Gert van der Hoek
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22/04/2010 | HEALTH
A boy and his aunt died of hantavirus in Salta
The deceased of 10 [year old] and the 60 [year old], arrived at the hospital in an "extremely serious" condition. Another family member is also hospitalized for the disease.
The two deceased, a 10 year old boy and his aunt, 60, lived in the city of Oran in the north of Salta and found hantavirus outbreak. Both died with a difference of days, reported the website Diario La Prensa.
Settlement inhabited the White River, west of the city, and were treated at the Hospital San Vicente de Paul of Oran with fifteen days apart.
Julio Moreno, manager of the facility, explained that the two patients who died during the last month, admitted with acute "extremely serious". He confirmed that there is also an admitted family of the deceased, but their evolution is favorable.
"In other years we had entire families who have contracted the virus," said the doctor, what he called the situation "is not novel."
According to Moreno's words, "at this time is usually recorded cases of hantavirus. It is now much easier to detect, he continued, because the provincial tropical disease laboratory is located in Oran.
The expert recalled that before the center was installed, "there were deaths that occurred because the wrong treatment was given to cases of hantavirus, which could be confused with dengue", because the symptoms of both diseases is similar, although the treatment they should provide is the exact opposite. "
Hantavirus is a disease transmitted by rodents in urban and suburban areas. The virus is transmitted to humans from air contaminated with urine, feces or saliva of the mouse.
http://www.infobae.com/salud/512627-101096-0-Un-nino-y-su-tia-jubilada-murieron-hantavirus-Salta
A boy and his aunt died of hantavirus in Salta
The deceased of 10 [year old] and the 60 [year old], arrived at the hospital in an "extremely serious" condition. Another family member is also hospitalized for the disease.
The two deceased, a 10 year old boy and his aunt, 60, lived in the city of Oran in the north of Salta and found hantavirus outbreak. Both died with a difference of days, reported the website Diario La Prensa.
Settlement inhabited the White River, west of the city, and were treated at the Hospital San Vicente de Paul of Oran with fifteen days apart.
Julio Moreno, manager of the facility, explained that the two patients who died during the last month, admitted with acute "extremely serious". He confirmed that there is also an admitted family of the deceased, but their evolution is favorable.
"In other years we had entire families who have contracted the virus," said the doctor, what he called the situation "is not novel."
According to Moreno's words, "at this time is usually recorded cases of hantavirus. It is now much easier to detect, he continued, because the provincial tropical disease laboratory is located in Oran.
The expert recalled that before the center was installed, "there were deaths that occurred because the wrong treatment was given to cases of hantavirus, which could be confused with dengue", because the symptoms of both diseases is similar, although the treatment they should provide is the exact opposite. "
Hantavirus is a disease transmitted by rodents in urban and suburban areas. The virus is transmitted to humans from air contaminated with urine, feces or saliva of the mouse.
http://www.infobae.com/salud/512627-101096-0-Un-nino-y-su-tia-jubilada-murieron-hantavirus-Salta