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08.01.2011 | 13h24
Outbreak of diarrhea makes patient wait 3 hours in a hospital in coastal SP
In the first five days of the year, according to the mayor of Guaruja, 700 cases were reported in public hospitals
Folha Online
An outbreak of diarrhea hit and Guaruja Praia Grande, S?o Paulo in the south coast this summer. It is unclear whether the disease is caused by viruses or bacteria. Because of the outbreak, hospitals are full of Guaruja. In the main city emergency room patients were waiting more than three hours for medication.
In the first five days of the year, according to the mayor of Guaruja, 700 cases were reported in public hospitals - an average of 110 to 140 a day. The number is three times higher than normal. At the hospital Santo Amaro - private - have been met 400 people in one day. In Medical Care, were 180, according to Dr. Ricardo Auad, who works in both.
Data of the prefecture are preliminary, but may indicate that the outbreak is higher. Last summer, between December 2009 and January 2010 were 1,774 cases - an average of 29 per day.
Praia Grande also been cases of the disease. Christmas until Thursday, were 320 cases. Normal is 50 to 60 in ten days. The number, however, is less than the Christmas of 2009 and the first days of 2010: 1,600.
Lilia Rolandia da Silva, 40, went to the hospital with her daughter in Guaruja Priscilla Meirelles, 17. Since Thursday, they are with vomiting and diarrhea. She credited the disease to the city water.
Vanuza Araujo, 43, fell ill last week and yesterday took the mother to the hospital. "When it rains, go out to foil the tap," he said.
The city says that the surveillance did tests on the water and found nothing abnormal.
For the manager of the urgencies of city hall, Augusto Bustamante, still can not tell if the cause of the outbreak is a bacterium (transmitted by food or water) or a virus (transmitted through the air) because the number of cases tested yet not allow the conclusion .
Conclusive results should have in 30 days. "The lab Fleury warned that Norovirus could affect the coast," he said.
Celso Granato, infectious Fleury says the lab made the warning based on reports of the virus in some vessels. However, he asserts that the norovirus is usually spread indoors.
Portuguese to English translation
08.01.2011 | 13h24
Outbreak of diarrhea makes patient wait 3 hours in a hospital in coastal SP
In the first five days of the year, according to the mayor of Guaruja, 700 cases were reported in public hospitals
Folha Online
An outbreak of diarrhea hit and Guaruja Praia Grande, S?o Paulo in the south coast this summer. It is unclear whether the disease is caused by viruses or bacteria. Because of the outbreak, hospitals are full of Guaruja. In the main city emergency room patients were waiting more than three hours for medication.
In the first five days of the year, according to the mayor of Guaruja, 700 cases were reported in public hospitals - an average of 110 to 140 a day. The number is three times higher than normal. At the hospital Santo Amaro - private - have been met 400 people in one day. In Medical Care, were 180, according to Dr. Ricardo Auad, who works in both.
Data of the prefecture are preliminary, but may indicate that the outbreak is higher. Last summer, between December 2009 and January 2010 were 1,774 cases - an average of 29 per day.
Praia Grande also been cases of the disease. Christmas until Thursday, were 320 cases. Normal is 50 to 60 in ten days. The number, however, is less than the Christmas of 2009 and the first days of 2010: 1,600.
Lilia Rolandia da Silva, 40, went to the hospital with her daughter in Guaruja Priscilla Meirelles, 17. Since Thursday, they are with vomiting and diarrhea. She credited the disease to the city water.
Vanuza Araujo, 43, fell ill last week and yesterday took the mother to the hospital. "When it rains, go out to foil the tap," he said.
The city says that the surveillance did tests on the water and found nothing abnormal.
For the manager of the urgencies of city hall, Augusto Bustamante, still can not tell if the cause of the outbreak is a bacterium (transmitted by food or water) or a virus (transmitted through the air) because the number of cases tested yet not allow the conclusion .
Conclusive results should have in 30 days. "The lab Fleury warned that Norovirus could affect the coast," he said.
Celso Granato, infectious Fleury says the lab made the warning based on reports of the virus in some vessels. However, he asserts that the norovirus is usually spread indoors.