Chile-Health Authority confirms hantavirus death in Lakes Region

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Health Authority confirms hantavirus death in Lakes Region

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Send by mail was confirmed hantavirus death of a 43-year-old Los Muermos, who died on Tuesday 4 January.

Through Hantavirus Epidemiological Bulletin of the Ministry of Health, said the last confirmed case of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome "corresponded to a person resident in the town of Los Muermos, who died of the disease and had a history worker serving as agricultural forest. "

It is recalled that the deceased was in Chaquihu?n sector, where health authorities conducted an epidemiological investigation to determine the environmental conditions and risk factors conducive to the spread of this virus.

To date this case is the only confirmed by the health authority hantavirus death, after the results of the blood sample sent to the Institute of Public Health in Santiago.

As the brother of the deceased farmer, reached the base hospital emergency Puerto Montt expressing headaches, so she underwent a rapid test for hantavirus found negative, and just in case you took a blood sample IPS that was sent to Santiago

However, the health authority categorically dismiss one second transmission of Hanta virus in the region, denying information circulated by the web portal of a local newspaper.

 

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Re: Chile-Health Authority confirms hantavirus death in Lakes Region

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Published Date 08-MAR-2011
Subject PRO/AH/EDR> Hantavirus update 2011 - Americas (10): Chile, susp
HANTAVIRUS UPDATE 2011 - AMERICAS (10): CHILE, SUSPECTED
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Date: Mon 7 Mar 2011
Source: Radio Bio-Bio [in Spanish, trans. Mod.TY, edited]
<http://www.radiobiobio.cl/2011/03/07/isp-investiga-posible-caso-de-virus-hanta-en-la-calera/>


Based on exclusive information provided to La Radio, an official of
the Health SEREMI [las Secretar?*as Regionales Ministeriales de Salud;
Regional Ministerial Secretariat], Jaime Jamett, confirmed the
occurrence of a suspected case of [a] hantavirus [infection] in the La
Calera community. Although the health authority declined to give
information about the history of the affected individual, he stated
the clinical samples were sent to the Public Health Institute for
their testing and confirmation, or not, of the disease [virus
infection].

The patient presumably infected [with the virus] is being treated in
the Los Leones de la Calera Clinic.

The SEREMI official Jaime Jamett told La Radio that since 1995 up to
the present, 14 confirmed cases of hantavirus [infection] have been
detected [in this area], which represents a little more than 2 per
cent at the national level, with the most recent one documented last
year [2010] in the Maitenes en Casablanca locale, where a 40 year old
woman died as a result of a critical illness called "hantavirus
cardiopulmonary syndrome," in which 50 per cent of patients end up
losing their lives.

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[As is usual, the specific hantavirus involved with suspected or
confirmed cases of hantavirus infection in Chile is not indicated. The
virus most likely to be responsible for the above case is Andes virus,
with the long-tailed pygmy rice rat as its rodent host.

An image of the long-tailed pygmy rice rat (_Oligoryzomys
longicaudatus_), the sigmodontine rodent host of Andes hantavirus, can
be seen at <http://www.bios.niu.edu/frayjorge/rod6.jpg>.

A map showing the location of the Biobio area can be accessed at
<http://www.maplandia.com/chile/biobio/>. A HealthMap/ProMED-mail
interactive map of Chile showing the area of the suspected case can be
accessed at <http://healthmap.org/r/006H>. - Mod.TY]

[see also:
Hantavirus update 2011 - Americas (09): Chile, susp. 20110304.0715
Hantavirus update 2011 - Americas (07): Chile (BI) susp
20110211.0464
Hantavirus update 2011 - Americas (04): Chile, Argentina
20110122.0262
Hantavirus update 2011 - Americas (02): Chile, conf. 20110111.0132
Hantavirus update 2011 - Americas: Chile, USA 20110106.007
2010
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Hantavirus update 2010 - Americas (23): Chile (BI) 20100506.1476
Hantavirus update 2010 - Americas (21): Chile, Argentina
20100427.1357
Hantavirus update 2010 - Americas (16): Argentina, Chile
20100407.1125]
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Re: Chile-Health Authority confirms hantavirus death in Lakes Region

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Sunday March 13, 2011

ISP confirm whether young mother died from Hanta

FRANCE LIZAMA F.
Again a possible Hanta virus outbreak alerts to the community of La Araucan?a. This time it's Paulina Garcia Alvarez, 27, who reportedly died last Friday at the German Clinic product of this virus infection.
The professional, who worked as a paramedic in the same medical center, he would have caught this virus during a visit to Lake Colico, located near Cunco. The trip would have done during their vacation with relatives who are under observation.
TESTS
As pointed out by Waldo Armstrong, Acting Health SEREMI not yet confirmed the case, but the rapid detection test had positive results in the first instance.
"We are hoping that the results are confirmed by the Institute of Public Health to proceed with the epidemiological investigation," said Armstrong.
According to the local authority reviews should arrive on Monday, with the case of the young mother of the year the first case of possible infection.
The Hanta has as main symptoms of high fever in a previously healthy person, chills, headache, musculoskeletal pain and gastrointestinal symptoms similar to flu.
The fever is accompanied by difficulty breathing (respiratory distress) without a known cause, which requires supplemental oxygen within 72 hours of hospitalization.