So far there are three confirmed cases, but they rule out an epidemic.
Measles is a contagious disease caused by a virus characterized by fever, cough, runny nose, red eyes, and a rash. It is transmitted by contact with droplets from the nose, mouth, or throat of an infected person . There is no specific treatment, management is only symptomatic.
Last year, the WHO registered 21,315 measles cases and 35 deaths in Europe alone, 400% more than the previous year, where the most affected countries were Italy (4,803) and Romania (4,487). And this year, cases are reported in eight countries in the Americas: Antigua and Barbuda (1), Brazil (8), Canada (3), United States of America (11), Guatemala (1), Mexico (3), Peru (1) and Venezuela (159). The three confirmed cases, according to PAHO, are classified as import-associated, whose disease was spread by an infected person who came from outside the country.
But a few days ago, the National Epidemiological Surveillance System (SINAVE) identified three cases in Mexico City, the first corresponds to a 39-year-old woman of Italian origin, resident of the Benito Juárez Delegation; the second is a child under one year of age, the son of the 39-year-old woman, and the third case corresponds to a 48-year-old woman, who cares for the minor, the latter being a resident of the Tlalpan Delegation. The three cases reported were confirmed by the Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference (InDRE) and are currently asymptomatic. In Mexico, there was no record of autochthonous measles cases since 1996.