Respuesta :
Vaccination of non-immune individuals is considered the key strategy in limiting the spread of measles during outbreaks.
Explanation:
- Measles is an extremely contagious, severe disease caused by a virus in the paramyxovirus group and it is usually spread by direct contact and the air.
- The virus affects the respiratory tract, then circulates throughout the body. Measles is a human disease and is not recognized to occur in animals.
- Unvaccinated young children are at the biggest peril of measles and its complexities, including death.
- Unvaccinated pregnant women are also in danger.
- An Unvaccinated person (non-immune individual not vaccinated or was treated but didn't increase immunity) can be infected.
- Routine measles vaccination for non-immune children and adult individuals united with mass immunization operations in countries with high occurrence and death rates are key public health strategies to overcome global measles deaths.
- The measles vaccine has been in treatment for nearly 60 years. It is secure, efficient and economical.
- It costs around one US dollar to immunize a child against measles.
