Ongevaccineerde Franse vakantiegangers exporteren mazelen naar Costa Rica (tot voor kort mazelenvrij).
24 February 2019
15:48
”An unvaccinated French boy is suspected of having reintroduced measles to Costa Rica after the Central American country had been free of the disease for five years.
It is unclear why the five-year-old French tourist had never received a measles jab, but the arrival of the highly contagious, potentially deadly disease in a country that has been measles-free since 2014 is likely to increase anxiety about the effects of the worldwide anti-vaccine movement.
The reintroduction of measles to Costa Rica comes a month after the World Health Organisation warned that “vaccine hesitancy” is in the top ten of the worst health threats facing humanity in 2019.”
”The Costa Rica Star reported that the boy and his mother had not been vaccinated. The parents were said to have consulted a private doctor in Costa Rica about their son’s “rash”, and confirmed that other children who had attended the boy’s school in France had come down with measles.”
