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Argentina: 2010 dengue cases

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Source: http://momento24.com/en/2010/01/17/a-total-of-60-cases-of-dengue-confirmed-in-argentina/


A total of 60 cases of dengue confirmed in Argentina
Posted on17 January 2010 at 11:59

National Health Ministry of Argentina reported that since August 1, there is people suffering from dengue in five provinces. Missions is the province which has major problems, with 50 patients.

A new wave of dengue virus serotype 1 (den1) emerged in Puerto Iguaz?, Misiones. The city is on high alert since mid December there were 50 patients have tested positive, 20 of them, reported in January.

In the city of Buenos Aires 4 cases were confirmed, while in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Corrientes, Entre Rios and Santa Fe were 6 cases in total.

?The local circulation of dengue virus is now confined to the northern province of Misiones, which is the area in contact with Paraguay, where there are 178 confirmed dengue cases,? Sergio Sosa Estani said from the National Health Ministry.

?In the rest of the country are cases of people who were infected with dengue in Misiones province or in other countries,? he added.
 
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Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/health/2010-02/20/c_13180728.htm

Nearly 1,000 dengue cases reported in Argentina, Paraguay
English.news.cn 2010-02-20 11:04:53

BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Argentine health authorities on Friday reported about 500 dengue cases in the country, while the number of people infected with the fever in neighboring Paraguay reached 477.

In Argentina, most of the dengue cases were registered in the northeastern provinces including Misiones, Chaco, Corrientes and Santa Fe.

In Misiones alone,424 cases were reported.

Cases were also reported in Buenos Aires province and the capital city of the country.

Meanwhile, Paraguayan health authorities said a total of 477 dengue cases were registered out of 1,653 patients with symptoms of dengue.

The health authorities urged people to cooperate on the eradication of the mosquito carrier of dengue and said the number of patients has increased due to the weather conditions.

Dengue, an incurable endemic disease in tropical areas, is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito which breeds in stagnant water. Symptoms of dengue are high fever, weakness and bone pain.
 
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CONFIRM FIRST CASE OF DENGUE IN THIS YEAR CATAMARCA
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The first case of dengue this year in Catamarca was confirmed today by provincial health authorities, who indicated that the victim is a woman of 61, who recently traveled to missions.

The Director of Preventive Medicine, Marisa N?blega said Telam that upon returning from that province, she began to show symptoms of dengue, so samples were taken necessary and appropriate tests were performed.

The studies were done in a hospital in the provincial capital and then on the official level, where the condition was confirmed, though "still remains to identify the phenotype of the virus, said the official.

N?blega stressed that tests were also carried out to family and friends who had traveled with her, which showed no infection.

The dengue patient lives in the neighborhood police in the west of the capital, whose home and surrounding area were "blocked" from the Ministry of Health.
http://noticias.terra.com.ar/confir...e5a2c75b55f8a210VgnVCM4000009bf154d0RCRD.html
 
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Argentina is "worried" for the pandemic of edengue in the region

Buenos Aires, on September 3 (EFE) .-The minister of Health of Argentina, Juan Manzur, said today that it is "worried" for the pandemic of fastidiousness in South American countries, which forces to reinforce the measurements of prevention of the illness transmitted by mosquitoes.


" Although this year in our country the impact was very much minor, the fastidiousness is present in the region, there are information that worry us that they come from Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia ", it pointed in an official bulletin on his visit to a province of the Argentine north. " In Brazil there is information of this year that indicates that to the moment approximately 950.000 cases of fastidiousness would register ", mentioned Manzur after remembering that Argentina shares a zone of border with this country and with Paraguay, in that " it is necessary to carry to extremes the measurements of precaution " .En the first half of 2009, the fastidiousness affected approximately 50.000 persons and caused a dozen of deaths in Argentina, in the biggest epidemic of this illness that has registered in the country. This year no decease complained, but yes it was necessary to declare the yellow alert in the province of Missions, on the border with Paraguay, for the sprout uncovered in the nearby country. On the other hand, the holder of the portfolio of Health made sure that they are " intensifying the tasks of epidemiologic alertness and reinforcing the vaccination " against the measles, which affected in August four persons in the province of Buenos Aires,
sprout that provoked the sanitary alert because it was doing a decade that was not registering this illness in Argentina. Although they were " very few cases ", Manzur warned that it is important " to reinforce the vaccination in the children and adults who are not protected because this is a very contagious illness, which it puts in high irrigation to our creatures ".

http://es.noticias.yahoo.com/9/20100903/tsc-argentina-esta-preocupada-por-la-pan-539a483.html
 
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http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/ac.../evaluan-4-casos-de-dengue_103330_201473.html

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Print Edition THREE CONFIRMED
Evaluate 4 cases of dengue
On Writing Central | - The Times - 11/12/2010

Departmental Health Service (Headquarters) of Cochabamba, Candido Muruchi, reported yesterday that confirmed the first cases of dengue in the tropics.

"I must tell that until now we have three confirmed positive cases as a result of dengue disease," he told reporters.

He said that the infected are two women of 12 and 10 years old and a boy of 24 in the town of Shinahota.

He reported that assessment are four suspected cases.

Locations director said that after confirming cases of dengue were sprayed at the homes of patients to kill any mosquito breeding source transmitter of the disease.

Dengue is an acute viral disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which breeds in standing water.
 
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