Rincón-León Héctor Armando, Navarro-Fuentes Karla Reyna
Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Órgano de Operación Administrativa Desconcentrada Estatal en Chiapas, Coordinación Auxiliar de Investigación en Salud.
Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Unidad de Medicina Familiar No. 11, Departamento de Epidemiología. Tapachula, Chiapas, México.
Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc. 2020 Nov 4;58(6):644-647. doi: 10.24875/RMIMSS.M20000095.
Measles is a viral disease with an ample clinical spectrum that can range from fever, cough and rash, to death. It is the most contagious human disease known. In the last 50 years, mainly due to vaccination, its mortality has decreased by more than 90%. However, in the last five years the cases of Measles have increased significantly, causing 144,000 deaths in 2019. In Mexico, the arrival of COVID-19 represents a serious threat to immunization programs because it converges in time with the worst measles outbreak since 1994.
麻疹是一种病毒性疾病,临床症状范围广泛,从发热、咳嗽和皮疹到死亡不等。它是已知传染性最强的人类疾病。在过去50年里,主要由于接种疫苗,其死亡率下降了90%以上。然而,在过去五年中,麻疹病例显著增加,2019年导致14.4万人死亡。在墨西哥,新冠疫情的到来对免疫计划构成了严重威胁,因为它与自1994年以来最严重的麻疹疫情在时间上重合。