On a steamy February morning, Bernardino
Albuquerque — a doctor in charge of combating infectious diseases in Brazil’s
vast Amazonas state — received the text message he had been dreading for weeks.
We have two patients with symptoms. That alert from Brazilian doctors near the
Venezuelan frontier marked the start of an imported measles epidemic that is
still ravaging the Brazilian Amazon. It was the first time in nearly two
decades that the highly contagious virus had appeared in this tropical region,
home to a growing number of Venezuelan migrants. The disease has also spread to
Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. More…
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