Ronan Kelly
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Greater Recife / RAIN IN THE STATE
State already investigating 29 cases of leptospirosis
Posted on 06/07/2010 at 7:16 a.m.
Jornal do Commercio
Twenty-nine people exposed to the rains were hospitalized in the last 15 days in Pernambuco with signs of leptospirosis, according to State Department of Health Eleven are living in Recife, but there are cases of Palmares and the Agua Preta, in the Atlantic South, which were submerged with the flooding of the Una River between 18th and June 19th. The manager of the State of Epidemiology, Jacira Ferreira, asks health teams in the areas where the population was exposed to dirty water be on the lookout to assist as quickly as possible to patients.
A woman of 51 years, with difficulty breathing, signs of a disease caused by bacteria present in mouse urine, was admitted in the early hours of yesterday at the newly opened Metropolitan Hospital South Dom Helder Camara, in Cabo de Santo Agostinho. The patient is in serious condition in intensive care unit. She resides in Black Water, city of just over 30 000 inhabitants, in which one third of the homes had flooded.
Besides the 11 Recife and two cases of Palmares and Black Water, the Epidemiological Monitoring of the State of Victoria recorded five patients, two of Caruaru, two of Jaboatao dos Guararapes, two Ipojuca and two of Olinda. There is also a case of Camaragibe, one of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and another of Cha de Alegria.
Fever, body pain and calf, jaundice (skin and orange eyes) or difficulty breathing are signs of leptospirosis, which can kill.
In the two reference units for infectious diseases in Recife, State University Hospital and Hospital das Clinicas (HC), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), hospital admissions are increasing. Yesterday, in the HC, the wards were two residents of the capital and a resident of Paulista, all transferred from Hospital Magalh?es. At the University Hospital Oswaldo Cruz, three other patients were also hospitalized. This year already 200 cases of leptospirosis notified. Before the rains, 24 were confirmed, with one death. In 2009, there were 215 confirmations, with 17 deaths.
According Jacira Ferreira, Hospital Oswaldo Cruz, Santo Amaro, in the central region of Recife, remains the main reference for the most severe cases of leptospirosis. The HC, in University City, and the Baron of Lucena, in Caxang?, both in the western area of Recife, give support. So far the state has not created special wards, as it did last year for patients H1N1.
To expedite the registration of leptospirosis and other diseases, epidemiology technicians stationed in Recife state are being shifted to the Southern Forest A representative of the Ministry of Health, Surveillance Program in Situations of Natural Disaster, visited the city last week. Yesterday was the third meeting held by videoconference between technicians of the ministry and the state government to monitor the situation.
http://jc.uol.com.br/canal/cotidian...investiga-29-casos-de-leptospirose-227743.php
Greater Recife / RAIN IN THE STATE
State already investigating 29 cases of leptospirosis
Posted on 06/07/2010 at 7:16 a.m.
Jornal do Commercio
Twenty-nine people exposed to the rains were hospitalized in the last 15 days in Pernambuco with signs of leptospirosis, according to State Department of Health Eleven are living in Recife, but there are cases of Palmares and the Agua Preta, in the Atlantic South, which were submerged with the flooding of the Una River between 18th and June 19th. The manager of the State of Epidemiology, Jacira Ferreira, asks health teams in the areas where the population was exposed to dirty water be on the lookout to assist as quickly as possible to patients.
A woman of 51 years, with difficulty breathing, signs of a disease caused by bacteria present in mouse urine, was admitted in the early hours of yesterday at the newly opened Metropolitan Hospital South Dom Helder Camara, in Cabo de Santo Agostinho. The patient is in serious condition in intensive care unit. She resides in Black Water, city of just over 30 000 inhabitants, in which one third of the homes had flooded.
Besides the 11 Recife and two cases of Palmares and Black Water, the Epidemiological Monitoring of the State of Victoria recorded five patients, two of Caruaru, two of Jaboatao dos Guararapes, two Ipojuca and two of Olinda. There is also a case of Camaragibe, one of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and another of Cha de Alegria.
Fever, body pain and calf, jaundice (skin and orange eyes) or difficulty breathing are signs of leptospirosis, which can kill.
In the two reference units for infectious diseases in Recife, State University Hospital and Hospital das Clinicas (HC), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), hospital admissions are increasing. Yesterday, in the HC, the wards were two residents of the capital and a resident of Paulista, all transferred from Hospital Magalh?es. At the University Hospital Oswaldo Cruz, three other patients were also hospitalized. This year already 200 cases of leptospirosis notified. Before the rains, 24 were confirmed, with one death. In 2009, there were 215 confirmations, with 17 deaths.
According Jacira Ferreira, Hospital Oswaldo Cruz, Santo Amaro, in the central region of Recife, remains the main reference for the most severe cases of leptospirosis. The HC, in University City, and the Baron of Lucena, in Caxang?, both in the western area of Recife, give support. So far the state has not created special wards, as it did last year for patients H1N1.
To expedite the registration of leptospirosis and other diseases, epidemiology technicians stationed in Recife state are being shifted to the Southern Forest A representative of the Ministry of Health, Surveillance Program in Situations of Natural Disaster, visited the city last week. Yesterday was the third meeting held by videoconference between technicians of the ministry and the state government to monitor the situation.
http://jc.uol.com.br/canal/cotidian...investiga-29-casos-de-leptospirose-227743.php
