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Volume 25, Number 4—April 2019
Perspective

Resurgence of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Venezuela as a Regional Public Health Threat in the Americas

Alberto E. Paniz-MondolfiComments to Author , Adriana Tami, Maria E. Grillet, Marilianna Márquez, Juan Hernández-Villena, María A. Escalona-Rodríguez, Gabriela M. Blohm, Isis Mejías, Huníades Urbina-Medina, Alejandro Rísquez, Julio Castro, Ana Carvajal, Carlos Walter, María G. López, Philipp Schwabl, Luis Hernández-Castro, Michael A. Miles, Peter J. Hotez, John Lednicky, J. Glenn Morris, James Crainey, Sergio Luz, Juan D. Ramírez, Emilia Sordillo, Martin Llewellyn, Merari Canache, María Araque, and José Oletta
Author affiliations: Clínica IDB Cabudare, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas IDB, Cabudare, Venezuela (A.E. Paniz-Mondolfi, M. Márquez, M.A. Escalona-Rodriguez, G.M. Blohm); Venezuelan Science Incubator, Barquisimeto, Venezuela (A.E. Paniz-Mondolfi, M. Márquez, M.A. Escalona-Rodríguez, G.M. Blohm, I. Mejías); University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands (A. Tami); Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela (A. Tami); Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas (M.E. Grillet, J. Hernández-Villena, A. Rísquez); Universidad Centrooccidental Lisandro Alvarado, Barquisimeto (M. Márquez); University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA (G.M. Blohm, J. Lednicky, J.G. Morris Jr.); Rotary International, Houston, Texas, USA (I. Mejías); Sociedad Venezolana de Puericultura y Pediatría, Caracas (H. Urbina-Medina); Sociedad Venezolana de Salud Pública/Red Defendamos la Epidemiología Nacional, Caracas (J. Castro, A. Carvajal, C. Walter, J. Oletta); Sociedad Venezolana de Infectología, Caracas (M.G. López); University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (P. Schwabl, L. Hernández-Castro, M. Llewellyn); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (M.A. Miles); Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine, Houston (P.J. Hotez); Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane/FIOCRUZ, Manaus, Brazil (J. Crainey, S. Luz); Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia (J.D. Ramírez); Mount Sinai Saint Luke’s, New York, New York, USA. (E. Sordillo); Hospital de Niños José Manuel de los Ríos, Caracas (M. Canache); Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela (M. Araque)

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Figure 2

States affected by (A) measles and (B) diphtheria (blue), Venezuela, 2017–2018. Circles indicate neighboring countries reporting imported and autochthonous cases of these 2 diseases. Reclamation zone is a territory under dispute between Guyana and Venezuela.

Figure 2. States affected by (A) measles and (B) diphtheria (blue), Venezuela, 2017–2018. Circles indicate neighboring countries reporting imported and autochthonous cases of these 2 diseases. Reclamation zone is a territory under dispute between Guyana and Venezuela.

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