Argentina: Dengue cases

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Source: http://momento24.com/en/2009/04/29/federal-capital-five-confirmed-indigenous-dengue-cases/

Capital Federal: Five indigenous dengue cases confirmed
Posted on 29 April 2009 at 10:50

Now the confirmed cases in the Federal Capital total seven, the tests resulted positive. They were carried out in the Maiztegui Institute of the town of Pergamino, which also confirmed the existence of 99 not indigenous cases in the Capital.

In this opportunity, they did not disclose the towns were the cases registered not to generate fear in the population.

The Health Department announced the new quantity of people affected by dengue in the country, which is of 22 000 people and 600 in study.

They clarified that, approximately, 10 000 cases belong to the province of the Chaco.

 

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Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://en.mercopress.com/2009/05/12...ue-cases-reported-in-the-capital-buenos-aires

Tuesday, May 12th 2009 - 3:00 am UTC
More autochthonous dengue cases reported in the capital Buenos Aires

Argentine sanitary officials confirmed Monday five new cases of autochthonous dengue in the capital Buenos Aires and another in the province of Buenos Aires while the official figures from the federal ministry of Public Health indicate that there are 23.470 confirmed infections from the mosquito transmitted disease.

According to Ministry sources with the new reported cases the total number of confirmed autochthonous infections in metropolitan Buenos Aires is 12 and in the province of Buenos Aires, 14. Meanwhile to the north of Argentina, in the impoverished province of Chaco, the official figure is 10.200 cases so far this year. However Governor Jorge Capitanich said the ?epidemics has peaked and is sliding downwards?.

The Epidemiology Office from the province of Buenos Aires reported that the new case was located in the country of Quilmes to the south of the capital. Furthermore there are 86 ?imported? cases (from other provinces) while the number of ?doubtful? last Friday at 545.

Another Northern Province La Rioja reported that ?according to the epidemiologic survey, the dengue peak occurred April 15th, but has seen since begun descending?, said Gustavo Graselli, head of the provincial Health Ministry. Graselli confirmed 432 cases in La Rioja since the beginning of 2009, most of them in the provincial capital.

The dengue virus is transmitted by the Aedes Aegyptus mosquito and proliferates in rainy seasons, with larvae breeding in stagnant contaminated water. However the most common strain is not deadly expect for the so called vulnerable population, babies and elderly.

A relatively common tropical disease it is endemic in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and some northern parts of Argentina. This year the epidemic has been particularly severe in Bolivia (bordering with north Argentina) with over 80.000 cases reported. Paraguay this season has also suffered but is far less intense than a year ago.

Argentine epidemiologists have warned that the combination of poor sanitary conditions plus climate change will most probably turn dengue into an endemic epidemic, even in the capital Buenos Aires and its metropolitan area.

 

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Source: http://momento24.com/en/2009/05/11/dengue-2-cases-in-palermo-more-than-300-all-over-the-city/

Dengue: 2 cases in Palermo, more than 300 all over the City
Posted on 11 May 2009 at 22:26

The director of the Institute of Zoonosis Luis Pasteur, Oscar Lencinas, said that the treatment of the patients ?is going to be treated isolating the patients in their own houses?. The infected are 302, 15 of them are indigenous. ?They are not hemorrhagic dengue, but they are cases of feverish dengue?.

Oscar Lencinas confirmed two new cases of dengue in Palermo, which join the 302 affected by the mosquito Aedes Aegypti. There are also 1008 suspicious cases.

In spite of the relevancy that took the H1N1, known as swine flu, in the City, the public sector continue with the campaign to prevent the infection of the mosquito.

In Palermo, a lot of people received flyers to prevent the illness.

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Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=334551&CategoryId=14093

More than 300 Dengue Cases in Buenos Aires

BUENOS AIRES ? The number of cases of dengue fever in Buenos Aires rose to 302 out of a total 23,470 in all Argentina, officials said Tuesday.

While the spread of the illness is slowing as winter begins in the Southern Hemisphere, experts warn that the number of cases in the country could rise again when summer rolls around, and consequently recommend keeping preventive measures in place.

Most people with dengue in Buenos Aires got sick after traveling to the north, the part of Argentina hardest hit by the disease, which in the past few months had its worst outbreak in the nation?s history.

?The increase in cases was expected in the city as a consequence of tourist travel during the long (holiday) weekends,? the director of the Pasteur Institute of Buenos Aires, Oscar Lencinas, told the media.

Also expected is the confirmation of another 1,080 suspected cases that are being analyzed at the Pergamino medical center outside the Argentine capital.

The northern provinces of Salta, Chaco and Catamarca are the most affected by the disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which to date this year has caused at least five deaths.

Independent organizations warn that the number of dengue patients in the country is actually double the 23,470 officially reported.

Meanwhile, Sandra Mendoza resigned last Friday from her position as health minister for Chaco province after the controversy sparked by her performance during the epidemic.

Opposition leaders and activists had accused the now-ex-minister of being ?slow to react? to the spreading disease. EFE

 

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Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=335076&CategoryId=14093

Argentina Dengue Death Toll Hits Six

BUENOS AIRES ? A Bolivian man has died from dengue in the northern province of Salta, raising the death toll from the disease this year in Argentina to six, the press reported over the weekend, citing health officials.

The man, whose identity has not been released, died last Thursday from ?dengue shock syndrome,? a complication associated with the disease?s hemorrhagic strain, in the city of Tartagal, Salta Health Ministry officials told the El Tribuno newspaper.

Dengue is a serious viral disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito that is characterized by high fever, intense headaches, muscle pain, gastro-intestinal problems and rashes.

Hemorrhagic dengue, in addition to having symptoms associated with classic dengue, like fever, headaches and joint pain, can also produce internal bleeding.

The 33-year-old man, who had a high fever, went to a clinic in the city of Salvador Mazza, near the border with Bolivia, where his case was classified as possibly being dengue and blood was drawn for a test.

Argentina has experienced the worst dengue outbreak in its history in recent months, with nearly 25,000 people infected and six deaths, three of which occurred in Salta, which borders Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile.

Neighboring Bolivia is experiencing the worst dengue outbreak in the past 20 years, with more than two dozen deaths reported and tens of thousands of people infected.

Two years ago, 17 people died and some 27,000 others were infected in a dengue epidemic in Paraguay. EFE

 

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Source: http://momento24.com/en/2009/05/22/la-plata-new-case-of-dengue-fever/

La Plata: new case of dengue fever
Posted on 22 May 2009 at 12:16

The Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires province detected a new case in a six year old girl who had traveled with her family to Bolivia, and contracted the virus outside the province.

Health authorities reported that family members have no symptoms of the disease.
So far there were 91 indigenous and 14 imported cases, whereas in study are 617 people who showed symptoms of dengue.

The new case brings to 8 the number of infected in the provincial capital.

 

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Source: http://www.plagasonline.com.ar/prensa/detalle.php?id=936

Google translation:

22.05.2009 | SOURCE: Infobae.com

There are so many suffering from dengue infected as in the Chaco of influenza A in the World

The government report that reflects the release of dengue cases in the Chaco in the last seven days showed that 94 new patients were found infected. Thus, the patients so far in the epidemic reached 10,673, while the other analyzes 1982.

Meanwhile, yesterday presented at local health facilities nine other people with symptoms of having contracted the virus, the site reported Chacas.com.ar.

"On Thursday 14th, there were 29 new cases, 15 on Friday, 16 cases, 16 on Saturday, five cases; last Sunday, two cases on Monday, 18 Tuesday, 13 Wednesday and today, nine reports," said The announcement, released yesterday.

On the other hand, reiterated that the document is considered "confirmed cases" to those with positive results of laboratory and who meet the clinical-epidemiological criteria.

He also reported that the Central Laboratory of the Resistance and the town of President Saenz Pena studies every two days for new patients infected.

Influenza A virus, according to WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) raised the number of cases of influenza A infection throughout the world to 11,034, indicating that there are 85 dead.

He added that most of the 791 new cases were reported to be in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Source: Infobae.com

 

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Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/30/content_11455628.htm

Argentina's dengue cases rise to 25,833
www.chinaview.cn 2009-05-30 09:22:35

BUENOS AIRES, May 29 (Xinhua) -- The number of dengue cases in Argentina reached 25,833, Argentine Health Ministry said on Friday.

Despite 3,107 more people have been infected with the disease since the last report was released on April 30, Argentine authorities said the dengue epidemic is being controlled.

From February to April, the country has seen a large number of mosquitoes of all kinds, including the Aedes aegypti, which is a carrier of dengue.

The northern province of Chaco, where 10,796 cases have been registered, is the worst hit area in the country. While in Catamarca, another northern province, 8,703 cases have been registered.

 

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Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://momento24.com/en/2009/07/13/dengue-again-in-mid-winter/

Dengue is back in mid-winter
Posted on 13 July 2009 at 10:03

In the province of Salta two cases were accounted 15 days ago, declared Mario Luis Arias, manager of St. Vincent de Paul Hospital in the town of Oran, both patients are safe.

In the province of Catamarca four young patients are being studied after showing symptoms 10 days ago in the town of Recreo.

Health authorities said that ?given the temperatures of weeks ago, more usual in spring than winter season, there may have been a resurgence or even a mutation of the mosquito, which would have adapted to lower temperatures.
In the province of Catamarca, until May, there had been 9800 cases reported.

 

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Source: http://www.lacapital.com.ar/contenidos/2009/07/19/noticia_0002.html
(Santa Fe Province)

Google translation:
THE OTHER EPIDEMIC
They fear a resurgence of dengue more powerful when the heat again


The task of descacharrado in homes is a priority in Rosario and the rest of the province. (Photo: C. Mutti Lovera)

In the middle of a pandemic of influenza A, the provincial Ministry of Health activated the alarm against the possibility that an outbreak of dengue strongest barely cold decline. Therefore, starting next August descacharrado tasks and eliminating mosquito breeding grounds, along with a new social awareness campaign. The fear is that the excess of the reported cases last summer, which left more than 1,300 infected throughout Santa Fe.

The diagnosis of the health teams of the Gray House agrees with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which called on Latin American countries to increase resources for prevention and combat dengue, and warnings infectologists and epidemiologists, who predict or more of the cases registered in the province.

"There is the possibility of severe dengue, stronger than feverish. Not to be out in front of a new epidemic. If we eliminate the reservoirs of the country and enter another epidemic, it is highly probable. There are three serotypes (infectious microorganisms) from the disease circulating in South America, "said Capital in the provincial deputy minister of Health, D?bora Ferrandini.

Red light. The biggest concern is that the resurgence of evil transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito leading to cases of dengue shock: the onset is sudden, with fever and headache, but between the fourth and sixth days there other indicators.

Then they can occur suddenly in a low temperature, severe abdominal pain and bleeding gums, nose, skin or other sites (for increased vascular permeability and attack specific organs). And in some cases, respiratory problems and inflammation of the myocardium.

The dengue shock occurs mainly in children under 10 years, but can affect any age, and the convalescence is prolonged. Mortality ranges from 6 to 30 percent.

Meanwhile, expect the larvae in pots, pools or other pools the arrival of the first heat and rain to complete their development into mosquitoes in the coming months that could transmit a virus more powerful, especially for people who contracted disease.

Ferrandini explained that in August they will face "a work that will engage the public in each region, consisting of a descacharrado in the hands of neighbors and the state." A task that will "modalities defined by the district" and create together a townships, municipalities and civic organizations.

As there is no vaccine against the disease, the key is to finish with the vector and its breeding potential, which is why the authorities insisted that Santa Fe should take this as a daily habit.

"We have to meet the objective of the visit all homes and public spaces to eliminate the sharing of water reservoirs and eggs of the mosquito," summarized the staff member. The other axis of the plan will focus on training of health personnel, according Ferrandini stressed: "We need to deepen what is learned about the identification of cases and epidemiological surveillance, especially against a possible severe dengue according to the probable existence of three serotypes.

As stock of what has been lived, Health found that in urban areas, especially the city of Rosario and Santa Fe, the descacharrado had a significant impact at the end of the summer.

Challenge. The deputy found that the latest outbreak of dengue as the current pandemic of influenza A "solidify the surveillance system in the province," while stressing "the degree of alertness and commitment of health personnel from such evils" .

As with influenza, Ferrandini reminded people the importance of prioritizing immediate notice to the doctor for any symptom of dengue
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Source: http://sdpnoticias.com/sdp/contenido/2009/07/30/457576

Dengue resurgence in Argentina
July 30, 2009 - 18:21 --

Buenos Aires, 30 Jul (Notimex) .- The dengue epidemic in Argentina, which this year is no longer leaving six people dead, reported a new outbreak as it continues in the country, the health crisis caused by the pandemic of human influenza .

Authorities in the northern provinces of Catamarca and Salta confirmed, in a surprising manner, they are studying new cases of dengue, a so-called "diseases of poverty" which is transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti.

The information generated by a new health alert as the South American country suffered in the first months of this year, the largest epidemic of dengue in the past three decades, with a total of 26 thousand cases recognized.

Moreover, the data were revived fears that the virus has mutated and now resist all seasons, as the infection is usually presented during periods of heat, and now the country is immersed in the frigid southern winter.

After two months without any record of new cases of dengue reported Catamarca contagion of a disease that is endemic in northern Argentina, especially in the poorest localities.

According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), during the first half of this year in America there were 30 thousand cases of dengue and 200 deaths.

The Ministry of Health of Argentina had terminated the epidemic in April, just at the beginning of the pandemic of human influenza.

Official figures have confirmed six deaths due to dengue, although there were more than a dozen deaths to the families of the victims reported that they had been caused by dengue, but could not verified.

The outbreak began in January last year in Bolivia and was sent to northern Argentina, but increased alert when the province of Buenos Aires reported that dengue had been shifted to the center of the country.

The former Minister of Health argentina, Graciela Oca?a asked to declare a national health emergency, which was refused by the president Cristina Fernandez to not affect the ruling party in elections on June 28 last.

Now, without having yet determined a new pandemic that left more than 200 deaths and thousands of infections, the Argentine government tries to counter the sudden outbreak of dengue fever because it may tighten again as temperatures increase.

 

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Source: http://www.telam.com.ar/vernota.php?tipo=N&idPub=156596&id=305601&dis=1&sec=1

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9-08-03 00:00:00
18:40 - SOCIETY

Dengue: Friday approved the national plan


The Ministers of Health from all provinces will meet on Friday, under the COFESA to approve the National Plan for Prevention and Control of Dengue and Yellow Fever, an initiative by the technical staff of the ministry in charge of Juan Manzur.

The Plan sought input from the various jurisdictions of scientists and civil society.

Pointed out in dialogue with the minister Telam Manzur, who noted that "for the preparation of this plan and in the context of extensive discussion, we've compiled the suggestions and recommendations from health experts and decision makers in each province, and we expect him taps final meeting before it COFESA consideration of the President of the Nation. "

Among the institutions that made specific contributions include the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO / WHO), the National Academy of Medicine and the National Council of Research, Science and Technology (CONICET) of Argentine Companies Infectious Diseases, Intensive Care, Pediatrics, Medicine, Microbiology, and the Latin American Society of Travel Medicine, and all the institutes under the Ministry of Health of the Nation.

Were also consulted experts from the San Juan Jorge Mu?iz Hospital (Chief of Intensive Care), Alfredo Seijo (Head of Zoonoses) and Tomas Orduna (Head of Regional Pathology and Tropical Medicine), as well as infectologists Stamboulian Daniel, director of the Foundation Centro de Estudios INFECTIOUS DISEASES (FUNCEI).

Among the key aspects of the plan include measures to be taken both to prevent and to control the problem.

Provide its strategic surveillance, to detect and report in a timely manner cases of dengue and severe dengue, to quickly identify the recurrence of the disease and to guide control measures.

In addition, patient care, to ensure early detection and implementation of appropriate treatment of all cases of dengue, both public and private sectors and social security in all health services to reduce the occurrence of severe cases , hospitalizations and prevent death.

Provision is also integrated entomological control measures to detect and monitor the presence of the vector Aedes aegypti and entomological and lessen the risk.

In the environmental aspect, the initiative will promote environmental management of the territory in order to reduce the risk of transmission, while also enabled virological laboratories for the purpose of timely detection of viral circulation and to determine the serotypes / genotypes circulating. This will be able to guide the actions of prevention and control.

Finally, it will develop a plan for social communication and community participation to improve the knowledge, attitudes and practices of the people and institutions with respect to the prevention and control of dengue.

In another vein, Manzur said that during the bilateral meeting of ministers of Argentina and Chile which will run this Thursday at the Palacio San Martin from the Foreign Ministry, will discuss with his trans Alvaro Erazo Latorre health aspects of borders, and exchange updated data on the prevalence of disease on both sides of the ridge.

On Saturday, meanwhile, the head of the national health participate in Quito, Ecuador, of the extraordinary meeting of the South American and Health Coordinating Committee, which will meet in the hours prior to the Meeting of Heads of State of UNASUR.

The reason for the meeting is moving forward with concrete actions in the region to improve access and availability of vaccine and antivirals for influenza A H1N1, and especially the implementation of mechanisms for joint negotiation between the countries for their purchase.

Manzur will remain in the capital awaiting the arrival of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who will participate on Monday, 10 - the plenary session with the rest of the first leaders of the region.

 

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Source: http://www.24con.com/conurbano/nota/25600-El-Gobierno-se-adelanta-a-un-nuevo-brote-de-dengue/

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The Government anticipates a new outbreak of dengue
The Minister of Health, Juan Manzur, announced a plan to approach the problem of dengue fever. " For its part, the Ministry of Health allocated 15 thousand Bonaerense bio to add to the water tanks in schools.

Minister of Health of the Nation, Juan Manzur, announced today that the Federal Health Council unanimously approved a plan to approach the problem of dengue "and highlighted the consensus reached by all the provincial ministers.

"The plan is comprehensive and integrated approach, developed by an instruction of the President with technical and strictly scientific, and coordinating actions with the provincial ministers, the scientists, the Academy and the powers," said Manzur.

The head of the reported health
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at a press conference at the ministerial headquarters where ministers from the different districts made their contributions before and reached the consensus that were then submitted to the chief of staff, Anibal Fernandez, who was part of the Council meeting. Manzur emphasized that although "Health is a rectory in the strategy, it will be an interdepartmental approach, and each area will have something to say and contribute, and the ministers already pledged their help."

"We analyzed (at the meeting) all stages the prebrote and regrowth, and also what happened to us here. And we share information and find out Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay and Brazil fundamentally, with more than 400,000 infected," said .

The minister appealed to the "social responsibility" of citizens and officials and found that the program will be successful "and will reduce the impact of the disease, which had 26,000 infected and 5 dead.

"The plan we present is not isolated or spasmodic action poses, but is an integral plan for the entire country, and the status of NEA and NOA will only be considered," he added.

Manzur tonight announced he was traveling to Quito, where the meeting of the presidents of South America by UNASUR, tomorrow and Sunday regional health ministers would meet to discuss among others the subject of influenza A.

"The proposal is the relaxation of argentina patents to make progress in the manufacture of vaccines, and to raise the OPS is to manage the purchase of vaccines for the entire region in terms of what each country prompted, and generate I bought a scale of cheaper costs, "he said.

In this regard, Manzur said that were discussed at the Council meeting and stated that "the curve of influenza A is certified and is clearly downward throughout, not only in Capital and Greater Buenos Aires."

"This does not mean that we do not have viral circulation, we have less, in which levels of warning and preventive measures must continue," he said.

The strategic plan are: entomological and epidemiological surveillance, patient care, social communication and community involvement, detection of viral circulation and yellow fever vaccination.

Speaking to Telam, Health Minister mendocino, Sergio Saracco, emphasized the unanimity reached in the Council and stressed that the plan focuses heavily on prevention, which is the descacharrado and larvicides.

"Fumigation is bad for the environment and the pollination, it is good that is left as a last resort," he added.



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What measures taken in Buenos Aires

Before the influenza hit port in our country, Argentina only spoke of the danger of infection of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, commonly known as Dengue. So that the insect causing hundreds of deaths around the Northern Territory and later began attacking Buenos. However, the influenza virus, of course, took him out of the ups.

Before termination of cases of influenza, dengue returned to be part of the heavy agenda of the health portfolio bonaerense to take measures to prevent the spread of the mosquito.


A provision of 15,000 bio, which does not affect health, will be distributed in schools of Buenos Aires to add to the water tanks and prevent dengue from an agreement signed today by Health Minister Claudio Zin, and the director general Education of the province, Mario Oporto.

"We put the school system to the area of Health and at the same time, we need the area of Health," said Oporto to sign the agreement in the Zonal Hospital of The Chronicles of Dam, in the district of Ensenada, where both officials shared a press conference.

"Prevention of dengue is a step forward. We had a very good experience at the beginning of this year and last year, and now we are going to deepen," said Oporto.
Zin said that schools need to preserve water in large containers must add larvicide in dosage to prevent the display
mosquito. "

Because of future hot and humid climates that are coming together to spring, this plan was created to prevent a new outbreak of the disease.

Source: Telam

 

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Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=341058&CategoryId=14093

Argentina and Bolivia to Fight Dengue on Border

BUENOS AIRES ? Argentina and Bolivia will work together starting this week in the fight against dengue in the region along their common border, Argentine Health Minister Juan Manzur said Sunday.

Manzur said he met Saturday with his Bolivian counterpart, Jorge Tapia, in Quito, where the Health Council of the Union of South American nations, or Unasur, convened.

?Yesterday, we had a meeting with Tapia, who has wide experience in the matter, and we coordinated joint action along both borders, which will get under way next week, probably on Aug. 14 or 15,? Manzur told the official Telam news agency.

?The idea is to develop a joint undertaking ... combining efforts, sharing experiences and tightening links even more? with Bolivia, the Argentine health minister said.

?We?ve made a commitment with Minister Manzur and we have big common objectives and a long border we have to take care of and preserve. Therefore, we must carry out a joint (program),? Tapia said.

The health ministers held a bilateral meeting in Quito after participating in the meeting of ministers of the Unasur Health Council, which agreed to ask the World Health Organization to guarantee the distribution of the vaccine to combat the AH1N1 flu virus to the most vulnerable sections of the public.

Argentina this year faced the biggest dengue epidemic in its history, with 50,000 people becoming infected ? a dozen of whom died ? and, experts say, the disease could resurge in the coming months once the austral winter ends.

 

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Source: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MYAI-7V32KQ?OpenDocument

Argentina: Landslide DREF Operation No. MDRAR004 Interim Final Report

Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Date: 18 Aug 2009

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Glide No. MS-2009-000041-ARG

The International Federation's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) is a source of un-earmarked money created by the Federation in 1985 to ensure that immediate financial support is available for Red Cross and Red Crescent response to emergencies. The DREF is a vital part of the International Federation's disaster response system and increases the ability of national societies to respond to disasters.

Summary: CHF 164,000 (USD 141,205 or EUR 109,808) was allocated from the Federation's Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) on 18 February 2009 to support the Argentine Red Cross in delivering immediate assistance to 1,000 families (5,000 beneficiaries).

The Argentine Red Cross completed the objective of providing 1,000 families (approximately 5,000 people) with relief items and health services including psychosocial support and dengue prevention measures.

During this emergency there were a significant amount of bilateral contributions from partners in-country. In addition, thanks to the assistance of humanitarian organizations and contributions from the general public, an additional objective for dengue prevention was included in light of the current outbreak experienced in the affected province. There was an increase of target beneficiaries from 600 to 1,000 families who received direct help from this project. In total 50,100 people have been reached considering the indirect outreach programming. This objective did not result in an increase in the budget given that the Argentine Red Cross received discounts on relief items from local suppliers and also received many bilateral contributions from partners in-country.

This DREF final report has an interim financial report as there are pending working advances from the National Society. The final financial report will be made available once these working advances are cleared.

The situation

On 9 February 2009, heavy rainfall in the northern Argentine province of Salta caused a landslide of water, mud and wood remains. The landslide swept through the western mountains in the region closest to the Tartagal River into Tartagal city. The city is located in the north-eastern region of the province of Salta, approximately 369 km from the capital city of Salta in north-west Argentina. Additionally, a 50 metre long railroad bridge fell into the river aggravating the situation more since it created a dike in the Tartagal River.

This accumulation of water caused flooding in the city of Tartagal, affecting several peripheral neighbourhoods.

Tartagal has an approximate population of 60,000 inhabitants, of which 20,000 people were directly affected according to official reports. Argentine authorities indicated that 742 people were evacuated and placed in four temporary shelters, while another 1,200 people self evacuated. The landslide took the life of four people. The most heavily impacted neighbourhoods were Santa Maria and a settlement located west of the railroad bridge, known as Barrio Punta Saavedra. In addition, a major part of the urban area of the city was covered by mud, reaching in places a depth of up to 1.5 metres. Information on infrastructural damage indicated that 30 houses were destroyed and 300 more damaged, along with other reported losses of personal and commercial property. The majority of the houses damaged or destroyed were located in settlements near the Tartagal River and the houses were made of ceramic and reinforced cement blocks. These homes were damaged by mud and debris brought in by the landslide. Families lost their personal possessions including electrical appliances and furniture. The Provincial Housing Institute (Instituto de la Vivienda Provincial) initiated the reconstruction of the affected houses. The Tartagal municipality provided USD 4,000 to those families who lost everything and were in temporary shelters. This stipend is for the affected families to pay for rent for an alternative home. Most of the families returned to their previous affected homes and installed tents which were provided by the provincial government. The municipality installed bathrooms in the affected area since the sewer system was not working properly as a result of blockages of mud and debris.

 

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Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=341674&CategoryId=14093

Argentina?s Impoverished North Battles Ferocious Dengue Epidemic

By Maricel Seeger

JUJUY, Argentina ? Working like ?ants? against somber predictions, Argentina?s impoverished north is preparing to battle a renewed spread of dengue fever, which has hit the country with its worst epidemic in history this year.

Despite the lack of resources, health workers are visiting each home in the province of Jujuy with the aim of trying to prevent a resurgence of the disease in the area ? which has also been hit with the swine flu ? as the higher temperatures of the Southern Hemisphere?s summer approach.

?It means that the people will have to adopt new customs to prevent dengue. The attitude changes take a long time,? Rosana Carrizo, a health official in the town of San Pedro, told Efe.

The high temperatures, the lack of water and proper sewage facilities all make the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue, quite a dangerous proposition in the extreme northern part of Argentina, a country where this year 50,000 people have been infected with the disease and about 10 have died, according to local organizations.

?The officials tell us that there can be no standing water. But it?s complicated because when there?s a lack of water you have to go out and collect it in containers,? Maria Figueroa ? a resident of the town, which has unpaved streets, small humble houses and summer temperatures exceeding 42 C (107 F) ? told Efe.

The combined task of health workers to raise the awareness of the residents about preventive actions and to inspect every home to eliminate standing water where the mosquito can breed is not an easy one in this town near the province?s so-called ?dengue route.?

?Next summer, we?re going to have hemorrhagic dengue ? the lethal variant of the disease ? as a consequence of the outbreak there was at the beginning of this year,? warned health worker and local resident Mirta Martinez, who also noted the lack of resources to deal with the problem in the area.

Her colleague Adriana Soria said that the fact that several residents travel regularly to shop in neighboring Bolivia, which also affected by dengue, serves to spread the disease.

Because Argentina shares ?this serious health problem? with Bolivia and Paraguay, the three countries have agreed on joint actions to combat the spread of the mosquito, Argentine Health Minister Juan Manzur told Efe, adding that last week he visited Jujuy to present the National Plan to Prevent and Control Dengue and Yellow Fever, another disease that regularly afflicts the zone.

?The economic factor is a very serious problem. There are a lot of unemployed people,? nurse Mario Gareca, who works in the San Pedro hospital, told Efe. This year, several cases of swine flu were treated at the hospital, but nationwide more than 100,000 people were infected and 404 died.

To these problems can be added Chagas disease, from which about 4 million Argentines suffer, many of them in the north, according to local organizations.

?I always buy mineral water to drink and cook with because we don?t trust (the local water supply),? said resident Carlos Escalante, who admitted however, that buying bottled water is expensive and therefore many people in the area cannot afford it.

Escalante has another advantage over his neighbors in that he lives quite close to the San Pedro hospital, while others living farther away have a difficult time getting to the health center on foot under the hot sun.

At the hospital entrance there is a drawing of the Aedes aegypti mosquito with the caption ?Guilty!? ? a clear indication of what the major worry these days is in the region. EFE

 

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Source: http://www.el-litoral.com.ar/leer_noticia.asp?IdNoticia=116644

Google translation:

STUDYING IN charAt a suspicious death
A death in the Chaco revived the threat of dengue
Publication Date: Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

While the decline in the rate of influenza cases increases, another disease that caused a health alert appears in the neighboring province. In Chaco recognized that study died of "hemorrhagic syndrome" of a couple infected with dengue.

From Public Health which did not include the peak of influenza A expected for August. What strengthens controlled epidemiological situation in regard to novel influenza and makes possible to think the concern is: an outbreak of dengue.

The first wake-up call comes from the neighboring province of Chaco, where the reported death of a young native of Charata who was infected and died of "hemorrhagic syndrome.

The fact is that increasingly need less for the arrival of the warmer months, and this ignited the health warning about the risk of the return of dengue and other vector-borne diseases like yellow fever.
This led to, in advance, Health Minister anticipate that next week it will restart the program "Flow without dengue" and also said that talks have already begun to be awareness in school settings that will last until October.

A job that was started before known a fact that might urge further health action. This is the death of a 20-year-old from Charata who was infected during the epidemic of dengue fever last year and now died of "hemorrhagic syndrome.

Health Minister Chaco Francisco Baquero, acknowledged during the last report of the status of influenza A on Friday offered to study the death of a 20-year-Charata with hemorrhagic syndrome, but explained that "while during the epidemic of dengue had been infected, it is almost ruled out that the cause is dengue hemorrhagic fever by the time the disease evolved. Although consideration is being stressed that the reason of the death and believed that he had associated diseases, "he said.

 

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See post #37 above
Source: http://momento24.com/en/2009/08/23/death-of-a-girl-in-chaco-might-be-linked-to-dengue-fever/

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Death of a girl in Chaco might be linked to dengue fever
Posted on 23 August 2009 at 19:53

The government of Chaco province reported that the samples are being analyzed to determine whether a girl who contracted dengue fever during the summer and died yesterday of ?haemorrhagic syndrome? had been affected by the illness again.

Public Health Minister from Chaco, Francisco Baquero, confirmed that she had been one of the 12,009 confirmed cases in the province during the epidemic that affected the province during the summer months and which according to official figures claimed the lives of two people.

The girl was 20 years old, lived in the town of Charata, and as confirmed the minister, the girl died of ?hemorrhagic syndrome.?

Although, Baquero said that it was almost ruled out that the cause is dengue hemorrhagic fever for the time in which the disease evolved, he admitted that specialists are analyzing samples determine the cause of the death.

The haemorrhagic fever is a severe form of dengue, which can be fatal. It occurs when a person who was infected with dengue virus contracts the illnes again but another strain.

 

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http://www.listindiario.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=120344

Santo Domingo .- A major concern among the residents of Queen Street sector Libertador Buenos Aires de Herrera, due to dengue cases that have arisen in the place, where in recent weeks at least six people, mostly teenagers , had been admitted for that reason.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Public Health says it started the nationwide mobilization against dengue, for which earmarked a budget of around RD $ 40 million over the next five months.

Yesterday it was reported the deaths of two children who were in the intensive care unit of the Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital, which amounts to at least 41 patients died from this cause. Neighbors say the street Liberator some patients have been in very delicate health and so far has not been submitted to place any representative of the Ministry of Public Health.

Mothers surveyed said they are afraid that their children become ill due to the large number of mosquitoes that are in the area and the delay of municipal authorities in the collection of garbage.

Among those affected by dengue include two brothers aged 15 and 9 years children of Mrs. Patria Reyes. One of these patients had dengue hemorrhagic fever and was admitted for seven days at the clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where he was transferred in a very delicate procedure after being initially in the Royal Medical Center.

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Sonia Mota said he recently spent a great shock to her 13-year-old who had a fever of 39 degrees, vomiting and other ailments because it was suffering from dengue. That experience had lived months ago with another daughter. Ensures that water never accumulates, and only use buckets with water when you wash, but behind his house there are many water tanks.

Until last Sunday the 13 year old son of Julia Paredes was admitted to the National Police hospital with a diagnosis of dengue. While tending the sale of chicken that has a horse in the sector, says he lived a difficult time with your inner child.

 

[Tonka]

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http://www.diariohoy.net/accion-verNota-id-55141-titulo-Avanza_el_dengue

Avanza dengue


Buenos Aires Health Ministry warned about the appearance of cases in Paraguay, "more and more about Argentina." The presence of mosquito larvae ignited the alarm in the Province.


The detection of Aedes aegypti mosquito larvae in the province and more than 20 confirmed cases of dengue in Paraguay fired the warning signal and the Health Ministry yesterday went according to Buenos Aires that receipts extremen address this condition.

Director of Epidemiology, Mario Masana Wilson, said the cases detected in the sister country "are occurring in growing areas near the border with Argentina, so we are recommending to the people who travel to this country be extra preventive measures ".

In that vein, he recalled that the first cases detected in the province of Buenos Aires during the last summer were among persons who traveled from neighboring countries such as Bolivia. In fact, the cases treated in public hospitals in La Plata were people who had traveled to those areas or at Chaco.

In La Plata and surroundings no indigenous cases, but the presence of mosquito-that is, household habits and the possibility of new cases "imported" make us fear for possible infections.

During last summer in the province recorded 106 cases of dengue, of which 14 were indigenous and other "imported".

Seeking to prevent new cases, the provincial government developed a plan to combat dengue, which provides, among other things, the distribution to municipalities of 10,800 kilos of larvicide, 25,000 bottles of larvicide (15,000 were distributed to schools); 800 liters of larvicidal, larvicidal and 9,000 units (briquettes). In addition, the portfolio affected health preventive work 27 double-cabin pickup trucks, 18 heavy and 20 portable machines for spraying against the mosquito Aedes aegypti.

But all those tasks, and especially the removal of containers that can collect water, may prove meaningless compared to the poverty in which many of our compatriots survive.

In villages there are boxes in which usually enter the water overflowing the ditches and stagnant fluids everywhere. Obviously that is a breeding ground for the proliferation of nuclear and other dangerous diseases.

According to the ministry in charge of Claudio Zin, provincial hospitals and municipalities will deepen the measures jointly implemented during the last week. "We aim to raise awareness especially to all the families on the need to implement preventive measures as the most effective way to fight dengue is to eliminate potential mosquito breeding sites in each home," said Zin.

As part of precautionary measures were undertaken in all districts, training and awareness activities to prevent disease. Talks also open to the community, operating trash removal, spraying and weeding, and campaigns.

As noted, six provincial health centers provide analysis and diagnosis of dengue, thus joining the task at the national laboratory Julio Maiztegui Pergamino. Among them, the hospitals San Juan de Dios, Sister Maria Ludovica and Rodolfo Rossi de La Plata.