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34 live births with microcephaly investigates the INS in Colombia
01/04/2016 15:05 by ins
Bogot?, DC, March 28, 2016.- The National Institute of Health (NIH) reported that of the 50 reported cases with microcephaly in the country during 2016, 16 cases have been discarded, leaving 34 cases under study, arising from multiple causes . This represents an increase of 13 percent compared to cases expected to Week 11, considering that annually 140 cases of this disease occur throughout the country.
According to statistics Epidemiological Surveillance System (SIVIGILA) epidemic zika reported 2,361 confirmed cases of disease by Zika virus and 56,477 suspected cases. Additionally, there are 997 confirmed pregnant with Zika and 9,815 cases of pregnant women who report having had symptoms consistent with Zika.
For the same period 381 neurological syndromes of which 258 are Syndromes associated with Guillain Barre syndrome were reported Zika.
"Of the 33 countries with indigenous virus circulation zika, Colombia is the nation that more laboratory tests carried out according to reports of the Pan American Health Organization. We have a surveillance system that features one by one all the people who consult health services with symptoms of this disease, which represents the best statistical series of the region, "said Fernando Ruiz G?mez, Deputy Minister of Public Health and Provision Services.
In this regard, Martha Lucia Ospina Martinez, General Director of INS, said: "Colombia has studied 50 cases of microcephaly and balance until the eleventh week epidemiologically shows that in addition to the 16 original discarded, 2 additional cases have been dismissed for zika; He even leaving 32 cases under study, "he said.
The director emphasized that only 14 countries in the region - of the 33 that have indigenous circulation of zika- count no laboratory-confirmed cases, logging into their surveillance systems as suspects and are Colombia, Brazil, Honduras, Venezuela, Martinique, Salvador, Suriname, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Barbados, Saint Martin and the Virgin Islands. "For this reason it is wrong to compare with the other 18 nations that do not record these cases, as have some critics to the actions taken by the Government".
Finally he reported that the countries in the region reported an increase in cases of Guillain Barre syndrome attributed to zika. However, in cases with microcephaly and other neurological birth defects, only Brazil reported cases, reporting that 907 cases and Panama have recently reported on one partner that is being studied.
http://www.ins.gov.co/Noticias/Pagin...-Colombia.aspx
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01/04/2016 15:05 by ins
Bogot?, DC, March 28, 2016.- The National Institute of Health (NIH) reported that of the 50 reported cases with microcephaly in the country during 2016, 16 cases have been discarded, leaving 34 cases under study, arising from multiple causes . This represents an increase of 13 percent compared to cases expected to Week 11, considering that annually 140 cases of this disease occur throughout the country.
According to statistics Epidemiological Surveillance System (SIVIGILA) epidemic zika reported 2,361 confirmed cases of disease by Zika virus and 56,477 suspected cases. Additionally, there are 997 confirmed pregnant with Zika and 9,815 cases of pregnant women who report having had symptoms consistent with Zika.
For the same period 381 neurological syndromes of which 258 are Syndromes associated with Guillain Barre syndrome were reported Zika.
"Of the 33 countries with indigenous virus circulation zika, Colombia is the nation that more laboratory tests carried out according to reports of the Pan American Health Organization. We have a surveillance system that features one by one all the people who consult health services with symptoms of this disease, which represents the best statistical series of the region, "said Fernando Ruiz G?mez, Deputy Minister of Public Health and Provision Services.
In this regard, Martha Lucia Ospina Martinez, General Director of INS, said: "Colombia has studied 50 cases of microcephaly and balance until the eleventh week epidemiologically shows that in addition to the 16 original discarded, 2 additional cases have been dismissed for zika; He even leaving 32 cases under study, "he said.
The director emphasized that only 14 countries in the region - of the 33 that have indigenous circulation of zika- count no laboratory-confirmed cases, logging into their surveillance systems as suspects and are Colombia, Brazil, Honduras, Venezuela, Martinique, Salvador, Suriname, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Barbados, Saint Martin and the Virgin Islands. "For this reason it is wrong to compare with the other 18 nations that do not record these cases, as have some critics to the actions taken by the Government".
Finally he reported that the countries in the region reported an increase in cases of Guillain Barre syndrome attributed to zika. However, in cases with microcephaly and other neurological birth defects, only Brazil reported cases, reporting that 907 cases and Panama have recently reported on one partner that is being studied.
http://www.ins.gov.co/Noticias/Pagin...-Colombia.aspx
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