Symptoms and danger of death
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The international tour ‘Women no longer cry World Tour’ by Shakira It is being a success. However, these concerts are also bringing some more tense moments, such as the impact of their indirects to Gerard Piqué and Clara Chía or their health problems in Peru, which led the singer to suspend one of her concerts.
Headlines to which more news is added, the United States Health Department He has alerted before a possible outbreak of measles, which originates one of the artist’s shows. The concert that Shakira gave at the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey last Thursday has generated great health concern After confirming that an infected person with measles attended the event
An alert that might seem exaggerated, but you have to understand that Measles is one of the most contagious viruses that existsNY in the United States a lot of population is not vaccinated. Thus, as explained by the World Health Organization (WHO), The measles infection index (Its basic reproduction number, R₀) is between 12 and 18. While that of other viruses also contagious, such as COVID-19, was between 2 and 3.
This means that A single infected person will spread average to 90% of people that are close to it, in the event that they are not immunized. Besides, This virus can remain in the air up to 2 hours After an infected person has coughed or sneezed.
Health alert after the Shakira show
Hence, the New Jersey Health Department has asked the more than 80,000 attendees who pay attention to symptoms. When they urinate to everyone who is not vaccinated to do so: “Vaccination remains the best form of protection,” contradicting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Regarding measles symptoms in adults, They usually appear between 7 and 14 days after the exhibition and include high fever, cough, nasal secretion and reddened eyes. Subsequently, you can develop a cutaneous eruption that begins on the face and extends to the rest of the body; as explained by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States.
A virus that will make 1 in 5 people who are not vaccinated require hospitalization, especially for pneumonia and encephalitis (brain inflammation), since Your complications can be very serious, even arriving at death. Therefore, the importance of vaccination is insisted, in the face of certain US policies. Before the measles vaccine, it is calculated that officially almost 3 million people died worldwide only in 1963.
Although, in Europe they are also alert, since the cases of measles of unvaccinated people grew in 2024, being the highest number in more than 25 years. In Spain the vaccination rate is more than 95% of the population, which reflects the importance of information campaigns on How vaccines save lives, in the face of conspiracy theories.