A Centers for Disease Control report says 84% of recent measles cases in Chicago are linked to a wave of illegal immigrants from Venezuela.
The report found that 84% of the identified cases were unvaccinated and potentially infectious undocumented immigrants from Venezuela. tracked According to reports, the virus was contracted by an immigrant boy who arrived in Chicago with the disease. daily mail.
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The CDC added that 57 cases were found at the same migrant shelter in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood.
However, Venezuela was not the only source of infection traced. The organization also noted that 16% of Chicago’s cases can be traced to people who contracted the disease in Peru and Chile.
Chicago health officials worked to contain the disease after a migrant child was taken from a shelter to a hospital on February 27th. As of May 13, the city had confirmed 57 measles cases among migrants living in evacuation centers.
Most of the migrants infected with measles were from Venezuela. However, authorities also discovered four patients from Peru, two from Ecuador and one from Chile. The last case was discovered in a patient who did not disclose his hometown. Of the affected individuals, 0 were female and 27 were male, and the patients’ ages ranged from 6 months to 49 years.
The Pilsen evacuation center has been used to house around 2,100 people since February.
According to the CDC, as of May 16, a total of 139 people have been infected with measles. report In 21 US states. The majority of those cases are in Illinois, with most in the Chicago area.
The number of confirmed cases so far this year is a significant increase since 2020, when only 13 cases were reported in the country. In 2021, 49 cases were reported, and in 2023, 58 cases were reported, but in 2022, there was a sharp increase with 121 cases reported.
Despite the direct link between cases and immigrants, Chicago’s health commissioner told Windy City residents there was no threat of further spread.
However, Chicago City Councilman Raymond Lopez criticized the city for not having any outbreaks in immigrant shelters, saying, “If we don’t enact U.S.-standard vaccinations for all immigrants who are deported, “The whole thing could have been avoided,” he said. City of Chicago. ”
“Our public health department and other officials are not responding to the alerts we have been issuing since August of last year and since September, when receipts from ambulances showed the following symptoms: “I don’t know if people are listening. Some people have tested positive for tuberculosis,” Lopez said in April. “This is a crisis that could have been avoided if, like with measles, we had introduced U.S.-standard vaccines to all immigrants being transported into the city of Chicago. Many of these people are with their children. They come to our schools, they attend our schools, and all of the vaccination requirements that our children are responsible for are waived for children of immigrant asylum seekers. , putting their families and communities at risk.”
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