Re: Chili Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis
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Hydatidosis: a parasitic disease can be fatal
It is a condition that can be transmitted from one dog to a human being, can be fatal if not detected early. In Chile, officially recorded between 300 and 400 cases per year, but thinks the real figure is over a thousand.
By Jessica Ramos V.
SANTIAGO, Nov. 18 .- We tend to think that the most dangerous thing is a dog could transmit rabies, but no, there are other parasitic disease can be lethal.
This is the Echinococcosis, a disease which, according to Chief of Epidemiology of Health Seremi, Jose Rodriguez, is increasing in the region of O 'Higgins. Even been the case in Chile two children infected with this evil, one is a girl who had to be moved from Puerto Natales major product of peritoneal hydatidosis.
Carlos Pavletic, vectors and zoonoses responsible for the Ministry of Health, explained that it is a disease "notifiable".
Each year we are having about 300 or 400 cases of hydatidosis in Chile. But when the comparison is made between cases that are reported and the studies that show the number of people who are discharged from the hospital by this problem, we find that there is a difference of 4 to 1, meaning that if We are reporting 300 people a year, reality is 1,200 people a year who suffer from this disease, "says.
In any case, the expert tells us that we can say that the number of cases throughout Chile are stable, everything depends on the sector. "For example in areas such as Ays?n are taking between 30 and 36 cases of hydatid disease per 100 thousand inhabitants, Magellan was a work of control, is between 10 and 12 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants per year, in Santiago is less because this situation mostly occurs in areas where livestock are minor, such as sheep and goats, "he adds.
