist 20-30 years ago, will begin to appear in the country” if “appropriate measures” are not taken.

He assured that the coverage of this disease in the country is “not optimal”.

warned that in Paraguayan there are doctors who have been trained and have “never seen the disease” so a possible suspected contagion “may slip away”.

They will increase surveillance

In this sense Ministry of Health warned in his latest weekly epidemiological report that he would step up surveillance of “febrile and eruptive diseases” in institutions National Health Systemand will share information in the region for “joint action, mainly in border areas”.

Recent epidemics measles in Paraguay they were reported in 1987, 1990 and 1993, with an average of 1500 cases. According to a report from the Expanded Program on Immunization (PAI), the last measles outbreak was in 1998, when 70 cases were confirmed. (EFE)


Source: RPP

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