Source: MISNA, in Italian, full text: http://www.misna.org/news.asp?a=1&IDLingua=2&id=288427 - Automatic translation
PERU
4/2/2011 9.13
AMAZON: VICTIMS AND THOUSANDS OF NEW SPECIES FOR INFECTIOUS FEVER 'dengue'
Medicine and Health, Brief
The government said the alert 'red' in the Amazonian department of Loreto, north-east for an outbreak of 'dengue', came from Brazil, which has so far caused 11 deaths - including seven children - and more than 10,000 cases of infection: has reported the Health Minister Oscar Ugarte, indicating that the strain identified in the region corresponds to a new kind of virus serotype 2 Asian-American came to Loreto with the migration of the Amazon from Manaus, capital of the Brazilian state Amazonas.
Transmitted by the mosquito 'Aedes aegypti' the 'dengue' Asian-American usually does not cause fever and headaches, especially as the bleeding, but a shock if not treated in time can lead quickly to death.
Ugarte announced that the alert has been declared a 'yellow' for the 'dengue' in another 14 of the 24 departments of Peru, the coast, the Andes and the Amazon.
Four cases of infection were counted in the capital Lima is in any case of people coming from the northern Amazon.
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PERU
4/2/2011 9.13
AMAZON: VICTIMS AND THOUSANDS OF NEW SPECIES FOR INFECTIOUS FEVER 'dengue'
Medicine and Health, Brief
The government said the alert 'red' in the Amazonian department of Loreto, north-east for an outbreak of 'dengue', came from Brazil, which has so far caused 11 deaths - including seven children - and more than 10,000 cases of infection: has reported the Health Minister Oscar Ugarte, indicating that the strain identified in the region corresponds to a new kind of virus serotype 2 Asian-American came to Loreto with the migration of the Amazon from Manaus, capital of the Brazilian state Amazonas.
Transmitted by the mosquito 'Aedes aegypti' the 'dengue' Asian-American usually does not cause fever and headaches, especially as the bleeding, but a shock if not treated in time can lead quickly to death.
Ugarte announced that the alert has been declared a 'yellow' for the 'dengue' in another 14 of the 24 departments of Peru, the coast, the Andes and the Amazon.
Four cases of infection were counted in the capital Lima is in any case of people coming from the northern Amazon.
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