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http://www.diariouno.com.ar/mendoza...hora-estan-en-cuarentena-20130109-930006.html
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They bought a parrot, almost died of psittacosis and are now in quarantine
In Alvear, a family is quarantined after being infected with Chlamydia psittaci. The father is in intensive care and the wife alone in the clinical ward. The children can not leave the house and are under strict medical supervision. It is transmitted through fecal matter of birds.
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By Gonzalo Villatoro
gvillatoro@diariouno.net.ar
Health authorities quarantined keep an entire family who contracted psittacosis. The bird that transmits the disease was a tasting that bought in a shop pett local.
There are 7 people in total that are under strict medical supervision.
More serious cases are Carbajo Alberto Garcia (48) and his wife Rosana Corval?n (40) who are admitted to the hospital Nurses Argentinos General Alvear.
The man is with prognosis in intensive care while the woman remains isolated in the ward medical clinic and his health is not of such gravity.
Of the four children of the marriage, both began to suffer from the condition, under 17 and 14 years old are under pharmacological treatment, however it was not needed hospitalization so they remain in quarantine at home.
This situation is also one of the in-law, a woman of 62 years.
The other two children aged 18 and 7 years no symptoms but was also closely monitors the condition of both children.
According to the account of the patients, it all started when they bought the bird at a local store in late December and the parrot died after 48 hours.
At 15 days of that incident Alberto was the first to start to feel the symptoms (fever, nausea, constant headache, cough, shortness of breath, muscle and joint pain) and then followed his wife and children.
"Until proven otherwise, the diagnosis of the disease is psittacosis" said Omar Nodari Walter, who was in charge of the intensive care unit when the patient was admitted on Monday morning.
Psittacosis is an acute infectious disease caused by the widespread and Chlamydia psittaci, a type of bacteria found in the droppings of infected birds, which spread the infection to humans. The tastings or parrots are birds "most commonly contract the disease but also pigeons, poultry and turkeys," said Jorge Escudero Natural Resources.
Usually psittacosis spread by inhaling dust from dried feces bird cages and handling infected birds. Waste material from a bird cage can maintain their status infectious for weeks.
For intervention took the Epidemiology and Zoonosis Division of the province. Natural Resources also took participation and veterinary area of the municipality.
Beyond this particular case, the authorities advised the public not to buy animals without the backing of the documentation certifying the origin.
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Spanish-English translation
They bought a parrot, almost died of psittacosis and are now in quarantine
In Alvear, a family is quarantined after being infected with Chlamydia psittaci. The father is in intensive care and the wife alone in the clinical ward. The children can not leave the house and are under strict medical supervision. It is transmitted through fecal matter of birds.
Comment ..
By Gonzalo Villatoro
gvillatoro@diariouno.net.ar
Health authorities quarantined keep an entire family who contracted psittacosis. The bird that transmits the disease was a tasting that bought in a shop pett local.
There are 7 people in total that are under strict medical supervision.
More serious cases are Carbajo Alberto Garcia (48) and his wife Rosana Corval?n (40) who are admitted to the hospital Nurses Argentinos General Alvear.
The man is with prognosis in intensive care while the woman remains isolated in the ward medical clinic and his health is not of such gravity.
Of the four children of the marriage, both began to suffer from the condition, under 17 and 14 years old are under pharmacological treatment, however it was not needed hospitalization so they remain in quarantine at home.
This situation is also one of the in-law, a woman of 62 years.
The other two children aged 18 and 7 years no symptoms but was also closely monitors the condition of both children.
According to the account of the patients, it all started when they bought the bird at a local store in late December and the parrot died after 48 hours.
At 15 days of that incident Alberto was the first to start to feel the symptoms (fever, nausea, constant headache, cough, shortness of breath, muscle and joint pain) and then followed his wife and children.
"Until proven otherwise, the diagnosis of the disease is psittacosis" said Omar Nodari Walter, who was in charge of the intensive care unit when the patient was admitted on Monday morning.
Psittacosis is an acute infectious disease caused by the widespread and Chlamydia psittaci, a type of bacteria found in the droppings of infected birds, which spread the infection to humans. The tastings or parrots are birds "most commonly contract the disease but also pigeons, poultry and turkeys," said Jorge Escudero Natural Resources.
Usually psittacosis spread by inhaling dust from dried feces bird cages and handling infected birds. Waste material from a bird cage can maintain their status infectious for weeks.
For intervention took the Epidemiology and Zoonosis Division of the province. Natural Resources also took participation and veterinary area of the municipality.
Beyond this particular case, the authorities advised the public not to buy animals without the backing of the documentation certifying the origin.
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