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Spain: 2018 Measles

Shiloh

Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: https://elpais.com/sociedad/2018/12/23/actualidad/1545597057_002400.html

Cinco auxiliares de vuelo y un pasajero, diagnosticados de sarampi?n en Barcelona
Los afectados viajaron en vuelos nacionales y a otros pa?ses de la UE en noviembre. No se descarta la aparici?n de nuevos casos, seg?n el jefe de medicina preventiva del Hospital Cl?nic
Agencias
Barcelona 23 DIC 2018 - 21:56 CET

Google translation:

Five flight attendants and one passenger, diagnosed with measles in Barcelona
Those affected traveled on domestic flights and to other EU countries in November. The emergence of new cases is not ruled out, according to the chief of preventive medicine at the Hospital Cl?nic
Agencies
Barcelona 23 DEC 2018 - 21:56 CET

Five flight attendants and one passenger of an airplane have been diagnosed with measles in Barcelona, ​​according to the head of preventive medicine at the Hospital Cl?nic in the city, the epidemiologist Antoni Trilla. In his Twitter profile, the specialist has specified that those affected traveled on domestic flights and to other countries of the European Union during the month of November and that, due to the study of the cases, the appearance of new victims is not ruled out.

Last April, the Public Health Agency of Catalonia (ASPCAT) reported an outbreak of measles in the hospital Verge de la Cinta de Tortosa that affected ten people, five workers of the center or external companies linked and other five people served in the hospital or that they had been in contact with any of the infected employees. None of them required entry.

Most of the people detected with measles this year in Catalonia have contracted the virus in other countries where there are open measles outbreaks. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) last August excluded Spain from the European outbreak of measles: "The transmission in Spain of measles and rubella viruses has been interrupted for more than 36 months, and therefore is considered eliminated ", wrote the agency in a letter addressed to the Ministry of Health...
 
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