The authorities hold vaccine days from both home and shopping centers and called the population to take their children to apply the dose.
Last Tuesday, David Kershenobich, head of the Federal Government Ministry of Health, reported that there are more cases of measles in population that was not vaccinated. Until this day, five people were hospitalized: three by pneumonia, one with encephalitis and one by liver injury. A person died.
“There has been a death in a patient who had nothing more measles, but had renal damage, liver damage and also had comorbidities, such as diabetes, etc., and was contaminated – he was not vaccinated – with the measles virus,” he said.
The Secretary of Health asked the population to complete their health schemes, but especially measles.
“So, what is very important to us is to recommend the vaccination scheme again (…), because if we achieve 90% of vaccination throughout the population, that controls by itself, the measles outbreak,” he said.
Symptoms and risk factors
Measles is characterized by the presence of high fever, skin eruption, cough, red eyes and can seriously affect minors or people with low weight and with a weakened immune system.
Among the risk factors are the following: not being vaccinated, traveling to a country that presents cases of measles and having vitamin A.
The most serious complications that are reported are blindness, brain inflammation, severe diarrhea and pneumonia, which can compromise the integrity of the person.
