A 17-day-old baby is kept isolated in the San Rafael Hospital in Alajuela, after it was confirmed that the outbreak in her skin is caused by chickenpox.
Therefore, the authorities of the medical center transferred the newborn to an individual cubicle, and keep the neonatal service in quarantine, to prevent the 17 infants who were with her to have contact with the babies that are born in the next hours, because still it is not possible to discard that some of them also have the virus.
As a preventive measure, the hospital acquired 100 vaccines against the disease, to immunize parents of children in hospital who do not remember having applied the dose.
The babies of the Neonatology Service of that hospital would be up to 28 days under strict safety measures and care to detect any outbreak in time. Those children who no longer have a health risk will be discharged.