Rita Sá Machado, Portugal’s director-general of health has rejected the possibility of a “large-scale” measles outbreak due to the country’s high vaccination rates. “We know that it may be possible, as has been the case since the beginning of the year, for us to have imported cases of measles, but we don’t foresee a major outbreak as is happening in other European countries that have (vaccination) rates that are frankly lower than ours,” she told reporters yesterday. Her comments follow warnings by the World Health Organisation that more than half of the world’s countries could be classified as being at high risk of a measles outbreak by the end of 2024, due to a general increase in cases.
“No chance of large-scale measles outbreak” in Portugal
