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Chagas' disease have killed at Bucaramanga airport operator
Investigates death of cargo-luggage at the airport Palonegro. Two colleagues of the victim are placed in clinics.
A meal infested with the parasite that transmits the deadly Chagas disease would have been the cause of death of a worker's Airport Palonegro of Lebrija (Santander), which serves Bucaramanga, and who died of a heart attack after suffering for two weeks vomiting, stomach pain and swelling of his body.
The disease, which until yesterday was all a mystery to health authorities in Santander and had generated fear among users of the airlines, was found initially in the analysis of tissue performed in Bogota by the National Health Institute (INS) to Armando Moreno Contreras, 23, baggage-loading of the company SAI Ltda, who died last Sunday.
According to a bulletin issued yesterday by the Ministry of Social Protection, preliminary tests detected Moreno in the presence of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas disease.
While awaiting a definitive study of the case, to be known tomorrow, the victim's family told that in the past two weeks the operator had suffered from stomach pain and swelling of his body and died of heart failure, pathology characteristic of disease that annually infects more than 17 million people on the planet, which kills 50,000.
Although Moreno was on several occasions to the hospital in Lebrija never found that illness suffered.
Luis Ernesto Garcia, secretary of Health in Santander, said that, apparently, the parasite would have entered the body of Moreno through a meal that would have digested at the airport.
Two colleagues of the victim, who would have eaten the same feed, are suffering the same symptoms and remain in intensive care at two clinics in Bucaramanga.
"We can not be alarmist and talk of an epidemic. Everything seems to indicate that it is of Chagas disease in cases that are very sporadic and are very rarely," said the secretary of health.
Ramon Ortlando Gelvez, government secretary of Lebrija, which is effectively ruled out a sort of quarantine in the town, since there are no other cases and in the region had never been presented this disease.
At the village, located 17 kilometers from Bucaramanga on the way to Barrancabermeja, arrived two experts sent by the National Institute of Health, with the support of physicians and epidemiologists from the Ministry of Health conducted field investigations and samples for laboratory to clarify the possible reasons that caused the disease.
Chagas' disease have killed at Bucaramanga airport operator
Investigates death of cargo-luggage at the airport Palonegro. Two colleagues of the victim are placed in clinics.
A meal infested with the parasite that transmits the deadly Chagas disease would have been the cause of death of a worker's Airport Palonegro of Lebrija (Santander), which serves Bucaramanga, and who died of a heart attack after suffering for two weeks vomiting, stomach pain and swelling of his body.
The disease, which until yesterday was all a mystery to health authorities in Santander and had generated fear among users of the airlines, was found initially in the analysis of tissue performed in Bogota by the National Health Institute (INS) to Armando Moreno Contreras, 23, baggage-loading of the company SAI Ltda, who died last Sunday.
According to a bulletin issued yesterday by the Ministry of Social Protection, preliminary tests detected Moreno in the presence of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas disease.
While awaiting a definitive study of the case, to be known tomorrow, the victim's family told that in the past two weeks the operator had suffered from stomach pain and swelling of his body and died of heart failure, pathology characteristic of disease that annually infects more than 17 million people on the planet, which kills 50,000.
Although Moreno was on several occasions to the hospital in Lebrija never found that illness suffered.
Luis Ernesto Garcia, secretary of Health in Santander, said that, apparently, the parasite would have entered the body of Moreno through a meal that would have digested at the airport.
Two colleagues of the victim, who would have eaten the same feed, are suffering the same symptoms and remain in intensive care at two clinics in Bucaramanga.
"We can not be alarmist and talk of an epidemic. Everything seems to indicate that it is of Chagas disease in cases that are very sporadic and are very rarely," said the secretary of health.
Ramon Ortlando Gelvez, government secretary of Lebrija, which is effectively ruled out a sort of quarantine in the town, since there are no other cases and in the region had never been presented this disease.
At the village, located 17 kilometers from Bucaramanga on the way to Barrancabermeja, arrived two experts sent by the National Institute of Health, with the support of physicians and epidemiologists from the Ministry of Health conducted field investigations and samples for laboratory to clarify the possible reasons that caused the disease.