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In a follow-up report from September 2022, Paraguay health officials say the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was received with reference to one of the last samples sent in September 2022, of a suspicion of measles in the city of Hohenau. , Itapúa department. This result came out positive for measles. 

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Given this indisputable laboratory confirmation, the health portfolio will issue an alert and measures will be taken, as well as those that have already been applied will be strengthened. Between them:

–  Intensify epidemiological surveillance through active institutional search for cases, contact tracing and monitoring of these. 

–  Intensify the surveillance of “Fever Eruptive Illnesses” in the establishments of the national health system.

–  In territories with suspicion, carry out active community searches, teaching with images of measles cases.

–  Raise vaccination coverage in the community and deploy vaccination teams to those who have not received two doses of SRP.

–  Strengthen the operational staff, as well as the capacities of the laboratories.

–  Share the information with the region for joint actions, mainly in border areas.

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When the suspicious case was disclosed in September, an  investigation of the case was carried out and 40 contacts were detected, but none developed the disease. Attempts have been made to identify the suspected source of the confirmed case, but the possible source has not been detected.

This is the first case of measles in the country in 25 years (1998), the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare noted.