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Colombia rings alarm over infectious diseases from Venezuela
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-rings-alarm-over-infectious-diseases-from-venezuela/Colombia’s health authority issued a public health alert after confirming two cases of measles, a disease that was believed to be extinct until mass migration from Venezuela that began last year.
The concerns about a possible migration of infectious diseases were raised after two migrant children were found with measles in the northwest province of Antioquia.
Hundreds of thousands of people fled Venezuela over the past year to escape an economic crisis that caused much of the country’s public health system to collapse.
Colombia’s public health system was already under tremendous pressure due to widespread corruption and has began receiving foreign aid to attend the emergency.
