Argentina- Hantavirus 2012

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http://www.lacapital.com.ar/la-regi...-por-hantavirus-en-Totoras-20120110-0074.html
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Confirm that a man died of hantavirus in Totoras

This was confirmed by the Provincial Department of Promotion and Health Prevention. The death of the man, who met today, but it happened on January 3, is the first for this cause in the year after that in 2011 was confirmed a total of five.

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The Provincial Directorate of Promotion and Prevention of Health confirmed today the death of a human hantavirus in the town of Totoras Iriondo department of Santa Fe, 100 miles northwest of Rosario.

The death of the man, who met today, but it happened on January 3, is the first for this cause in the year after that in 2011 was confirmed a total of five.

Health officials advise those affected workers to control pests that carry air-purifying masks capable of retaining particles of 0.3 microns and the use of gloves and rubber boots. They also asked to wash and disinfect all water and ethyl alcohol bleach to 70 percent.

People involved in tourism in peripheral areas are suggested not to use closed cabins or lodges for a long time until they have been properly ventilated, and no tents or place sleeping bags in soils where observe feces, burrows, and sleep on the earth.

The Health Department noted that for hantavirus vaccines are not and are not sufficient pest control campaigns.

You must keep the premises and its surroundings in a hygienic condition, with short grass, free of waste or unused items, he added.

 

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Re: Argentina-Confirm that a man died of Hantavirus in Totoras

Re: Argentina-Confirm that a man died of Hantavirus in Totoras

http://www.eldia.com.ar/edis/20120123/investigan-presunto-caso-hantavirus-region-laciudad0.htm
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Investigating a suspected case of hantavirus in the Region
She is admitted to the hospital San Martin and awaiting the results of studies

The lights again alert for possible cases of hantavirus in the region. In the coming hours will be announced the results of a study that will determine the origin of the condition remains hospitalized in San Martin with symptoms similar to those of the dreaded disease of rodents that transmit a young Ensenada.

"We have multiple patients with acute respiratory syndromes, and the wide range of possibilities is that of one of them suffering from hantavirus" sources said yesterday the health center 1 and 70. In this context, since the Health Ministry Buenos Aires was recognized that "suspected, samples were sent to a laboratory rigor so as to provide as soon as possible an accurate diagnostic tool." The results, sources said, would be known later today or early tomorrow.

A fortnight ago, the evil that has as its main vector mouse "long-tailed" claimed the life of Vanessa Pritchard, an Ensenada 33, mother of two, who had spent Christmas Eve at a house in Punta Indio. Pritchard entered the first day of the guard Rossi Hospital with what appeared a severe flu symptoms, a few hours his condition worsened and he died two days later due to respiratory failure.

Rossi professionals inquired about the activities of the young during the days prior to admission, and agreed that tying up his visit to Punta Indio could be the trigger of the fatal box. On Christmas night, the incessant ringing of the legs of the mice in the roof of the house convinced the family to sleep in his car, but Vanessa was too late.

In the program area of ​​Rossi, it was found that exposure of Ensenada family to "a high rodent population" was "tremendous, even in the house lay the remains of mice."

 

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Re: Argentina- Hantavirus 2012

http://www.eltribuno.info/jujuy/150173-Dos-personas-murieron-de-hantavirus-en-Ledesma.note.aspx
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Two people died of hantavirus in Ledesma
Health Ministry officials urged to take preventive measures against diseases infectocontagios
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Wednesday April 18, 2012 Jujuy

In order to strengthen prevention measures by the population against infectious diseases, concerning the Ministry of Health reported that in late March there were two deaths from hantavirus in the branch, and detected three imported cases of dengue in the province.
Stressing that both diseases are spread through transmitters, the rat in the case of hantavirus, and dengue mosquito in the Secretary of Planning Policy and Health Regulation, Marcelo Bellone, along with Patricia Steren, director of Epidemiology indicated that the most important in this type of pathology is prevention.

With respect to hantavirus was reported in Jujuy this year there were 98 suspected cases, of which seven were confirmed, five are in good condition and two died in late March in eldepartamento Ledesma. The first death from the disease occurred during the epidemiological week twelve and thirteen in the second, and most likely was that the transmission of the virus is held in for work in rural areas.

The director of epidemiology, Patricia Steren said the hantavirus is endemic, so there are constantly suspected patients. The disease causes respiratory complications and causes death in a fifty-fifty percent of patients.
Infection is likely to occur in people living in rural areas and are in contact with rats, the virus is transmitted through the urine, feces or saliva of the animal. "We must be careful in the home," said Steren, recommending placing poisons and make constant cleaning to the possibility of rats in a house.

If stool or urine observed someone, you should leave the house ventilated for half an hour, come with chinstrap, clean with bleach: These are basic measures to prevent cases of hantavirus.
"It's a new disease, discovered during the last thirty years, also has rapid evolution from the time someone gets sick to the possibility of dying, spend ten days, "said the official.
The disease is spread by vector, rat, and there are minimal chances of infection from person to person in the last stages of the disease, when a pulmonary syndrome. Besides this problem, although there is no vaccine or treatment for the disease, which is why prevention is important.
The first symptoms before the hantavirus are fever, muscle and joint pain, and cough. These signals presented by people in the area of the branch or rural areas should alert the residents, and must attend immediately to a health center.


Three cases of dengue

Moreover, the spread of dengue in the geographical areas surrounding the province is worrisome. All three cases screened positive were imported from Bolivia, with which the possibility of further spread of the vector is latent.
Both in the neighboring country and in Salta, the amount of fever which are numerous cases of dengue considered suspicious. This leads to the case confirmation rate will be high, thereby, the Jujuy must not forget the possible symptoms, and should remember that it is of utmost importance to the physician immediately attend to avoid a dengue epidemic.

The positive cases were detected for weeks and studied their evolution, showing good responses during treatment, we studied the environment, the family group and geographical area. "While none of these cases resulted in complications in the health of these people, should be taken to time to remember preventive measures until the end of the heat, we are suspicious of the disease, and we caution people not to throw up their hands" said Marcelo Bellone.
health team said that because the infection was performed in a neighboring country. When infected people enter our territory must be prevented from spreading to other mosquitoes that can chop, and that these insects do not continue spreading and produce an outbreak. "We have a surveillance system quite timely," he said.