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Mexico and Argentina Intensify Measles Response With Mass Vaccination and Tracing

Officials are redirecting vaccination to workplaces, homes, pilgrimage routes to close gaps in protection.

Overview

  • Baja California ran a weekend macro vaccination drive in Mexicali after five related cases in one family, receiving 90,000 additional doses and deploying workplace and house‑to‑house brigades statewide.
  • The Mexicali cluster involves four children aged 1–9 and a 26‑year‑old adult, none vaccinated, who developed symptoms after a recent trip to Chiapas.
  • Mexico City will open six vaccination modules along the route to the Basilica of Guadalupe starting December 10 and conduct operations at the airport and bus terminals; the city has 12 confirmed cases, with 5,504 accumulated nationwide as of December 4.
  • Argentina confirmed by rt‑PCR a measles infection in a two‑year‑old from Santa Elena, Entre Ríos; the child is clinically stable in home isolation as contact follow‑up and blocking vaccination proceed.
  • Santa Fe activated an epidemiologic operation in Casilda tied to the Entre Ríos case, identifying contacts, updating vaccination, issuing regional alerts, and supporting a national epidemiological alert.