Peru confirms four measles cases in Lima, although it rules out local transmission

Lima.- The Ministry of Health (Minsa) of Peru confirmed this Monday that four cases of measles have been detected in Lima, although it ruled out that there is a local transmission in the capital of Peru, a country that is facing an outbreak of the disease in the southern region of Puno, bordering Bolivia. The Ministry of Health confirmed in a statement that two of the cases in Lima were detected in the residential district of San Isidro, another in a student from Puno, and the next case in one of their relatives. Regarding this, the director of the National Center for Epidemiology, Prevention and Disease Control (CDC), César Munayco, ruled out that "currently" there is a local transmission of measles. He added that following the epidemiological alert issued by the Ministry of Health due to the outbreak in Puno, vaccination campaigns, epidemiological surveillance, and active case finding are being strengthened throughout the country.

"Lima currently has no local transmission of the disease," he affirmed.

The Ministry of Health specified that during Epidemiological Weeks 3 and 8 of this year, two diagnoses of measles were recorded, one in each case, in men residing in San Isidro, the first imported and the second of unknown origin. Error en el proceso de traducción Error en el proceso de traducción

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