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July 20, 2022
by NEWS DESK
The Argentina Ministry of Health of the Nation reports that a 8-year-old girl who lived with her family in the Futaleufú department, in the province of Chubut, died of hantavirus. The confirmation of this endemic event in the region was made from the Pediatric Service and the Laboratory of the Hospital Zonal de Esquel.
The Epidemiology Directorate of the province of Chubut notified the national Epidemiology Directorate of the case and reported that the girl had started with abdominal pain, fever and vomiting on July 8 and was taken to a consultation with a local effector.
Given the persistence of abdominal pain and fever, on July 12 a consultation was held at the Esquel hospital where she was admitted to the intensive care unit. There she had a first test with positive results for hantavirus and she was confirmed the next day by molecular tests in the Esquel hospital laboratory. The patient presented an unfavorable evolution and she died on July 13 in the morning.
The provincial epidemiology team is conducting epidemiological investigations to control the focus and identifying close contacts in order to implement control measures.
... There is also evidence of person-to-person transmission, and therefore secretions and other human fluids should be considered potentially dangerous.
The first symptoms are similar to flu: fever 38°C, muscle aches, chills, headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea without upper airway involvement.
by NEWS DESK
The Argentina Ministry of Health of the Nation reports that a 8-year-old girl who lived with her family in the Futaleufú department, in the province of Chubut, died of hantavirus. The confirmation of this endemic event in the region was made from the Pediatric Service and the Laboratory of the Hospital Zonal de Esquel.
The Epidemiology Directorate of the province of Chubut notified the national Epidemiology Directorate of the case and reported that the girl had started with abdominal pain, fever and vomiting on July 8 and was taken to a consultation with a local effector.
Given the persistence of abdominal pain and fever, on July 12 a consultation was held at the Esquel hospital where she was admitted to the intensive care unit. There she had a first test with positive results for hantavirus and she was confirmed the next day by molecular tests in the Esquel hospital laboratory. The patient presented an unfavorable evolution and she died on July 13 in the morning.
The provincial epidemiology team is conducting epidemiological investigations to control the focus and identifying close contacts in order to implement control measures.
... There is also evidence of person-to-person transmission, and therefore secretions and other human fluids should be considered potentially dangerous.
The first symptoms are similar to flu: fever 38°C, muscle aches, chills, headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea without upper airway involvement.
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