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Argentina: Two family members die of hantavirus, a third one remains hospitalized

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With a 15-day gap between the two fatal cases, person-to-person spread is possible here.

http://www.infobae.com/salud/512627-101096-0-Un-nino-y-su-tia-jubilada-murieron-hantavirus-Salta

22/04/1910 | HEALTH
Un ni?o y su t?a jubilada murieron de hantavirus en Salta A boy and his aunt died of hantavirus retired in Salta 1 Dej? tu comentario 1 Leave your comment Recomendar Recommend Texto Text Imprimir Print Compartir Share
Las v?ctimas fatales, de 10 y 60 a?os, llegaron al hospital en un estado "extremadamente grave" . The death toll of 10 and 60, arrived at the hospital in an "extremely serious." Otro integrante de la familia tambi?n est? internado por la enfermedad Another family member is also hospitalized for the disease
Los dos fallecidos, un ni?o de 10 a?os y su t?a de 60, viv?an en la ciudad de Or?n, ubicada en el norte de Salta y considerada foco de hantavirus . Ambos murieron con diferencia de d?as , inform? el sitio web Diario La Prensa. 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. They died with a difference of days, reported the website Diario La Prensa.

Habitaban el asentamiento R?o Blanco, al oeste de la ciudad, y fueron atendidos en el Hospital San Vicente de Paul de Or?n con quince d?as de diferencia. 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, gerente de ese centro de salud, explic? que los dos pacientes, que fallecieron durante el ?ltimo mes, ingresaron con cuadros "extremadamente graves" . Julio Moreno, manager of the facility, explained that the two patients who died during the last month, admitted with acute "extremely serious". Confirm? que tambi?n se encuentra internada all? una familiar de los fallecidos , aunque su evoluci?n es favorable . He confirmed that there is also admitted one of the deceased family, although its evolution is favorable.

"A?os atr?s tuvimos familias enteras que contrajeron el virus", se?al? el m?dico, por lo que consider? esta situaci?n "no es novedosa". "Years ago we had whole families who contracted the virus," said the doctor, what he called the situation "is not novel."

De acuerdo a las palabras de Moreno, "es en esta ?poca cuando habitualmente se registran casos de hantavirus" . According to Moreno's words, "at this time is usually recorded cases of hantavirus. En la actualidad es mucho m?s f?cil detectarlos, continu?, debido a que el laboratorio de enfermedades tropicales provincial se encuentra ubicado en Or?n. It is now much easier to detect, he continued, because the provincial tropical disease laboratory is located in Oran.

El especialista record? que, antes que se instalara este centro, "hubo muertes que se produjeron porque se dio un tratamiento err?neo a los casos de hantavirus, que pudieron ser confundidos con dengue" , debido a que la sintomatolog?a de ambas enfermedades "es similar, aunque el tratamiento que se les debe suministrar es diametralmente opuesto ". 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 diametrically opposite. "

El hantavirus es una enfermedad que transmiten los roedores en zonas urbanas y periurbanas. Hantavirus is a disease transmitted by rodents in urban and suburban areas. El virus se transmite a los humanos a partir del aire contaminado con orina, excremento o saliva del rat?n. The virus is transmitted to humans from air contaminated with urine, feces or saliva of the mouse.
 
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