Congress of Paraguay approves of an "Emergency" for Dengue
Nota: Babelfish translation with minor changes.
Original article Aprueba congreso de Paraguay ley de emergencia por dengue
Congress of Paraguay approve law of emergency for dengue.
By: Notimex, Tuesday, 27 of February of 2007
Aedes will remain the alert by 60 days in order to eliminate the plague of the mosquito aegypti that transmits the disease.
Asuncio'n. The Congress of Paraguay today approved a law project that declares the national emergency situation during next the 60 days, to eliminate plagues of the mosquito aedes aegypti, that transmits the disease of dengue.
The Senate ratified east Monday the legal initiative, approved Thursday last through the House of Representatives, and it sent it to the Executive authority for his promulgation, although president Nicanor Duarte expressed his discord with the measurement.
The Paraguayan authorities have registered to the date a total of 13 thousand 400 patients of dengue, although according to estimations of the deprived sector of health, the number would arrive at 60 thousand cases.
Medical experts denounced journalists who have been stated "unusual and fatal" complications of the classic type of the disease, as a result of which add nine deaths from the 1 of last January.
"In this epidemic, the most important repercussion of deaths than we are having is not by the hemorr?gica form, but by a visceral call", the pathologist explained Jose Bellasai, who Integra one joins medical that studies the epidemic of this year.
Bellasai indicated that of 11 practiced autopsies to deceaseds with symptoms of dengue, it verified that nine were because of badly, of which five little presented/displayed visceral a defined habitual modality like dengue, that affects the heart, to the liver and the brain.
It needed that this febrile state transmitted by the same mosquito presents/displays symptoms different from the one from dengue hemorr?gico, and the picture includes cerebral miocarditis, encefalitis and problems. 15 of January the last, the government of Duarte decreed "alerts epidemiologist" due to the fast diffusion of dengue, with which he gave beginning to prevention campaigns which they did not give the results yearned for by the population.
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