Wednesday, 25 April 2018

PRO/EDR> Measles update (27): South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, USA

Measles -- Colombia
The World Health Organization (WHO) is on alert due to the reported regional spread of measles from Venezuela, where a major outbreak is underway, throughout the Americas. The region had been declared measles-free in 2016 but the disease has made a resurgence in Venezuela (notably the state of BolĂ­var), where the medical infrastructure has been severely degraded due to an ongoing politico-economic crisis. There are fears that the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan refugees fleeing their

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5767864&promed&0

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