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Argentina: Possible outbreak of Trichinosis

Tonka

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http://infocampo.com.ar/nota/campo/34239/posible-foco-de-triquinosis
Spanish-English translation

Possible outbreak of Trichinosis
Two family members are under observation after each time a case of trichinosis after eating wild boar and pork. Still could not determine which of the two animals were sick.

July 25, 2012 | 8:54

TRICHINOSIS , DELTA , FAMILY , PIG , BOAR
Members of two families living in the delta are under observation entrerriano after each time a case of trichinosis, health officials confirmed yesterday the region. Families living in Villa Paranacito Arroyo and Martinez, in the extreme south of the province of Entre Rios, and are being evaluated in the hospital Centennial Gualeguaych? to confirm or exclude the disease. As advance, 22 people ate sausages made ​​from meat hunted wild boar in the Delta, but also consumed a pig bought in northern Buenos Aires. As reported in Financial Field, the boar was hunted by members of both households in the delta area and the mountain of beef produced with salami and sausages . These bills are made ​​with raw meat, which makes local doctors suspect that the boar was the carrier of trichinosis, a disease fatal to humans if not taken in time. Possible affected by the disease were initially treated in hospital Villa Paranacito.





Of the 22 people who said they feel the symptoms of the disease, 18 were referred to hospital Centennial Gualeguaych? and the remaining four. own accord went to health centers in Buenos Aires and Gualeguay. The director of Hospital Epidemiology Node Centennial, Elina Villarruel, said that "so far confirmed only one case, he was admitted to the hospital Gualeguaych?."

The doctor explained that the others are considered suspect because there is no confirmation sent to the laboratory analyzes Malbr?n Institute.
Villarruel said they could not determine which of the two animals was ill with trichinosis consumed, because they could not take samples for analysis of invoices. He said that, because the patients were taken on time "in any of the cases submitted to studies danger of death ", although in the group, several children between 8 and 10 years.
 
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