1. Confirmed measles cases following the
interruption of endemic transmission
The Americas, *
N=1,966
Rate= 1.9 x 1,000,000 population
N=1,369
Number of confirmed cases
Rate per 1,000,000 population
N=473
N=613
The distribution of confirmed measles cases following the interruption of endemic measles transmission clearly shows a period of 8 years between , with an annual average of 153 cases per year. However, since 2011 we started to face a big number of imported measles cases with many outbreaks in some of the larger countries of our Region like Brazil, Canada and The United States. The higher rate of confirmed cases was reached in 2014 with 1.9 cases per million people, which still is lower than the rate of 5 per million people established as a milestone by the World Health Assembly in 2010.
N=143
N=59
Source: ISIS, MESSS and country reports to FGL-IM/PAHO.
*Data as of epidemiological week 33, 2016.