Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
01/12/2015
RJ secretariat studies linking zika and Guillain-Barr?
Two women had the syndrome and had red spots.
Recife has warned, with 42 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome within 6 months.
The State Department of Health investigates the link between zika virus and Guillain-Barr? syndrome. The association is a novelty in Brazil, and the warning came up with the increase in the number of cases of the syndrome in Pernambuco, according to RJTV.
In Rio, doctors diagnosed two women with Guillain-Barr? syndrome in Rio. One of them, diagnosed a month ago, has been discharged and was not with sequels. The second notification was made on Monday (1), and the woman is being treated.
The syndrome is rare, and affects the nervous system, causing fever, difficulty breathing, headache and joint pain, numbness and weakness in the feet and legs. In more severe cases, leading to paralysis of the limbs.
It was a symptom of another disease that caught the attention of the doctors who treated these two women. They had red spots in the body - one of the viruses zika signals. The State Health Department is investigating whether patients were infected by the Aedes aegypti before contracting the neurological syndrome.
The association of zika virus as a possible cause of Guillain-Barr? syndrome is new in Brazil. The warning came in Recife.
In just six months, they have been confirmed in 42 cases Recife, number three times higher than recorded in 2014. Four tested positive for the virus zika.
"By the time you have a case that presents itself as a neurological complaint, deficit or imbalance, of altered consciousness, with previous, clinical manifestations, suggesting a viral infection, enters the research group the possibility of a virus this order, "said Maria Lucia Brito Ferreira, head of the Neurology Department of the Reef Restoration Hospital.
Most cases of the syndrome is caused by viral infections. And zika could be one of the risk factors.
"Further research time is required, the occurrence of default observation of Guillain-Barr? syndrome to try to establish any kind of correlation," said Alexandre Chieppe, Secretary of Health Surveillance, the secretariat.
RJ secretariat studies linking zika and Guillain-Barr?
Two women had the syndrome and had red spots.
Recife has warned, with 42 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome within 6 months.
The State Department of Health investigates the link between zika virus and Guillain-Barr? syndrome. The association is a novelty in Brazil, and the warning came up with the increase in the number of cases of the syndrome in Pernambuco, according to RJTV.
In Rio, doctors diagnosed two women with Guillain-Barr? syndrome in Rio. One of them, diagnosed a month ago, has been discharged and was not with sequels. The second notification was made on Monday (1), and the woman is being treated.
The syndrome is rare, and affects the nervous system, causing fever, difficulty breathing, headache and joint pain, numbness and weakness in the feet and legs. In more severe cases, leading to paralysis of the limbs.
It was a symptom of another disease that caught the attention of the doctors who treated these two women. They had red spots in the body - one of the viruses zika signals. The State Health Department is investigating whether patients were infected by the Aedes aegypti before contracting the neurological syndrome.
The association of zika virus as a possible cause of Guillain-Barr? syndrome is new in Brazil. The warning came in Recife.
In just six months, they have been confirmed in 42 cases Recife, number three times higher than recorded in 2014. Four tested positive for the virus zika.
"By the time you have a case that presents itself as a neurological complaint, deficit or imbalance, of altered consciousness, with previous, clinical manifestations, suggesting a viral infection, enters the research group the possibility of a virus this order, "said Maria Lucia Brito Ferreira, head of the Neurology Department of the Reef Restoration Hospital.
Most cases of the syndrome is caused by viral infections. And zika could be one of the risk factors.
"Further research time is required, the occurrence of default observation of Guillain-Barr? syndrome to try to establish any kind of correlation," said Alexandre Chieppe, Secretary of Health Surveillance, the secretariat.