The Health Bureau (SSM) said in a statement yesterday that it has recorded the second imported case of measles this year.
According to the statement, the patient is a 41-year-old local man who visited Phuket with his family on July 18-24. After returning to Macau, he came down with a fever on July 25 and a rash all over his body last Saturday. He went to the Island Emergency Station of the public Conde de S. Januário Hospital Centre in Taipa for treatment the next afternoon.
He consulted a doctor at the private Kiang Wu Hospital where he was hospitalised in the morning on Monday. He was confirmed to have measles by the bureau’s Public Health Laboratory yesterday, according to the statement.
