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Confirmed 245 cases of malaria in the Cusco region-Peru

Tonka

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http://www.larepublica.pe/archive/all/larepublica/20110209/24/node/326255/todos/13
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Confirmed 245 cases of malaria in the Cusco region-Peru

Symptoms. Patient headache, sweating and others. Pichari is the district with the highest number of infected: 154. Quimbiri and Quellouno followed.

Alert in the Imperial City. A total of 245 proven cases of malaria reported the Health Services Network in the province of La Convencion, in the Cusco region, until the last week of January.

According to the intelligence chief of the epidemiology of this entity, Carlos Ramos Vera, this disease has occurred in the Valley of Yanatile, The Convention and VRAE, but the number of cases varies according to each location. The area of most concern is the district of Pichari, as here recorded the highest number of cases: 154.

In Quimbiri 33, Quellouno 15, Vilcabamba 14, Santa Ana 9, Echarati 3 cases and Yanatile Calca province has 18 cases.

Disease

But how does this disease to humans? Malaria is an infectious disease caused by a parasite and transmitted by the bite of the Anopheles mosquito, which causes fever, chills, sweating and headache. Furthermore, the patient may have other symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, coughing, bloody stools, muscle pain, kidney or liver failure, central nervous system disorders and even coma.

The mosquito lays its eggs in places where water collects as wetlands and easily reproduced when the temperature increases and rainfall.
 
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