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Archive number 20110508.126677
Publication date 08-MAY-2011
Subject PRO / RUS> Dengue fever - Lithuania (Vilnius)
Dengue fever - Lithuania (Vilnius)
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Date: May 8, 2011
From: ProMED-mail Corr. BA
Source: DELFI, 6 May 2011 [edited]
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In Vilnius, documented cases of haemorrhagic fever
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In Vilnius Infectious Diseases Hospital, serving in Santarishskih clinics
Vilnius University Hospital established a probable case of
dengue haemorrhagic fever.
The disease was diagnosed 32-year-old resident of Vilnius, returned from
Tourist trips to Brazil.
According to epidemiological analysis, the patient with his wife and two
friends 12 - 26 April this year, spent a vacation in the city of Natal (Brazil).
He returned to Lithuania on April 27 via Amsterdam and Riga.
The patient denied contact with potential carriers of disease, but
claimed to have been bitten by mosquitoes.
It was found that the first symptoms of the disease the man felt more in Brazil
but medical care to the local doctors did not address. He complained of fever
and malaise.
First, a patient suspected of having influenza, bronchitis, dehydration. However, later
it was found that an acute febrile illness.
[Comment Mod.NP. Dengue fever - an acute arbovirus diseases,
vectors are the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti. Source and reservoir
infection are wild animals, as well as the sick man.
The clinical course of the disease are distinguished feverish form of dengue
(Classical) and dengue haemorrhagic fever (occurs only in individuals
residing in endemic areas, and is due to reinfection
different types of dengue virus with the development of acute immune complex disease)
Specific means of treatment for dengue fever exists.
Fatality rate of 1 to 5%.
According to the WHO
2,5 mlrd.chel., 2 / 5 of world population, are at risk. On
Today the disease is endemic in 100 countries and tropical c
subtropical climates. Isolated imported cases of the disease is almost
annually registered in Europe, the USA and Canada.
In 2010, the first time in 65 years in the U.S. was an outbreak of fever
Dengue on the island of Key West, owned by Florida. As a result of importation
infection on the island of 28 people fell ill. - Mod.NP]