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PANAMA (AP) - A doctor died of dengue haemorrhagic fever in Panama, reported Friday Health Minister Franklin Vergara, who stressed on the serious threat posed by the febrile illness in the country.
"Es muy lamentable, pero esta es la situaci?n que tenemos en Panam?", expres? el funcionario a la prensa. "It's very unfortunate, but this is the situation we have in Panama," the official told reporters.
La v?ctima, un ginec?logo que tambi?n impart?a clases, se convirti? en el cuarto fallecimiento por dengue hemorr?gico en lo que va del 2009, a?o en que la enfermedad viral ha repuntado peligrosamente. The victim, a gynecologist who also taught, became the fourth death from hemorrhagic dengue so far in 2009, when the viral disease has picked up dangerously.
Alrededor de 1.200 casos de dengue cl?sico se han registrado este a?o, el doble de los contabilizados en 2008, seg?n las autoridades. About 1,200 cases of dengue fever have been recorded this year, double the number recorded in 2008, according to authorities. Se han confirmado al menos ocho del tipo hemorr?gico, la variante m?s peligrosa de la enfermedad, incluyendo los cuatro casos mortales. Have been confirmed at least eight of the hemorrhagic type, the most dangerous variant of the disease, including four fatalities.
La muerte del m?dico "indica lo peligroso que es ?sto. Son enfermedades que no conocen profesi?n, y la poblaci?n tiene que poner de su parte", eliminando potenciales criaderos del mosquito transmisor, explic? Vergara. The doctor's death "indicates how dangerous is this. These are diseases that know no profession, and people have to do their part" by eliminating potential mosquito breeding sites, said Vergara.
El dengue es transmitido por el mosquito Aedes aegypti y los s?ntomas del tipo cl?sico son fiebre, dolor de cabeza, dolor en los m?sculos, erupciones en la piel. Dengue is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito and symptoms of classic type are fever, headache, muscle pain, rash. En tanto que el dengue hemorr?gico se manifiesta con hemorragias, v?mitos con o sin sangre, desvanecimiento, pulso r?pido y d?bil. While hemorrhagic dengue is manifested by bleeding, vomiting with or without blood, fainting, rapid and weak pulse.
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