Colombia - Zika virus rose 15.4 percent in the last week to 42,706 cases, including 7,653 pregnant women

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Number of infected Zika virus in Colombia rises 15.4 pct to 42,706

Saturday February 27, 2016 9:11 EDT

BOGOTA (Reuters) - The number of people infected by the virus Zika in Colombia rose 15.4 percent in the last week to 42,706 cases, including 7,653 pregnant women, said Saturday the National Institute of Health.

The report said that in the last week the number of pregnant women who contracted the virus increased 20.4 percent. Colombia is the second country with more cases of Zika in Latin America and the Caribbean after Brazil.

Of the total cases reported, 67.2 percent was recorded in women and the remaining 32.8 percent in men.

So far the Colombian health authorities have reported a probable case of microcephaly related to Zika and the death of three patients of Guillain-Barre syndrome that were previously diagnosed with the virus.
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(Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta and Nelson Bocanegra. Editing by Steve Addison)

http://lta.reuters.com/article/topNews/idLTAKCN0W00IA?sp=true

 

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From government report:

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From confirmation of Zika virus circulating in the country
and the beginning of the epidemic phase (from epidemiological week
40 of 2015), up to epidemiological week 07, 2016, they have
reported 1612 laboratory confirmed cases, distributed
34 of the 37 local authorities,

34 464 confirmed cases
clinic from 32 of the 37 territorial entities and 6630
suspected cases from 32 of the 37 entities
territorial.

To date, 42,706 cases have been reported of
Zika virus disease throughout the national territory.

In the
Epidemiological Week 07, 2016, 5,695 cases were reported
new, 3,344 cases of week 07 and 2351 weeks
above. Weekly number of reported cases
checks because of late notification of the event, adjustments and
debugging data quality. For North provenance
Santander, Huila, Tolima, Cundinamarca and Barranquilla record the
58.7% of cases

Since the beginning of the epidemic phase of the disease to
epidemiological week 07 of 2016 have been reported 7653
Zika cases in women who are pregnant, residents
34 territorial entities and 493 municipalities. Of these, 522 pregnant
have results for RT-PCR positive notified by the laboratory
INS virology, reported 6078 confirmed pregnant by
Clinical and 1,053 pregnant women reported as suspected of
disease.


http://www.ins.gov.co/boletin-epide...gico/2016 Boletin epidemiologico semana 7.pdf