Bolivia Dengue Cases 2012

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http://www.fmbolivia.tv/2012/01/hay-5-000-casos-de-dengue-352-son-graves/
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There are 5,000 cases of dengue, 352 are serious


There are 5,000 cases of dengue, 352 are serious
Dengue epidemic in Bolivia has more than 5,000 confirmed cases of patients with this disease from managing 2011, of which 352 are discussed in critical condition today. The Ministry of Health warns that the death toll will be on the rise.

Alberto Nogales, the Ministry of Health, reported yesterday about the existence of more than 5,000 dengue patients registered in Bolivia and an estimated 40,000 suspected cases, as reported ERBOL network.

Giving the details, Nogales announced that the contagion will spread further: "In confirmed cases we're talking more than 5,000 suspected cases and we are talking to some 30,000 to 40,000 cases and this will increase."

In these cases, 70% of patients who were registered is in the department of Santa Cruz, especially the town of Yapacan?.


In these figures, the deputy health minister, Martin Maturano, said Wednesday that at present are 352 confirmed cases of evil, of which 152 and 131 are in Cochabamba, Santa Cruz. The other is registered in the north of La Paz and other cities, according to ABI government.

"What happens is that there are many cases that go to Santa Cruz by the proximity of Bulo Bulo and Entre Rios," said authority.

Maturano said that from Monday of next week about 300 people, medical personnel, military and fumigators will be mobilized to control outbreaks of dengue in La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.

For its part, the premier radio news broadcasts yesterday Fides Catholic Health Minister Nila Heredia, announced that there were five fatal victims of this ailment in the last 30 days, reported AFP.

"Cases of dengue are the most serious concern: we have over 300 infected cases, five cases and one suspect dead," said authority. Four of these deaths occurred in the department of Cochabamba and one in the region of Santa Cruz.

 

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http://saludable.infobae.com/ya-suman-cinco-los-muertos-y-300-infectados-por-dengue-en-bolivia/
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Added five dead and 300 infected with dengue in Bolivia


In total there are 5 000 confirmed cases of the disease in that country . The departments most affected by the disease are Santa Cruz and Cochabamba
Five people died of dengue in the last 30 days in Bolivia and there are 300 serious infection , according to a balance released Thursday by the Health Minister Nila Heredia.
"Cases of dengue are the most serious concerns us: we have over 300 infected cases, five cases and one suspect dead , "said Minister Heredia, quoted by the news portal of the Catholic radio station Fides.
The departments most affected by the disease are Santa Cruz (East) and Cochabamba (center).
The government estimates that there are 300 serious cases, but in total there are "5,000 confirmed cases of dengue," according to Deputy Health Minister Alberto Nogales, who said that they are given medical care.
December, January and February are peak months of dengue in Bolivia, for the start of the rainy season affecting the increase of Aedes aegypti mosquito that breeds in stagnant water.

 

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http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=469517&Itemid=1
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Bolivia confirmed in 721 cases of dengue

L a Paz, Jan 19 (Prensa Latina) Bolivia dengue cases rose to 721 in four of the nine departments, said the Acting Head of the National Epidemiology Unit, Max Enriquez. In remarks published on Thursday the newspaper Cambio, Enriquez said that Cochabamba has the highest number of cases, so that for more than a week was conducted in eight municipalities of the department from house to house search for people with fever. has 304 cases Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, 281, La Paz , 106, Beni, 26, three in Chuquisaca and Tarija one person. The head of Health said that there are only six deaths from dengue, four in Cochabamba, and one in Santa Cruz and Beni. During the previous period October epidemiological 2010 to January 2011 422 cases were reported, but from October 2011 to January 2012 is 721, so it is considered a significant increase in dengue cases. On the other hand, the deputy health minister, Martin Maturano, said only 10 percent of the population reaches the hospital, so there are more suspected cases of dengue are not being reported. It is in active search of cases increases, especially in Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, said Maturana, who reminded that there are three interdisciplinary teams conducting surveillance work, cleaning and spraying of mosquito that transmits dengue. lac / abm

 

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http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=474582&Itemid=1

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Dengue takes another life in Bolivia
February 3, 2012, 16:25 La Paz, February 3 (Prensa Latina) The dengue epidemic that affects the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz took sixth victim today in 2012, admitted the secretary of health of that government, Oscar Urenda.

Urenda not disclose the name of the deceased, but said that in the municipality of Yapacan?, 100 kilometers from the provincial capital, where the mosquito, Aedes Aegipty, has wreaked havoc in the first weeks of the year.

"Moved up to 309 positive cases of dengue, 182 and 127 are provincial town, while two others are considered suspicious thousand 830 people, a figure too high," the health secretary.

So far failed to control the progression of the disease in the department, despite the clean-up campaigns undertaken with the intent to destroy mosquito breeding sites.

After the sixth death so far this year, the health department believes that the Government should enact the emergency department, especially as more and more scarce capacity in hospitals.

According Urenda, by far, the final details for the declaration of emergency: "The issue is already operating marching, we have the resources earlier ... but the declaration has to go through a decree of the Government and will then pass to your approval to the budget of the Assembly. "

In recent months, dengue has wreaked havoc in several Bolivian departments, especially in Cochabamba, Tarija and Santa Cruz, despite campaigns to eliminate the infectious agent.

 

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Hemorrhagic Fever Alert in Bolivian Department
mi?rcoles, 08 de febrero de 2012

La Paz, Feb 8 (Prensa Latina) The alert for increased cases of dengue and hemorrhagic fever was declared on Wednesday in the Bolivian department of Beni.

The head of epidemiology at the Departmental Health Service (Sedes), Wilfredo Camargo, said that this year there were registered four deaths from dengue and two from hemorrhagic fever.

Of the 636 suspected dengue cases reported, 100 were positive, while the number of hemorrhagic fever cases reaches 36, all this in the province of Mamore...

 

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Another region of Bolivia declared a red alert for dengue, which collects 14 deaths
By Reuters - 4 days ago
La Paz, Feb 8 (EFE). - The Beni region of Bolivia (northeast), which borders Brazil, today became the second to declare a red alert for a dengue epidemic that has already caused 14 deaths since October throughout the country, said the national chief of Epidemiology, Joseph Zambrana.
Beni authorities declared a red alert, as last week their counterparts in Santa Cruz (East), to more quickly manage equipment, materials and human resources to stop the spread of the disease, told Efe Zambrana.
"Last year there were many more cases and deaths in Beni that are presented now, but I think it is a good preventative measure to not get to be too many cases and are not able to control," he added.
Zambrana said that since October has confirmed six deaths from dengue in Cochabamba (center), six in Santa Cruz and two in Beni.
There are 1,335 infected, more than half in Santa Cruz border with Brazil and Paraguay.
Transmitted by the bite of a mosquito "Aedes aegypti" Dengue causes high fevers, headache, vomiting and rashes on the skin and can be fatal in its hemorrhagic form.
The endemic rages annually in Bolivia, one of the poorest countries in America, arriving in recent months the rainy season and the worst in recent years dengue deaths were 2011, with 47, and 2009, with 22.

 

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http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=478856&Itemid=1
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Dengue adds another victim in Bolivia

La Paz, February 16 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian department of Cochabamba today added the third victim of dengue so far this year, according to hospital director Viedma, Gaston Osorio. A 33 year old man died as a result of dengue, a day after being admitted to the hospital, Osorio said, adding that the victim arrived in critical condition and was unable to save his life. "The patient was admitted to intensive care on Wednesday and unfortunately by the gravity of the case has died . It is the third serious dengue patient dies in hospital this year, "he said. Osorio clarified that the patient had several complications, including multiple internal bleeding, especially in the brain, which hastened his death. The deceased, a native Sacaba, had plots in Entre Rios, where he allegedly was infected with evil, which left sequelae in several Bolivian departments in recent months. Despite the government's campaign and the Ministry of Health to try to control the mosquito Aedes Aegipty, transmitting agent of the disease, it caused overcrowding in the hospitals of various departments, some of which declared a state of alert. The most affected departments were Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Tarija, Oruro and La Paz. ocs / hm

 

[Missouriwatcher]

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According to Ministerio de Salud) Bolivia up to week 43:

Total 2012 Confirmed Dengue Cases: 7,373
Total Deaths: 47
http://www.msal.gov.ar/index.php/home/boletin-integrado-de-vigilancia

 

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According to Ministerio de Salud) Bolivia up to week 44:

Total 2012 Confirmed Dengue Cases: 5,049
Total Deaths: 31
http://www.msal.gov.ar/index.php/home/boletin-integrado-de-vigilancia

NOTE: ? confirmed cases and deaths went down from previous week

 

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http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&idioma=1&id=767131&Itemid=1
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Reported first case of Dengue serotype four in Bolivia
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* La Paz, Dec 3 (PL) The Ministry of Health and Sports of Bolivia today reported the first case of dengue serotype four in the country, discovered in the town of Puerto Evo, in the northern department of Pando, near the border with Brazil .

We have the first case, we perform the procedures with greater accountability and rigor in order to contain the spread and continue the work with greater emphasis on the issue of overall control of dengue in the municipalities and departments, said Deputy health Maturano Martin.

According to the technical report on the presence of the four dengue, the case was laboratory confirmed, after a male patient, aged 40, took a blood test by symptoms associated with the disease.

In the risk assessment, the document calls for major public health impact, because in the country are the first three serotypes and it is endemic.

According to this report is the first time confirmed an imported case of dengue four.

This is a disease that is transmitted by the bite of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, and affects people in tropical and subtropical areas.

Symptoms appear after three to 14 days after the infective bite, and is manifested by a mild fever to a very high to severe headaches, muscle pain and others.

Deputy Health Minister said that so far the epidemiological period (October 2012 to September 2013) reported 60 positive cases and 250 suspects.

Maturano said that in 2011 the first cases of dengue serotype four in the region, so the Pan American Health Organization issued a warning for countries to take precautions.

 

[Missouriwatcher]

Re: Bolivia Dengue Cases 2012

According to Ministerio de Salud) Bolivia up to week 48:

Total 2012 Confirmed Dengue Cases (to week 46): 5.639
Total Deaths: 37

September 1 (SE 36) to November 27, 2012 (SE 48) were studied and
reported 390 suspected cases of dengue in 16 provinces with a median
reporting opportunity 2 days. Of these, six have had positive tests
for dengue, of which 3 were imported and 3 native.

During the recent week of no confirmed cases have been detected in
dengue.
http://www.msal.gov.ar/index.php/home/boletin-integrado-de-vigilancia