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  • Venezuela: 17 newborns died of diphtheria since April in the state of Bol?var according to reports of local media

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    Venezuela: 17 newborns die of diphtheria

    Date: 28 . September 2016
    Time: 15:09
    Departments: Venezuela , Science & Health

    Diphtheria is occurring mainly in childhood acute, contagious disease that is caused by an infection of the upper respiratory tract with the gram-positive Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Feared is secreted by these pathogens diphtheria toxin, which can cause life-threatening complications and sequelae. A protective vaccination by a toxoid vaccine is available, in the grips of a permanent crisis South American country Venezuela apparently not in sufficient quantity. According to reports of local media at least 17 infants have died from the disease since April this year in the state of Bol?var.

    In their message, the newspaper "Correo del Caron?" refers to statements of various doctors at the hospital "Centro de Salud Guaiparo". The medical scientists were therefore prohibited by the coordinator of the expanded immunization program of the Ministry of Health to inform the media about the death of the baby. Accordingly, 12 children died in Sifontes and five in Caron?. In order to stop the epidemic stop, is now a vaccination campaign be launched in schools and health centers in the region, at the urging of physicians and with significant delay.

    The disease was in Venezuela for two decades as a cut (to the government). According to the doctors at the hospital Guaiparo the recurrence of diphtheria could originate in Brazil. Due to the constant mobilization of Venezuelans in search of food and medicine thousands cross daily the border of the neighboring country and could have been infected there.

    The economic and political crisis in Venezuela has increasingly disastrous consequences for the population. The situation is so critical that old, babies, patients and children have died, although they could be helped. Incompetence, corruption and cronyism characterize the current image of a state, return to the teething problems, because there are no more vaccines. According to Freddy Ceballos, president of the Pharmaceutical Association "Pharmaceutical Federation of Venezuela" (Fefarven), the lack of medicines currently stands at 85% (Jan 70%).

    Diphtherie ist eine vor allem im Kindesalter auftretende akute, ansteckende Infektionskrankheit, die durch eine Infektion der oberen Atemwege mit dem grampositiven Corynebacterium diphtheriae hervorgerufen wird. Gefürchtet ist das von diesen Erregern abgesonderte Diphtherietoxin, das zu lebensbedrohlichen Komplikationen und Spätfolgen führen kann. Eine schützende Impfung durch einen Toxoidimpfstoff ist verfügbar, im von einer Dauerkrise gebeutelten südamerikanischen

    "Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
    -Nelson Mandela
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