Chile: 2019 Hantavirus

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Source: https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias...-en-la-region-de-los-lagos-de-este-2019.shtml

Domingo 06 enero de 2019 | Publicado a las 14:47
Confirman primer caso de Virus Hanta en la regi?n de Los Lagos de este 2019
Por Ariela Mu?oz
La informaci?n es de Carlos Arismendi

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Sunday 06 January 2019 | Posted at 14:47
Confirm first case of Hanta Virus in the Los Lagos region of this 2019
By Ariela Mu?oz
The information is from Carlos Arismendi

The Seremi de Salud of the region of Los Lagos confirmed the existence of the first case of Hanta Virus of the year in the area. She is an official of the Palena Health Service.

The woman was transferred to Santiago because of her delicate state of health, after confirming the infection.

The samples applied to the patient were sent to the Hospital of the Catholic University, and the presence of the virus in her body was confirmed by the Institute of Public Health (ISP).

This forced her to be admitted to the Hospital del T?rax in Santiago, where she has not had a good evolution, according to Marcela C?rdenas, seremi (S) of Health in Los Lagos.

The infection would have occurred in the Argentine town of Epuy?n, located 4 hours from Palena. At the moment 19 people have been affected.
Symptoms and infection

The disease is transmitted by contact with urine, saliva and excreta from infected rodents. It can also be transmitted from person to person, by close contact with patients during the initial period of the febrile episode, that is, in the first 48 to 72 hours.

Symptoms of the virus are fever, muscle aches, vomiting and difficulty breathing in advanced stages.

 

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Source: https://www.ahoranoticias.cl/notici...o-caso-de-2019-en-la-region-de-los-lagos.html

Virus Hanta: Confirman segundo caso de 2019 en la regi?n de Los Lagos
El hombre afectado habr?a contra?do el virus en un camping en la localidad de Fresia.
10 de Enero de 2019 Icono reloj 19:16

Google translation: Hanta virus: Confirmed second case of 2019 in the Los Lagos region
The affected man would have contracted the virus in a campsite in the town of Fresia.
January 10, 2019 Clock icon 19:16

A new case of Hanta Virus infection was registered in the Los Lagos region. This time it is a man of 48 years, who attended the hospital in Puerto Montt after being afflicted by a picture of fever, myalgia and headache.

"Because of the clinical symptoms presented by the patient, the rapid test was performed," Raul Bastidas, Health Seremi of Los Lagos, told Cooperativa. "It came out positive and the determination was made to refer him to Temuco Hospital," he concluded.

It was in the health care facility in the region of La Araucan?a where the patient underwent a second test that confirmed the spread of the hanta virus.

Preliminary information indicates that the man would have contracted the virus in a campsite - where he recently went for a walk - in the rural area of ​​Fresia.

This case becomes the second in the region so far in 2019, after the January 8 confirmed that a Palena health official contracted the virus in an unusual way; from person to person.

 

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Source: https://www.tn8.tv/america-latina/4...arta-victima-del-hantavirus-en-chile-en-2019/

Una mujer de 41 a?os, cuarta v?ctima del hantavirus en Chile en 2019
Por: EFE || Publicado: 29 de Enero de 2019 || Hora: 9:30 a.m..


Google translation: A 41-year-old woman, fourth victim of hantavirus in Chile in 2019
By: EFE || Posted: January 29, 2019 || Time: 9:30 a.m.

Santiago de Chile, Jan 28 (EFE) .- A 41-year-old woman, who died in the Chilean southern region of ?uble, became the fourth victim of the hantavirus, according to the health authority in the area.

The ministerial regional secretary of Health of ?uble, Marta Bravo, told reporters that the deceased was identified as Yerlia Figueroa Loyola, a native of the town of San Pedro de la Paz, 507 kilometers south of Santiago.

Bravo said that the victim died at the Regional Hospital of Concepci?n, where she was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, after arriving from a summer resort in the Yungay district.

An 18-year-old girl who also was infected in the same place with the virus, remains hospitalized in the same establishment "but stable and her condition evolves favorably," said the senior official.

He noted that the presence of quila, a botanical species of grass of the same family of bamboo, was observed in the camp, a bush that is the food of the field mouse or "long-tailed" (Oligoryzomis Longicaudatos) known reservoir of the virus.


He confirmed that a sanitary summary was opened against the site that was left with an absolute prohibition of operation due to the lack of sanitary authorization.


This is the fourth case with the result of death by contagion of this virus so far this year, whose initial symptoms are similar to those of influenza, but later there are renal and pulmonary complications, which in 40% of cases cause the death.

Chile is a country where the virus is endemic -between the Valpara?so region and the Ays?n region-, so cases may appear throughout the year, although there is an increase in summer, because there is more tourism and exposure to rural areas .

A person can be contagious when exposed to environments with rodents, being the most frequent through the respiratory tract.

It is also possible to consume contaminated food or water, be bitten by the mouse, take the animal with bare hands and then touch your nose, eyes or mouth.

It is even possible that the virus is spread from person to person - although it is low frequency - by fluid contact.

 

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Source: https://www.diarioconcepcion.cl/ciu...r-caso-de-hanta-en-la-region-del-bio-bio.html


Confirman primer caso de hanta en la Regi?n del B?o B?o
Por: Diario Concepci?n | 30 de Enero 2019

Google translation:
Confirmed first case of hanta in the Region of B?o B?o
By: Diario Concepci?n | January 30, 2019

The Health Seremi, Hector Mu?oz, confirmed the first case of hantavirus contagion of the year in the Region, corresponding to a 37-year-old man, who consulted at Laja Hospital.

The initial hypothesis of contagion is the movement of straw that he made within his work activity, in the rural sector of Laja, a fact that will be subject to corroboration after environmental epidemiological research that will begin today.

According to the Health Seremi, despite how complicated the hantavirus can be, the patient is in good health and has returned to work.

At the national level, nine confirmed cases are registered, two of them in Maule, two in Los Lagos, two in ?uble, one in B?o B?o and two in study.

In 2018 in the Region, including ?uble, eight cases were registered (four in ?uble, three in B?o B?o and one in Arauco), without registering lethality. At the country level, meanwhile, 33 cases were counted, with seven deaths, which is equivalent to a lethality of 21.1%.

The regional case profile reveals that 87.8% corresponds to male and 12.5% ​​female, with a median age of 32.5 years; the majority, 37.5%, correspond to forestry workers and, in terms of risk, 25% had exposure for rural excursion, 25% for work and 50% for rural residence.

It should be noted that in 2011, 24 people were transfused with hyperimmune serum and, so far this year, six patients were transfused, one discarded by ISP, three alive and 2 deceased. One of the deceased corresponds to ?uble.

 

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Source: https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias...nta-en-el-maule-tambien-esta-contagiada.shtml

S?bado 30 marzo de 2019 | Publicado a las 11:50
T?a de beb? que muri? por Hanta en el Maule tambi?n est? contagiada
Por Leonardo Casas
La informaci?n es de Diario El Centro
Francisco Castillo | ARCHIVO | Agencia UNO

Google translation:
Saturday, March 30, 2019 | Posted at 11:50
Aunt of baby who died by Hanta in the Maule is also infected
By Leonardo Casas
The information is from Diario El Centro
Francisco Castillo | ARCHIVE | UNO Agency

The Institute of Public Health (ISP) confirmed case number 11 of Hantavirus in the Maule, corresponding to a 27-year-old woman residing in Talca, but who was transferred to the UC Christus Clinical Hospital in Santiago, to receive timely and specific treatment.

According to the Maule Health Seremi, Marlenne Dur?n, it is "a case that is likely to be a person-to-person contagion, because it is a 27-year-old woman who was the guardian of the one-month-old baby He died on March 13, 2009, by Hanta. "

It turns out that the girl is a relative of the mother of the infant who died of the virus, a woman who was also infected. While the mother was receiving treatment at the Higueras Hospital in Talcahuano, in the region of B?o B?o, the aunt stayed taking care of the newborn baby in the hospital in Talca, instances in which the infection could have been caused.

"She had direct contact with the newborn and with the secretions of this baby, when she was hospitalized in Talca. During those days, Hanta was still not confirmed in the baby. Later it was confirmed that he acquired the virus through breast milk. It is a case that we regret very much, because the family has had a terrible time, "said the health authority.

He recalled that the grandfather of the baby was the first to have Hanta virus in the family, then the mother of the baby, then the baby itself and, now, the mother's cousin, who served as the child's guardian. The first three patients are domiciled in Parral.
Stable condition

As for the health status of the patient, the Seremi maintained that "it is stable, yesterday I only had a little fever, but the thrombocytopenia, the platelets, everything is fine. We have consulted again and it continues well, the most probable thing is that it gives smoothly. In any case, in a preventive way it is better to be in Santiago, where there is all the equipment you may need ".

El Maule leads the case rate at country level of Hanta virus, with 11 cases to date, of which four patients have died. Nationwide there have been 36 cases in total, with eight deaths due to the Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome.

Faced with this unfavorable scenario and the highly rural reality of the region, the seremi dispatched an office to the management of the Maule Health Service (SSM) in order to have, in the medium term, an ECMO (membrane oxygenation) equipment. extracorporeal), to avoid referrals of infected patients and to reduce access times to treatment.
"Very rare"

The Health Seremi stressed that "these cases (of contagion between humans) are very rare, exceptional and represent 1% of all cases of Hanta. It is given by a very close contact as it was in this case, where the tutor was in contact with the secretions and urine of the newborn. The young woman did not always occupy the corresponding protection as a mask. The call is to calm down and take preventive measures throughout the year, not just in the summer. "

 

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Source: https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias...n-los-rios-seria-el-quinto-en-la-region.shtml

Jueves 04 abril de 2019 | Publicado a las 15:00 ? Actualizado a las 17:50
Confirman nuevo caso sospechoso de contagio de virus Hanta en Los R?os: ser?a el quinto en la regi?n

Google translation:
Thursday April 04, 2019 | Posted at 3:00 p.m. ? Updated at 5:50 p.m.
Confirmed new suspect case of Hanta virus infection in Los R?os: it would be the fifth in the region
By Manuel Stuardo
With information from Paulo D?az.
Francisco Castillo | ARCHIVE | UNO Agency

The Seremi de Salud in Los R?os confirmed a new suspect case of Hanta virus infection on Thursday afternoon.

If confirmed the presence of the disease, this would be the fifth in the region and the fourth in the commune of Corral.

It would be a 52-year-old woman who tested positive in the rapid test.

During this Wednesday another suspicious case was found, which corresponds to a man from the same commune, who was transferred to the Temuco hospital.

In both cases, we are waiting for the corresponding exams to confirm the presence of the virus.

 

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Source: https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias...a-en-nina-de-10-anos-oriunda-de-limache.shtml

Martes 09 abril de 2019 | Publicado a las 19:13
Confirman caso de virus Hanta en ni?a de 10 a?os oriunda de Limache
Por Manuel Cabrera
La informaci?n es de Ignacio Caballero

Google translation:
During the afternoon of Tuesday, the Institute of Public Health confirmed a case of Hanta virus that affects a child under 10 years old from Limache.

Due to the aforementioned, the girl is admitted in a stable state within her seriousness at the Roberto del R?o Hospital in Santiago.

The sanitary authorities could verify that the affected one met with friends in the Cerro Huinca, previous to contract the symptoms of the Hanta virus, which meant that she was transferred to the Santo Tom?s de Limache Hospital, but due to her condition she had to be referred to the Hospital Gustavo Fricke from Vi?a del Mar and later to the capital.

At first, the suspicion of the disease had to do with the fact that the family of the young woman affected lives in a rural area of ​​the aforementioned commune.

From the Ministry of Health, they pointed out that about 17 years ago there was no similar case in the city.

Similarly, a woman from La Cruz, died in February inside the Quillota Hospital affected by the deadly disease.