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Zika reveal eight people have Guillain-Barre syndrome
09/03/2016 12:00 AM - WANDER SANTANA
Uce says that patients developed the disease after having contracted the virus, but Public Health says only two cases recorded
The UCE Medical Center has treated eight people in the last two months that have developed Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) after being infected with the virus Zika. The information was disclosed to THE CARIBBEAN by the medical director of the hospital private, Dr. Carlos Tavares Rodriguez, who did not hide his astonishment at the situation, because, in his words, " it is very strange that so many cases of GBS were detected in the same place and in such a short time."
"Since its inception the outbreak of zika in the Dominican Republic, this center has been treating patients with various complications from this virus and we hospitalized in two months to eight patients with Guillain-Barr? syndrome secondary to zika "he said. in addition, explained that cases registered in the UCE Medical Center are both children and adults, male and female.
He also clarified that the SGB is not developed exclusively for patients diagnosed with zika or dengue. "One complication as the SGB is not unique zika can develop people who have had dengue and flu. It is a syndrome that affects the nervous system and characterized in that the patient begins to lose mobility from the feet to the upper parts of the body , "he said.
Patients with SGB who have been treated at the UCE Medical Center have managed to be stabilized, according to Tavares. However, the director of strategic communications at the Ministry of Public Health, Carlos Rodriguez, said that the National Epidemiological Surveillance System there is only registered two cases of people with the SGB. According to information published in the City Oriental.org digital portal, now in the UCE Medical Center there is an internal professor at the intensive care unit that has the SGB. It was confirmed that it has about six days entered in place.
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http://www.elcaribe.com.do/2016/03/09/clinica-uce-registra-8-casos-zika-con-guillainbarre
Zika reveal eight people have Guillain-Barre syndrome
09/03/2016 12:00 AM - WANDER SANTANA
Uce says that patients developed the disease after having contracted the virus, but Public Health says only two cases recorded
The UCE Medical Center has treated eight people in the last two months that have developed Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) after being infected with the virus Zika. The information was disclosed to THE CARIBBEAN by the medical director of the hospital private, Dr. Carlos Tavares Rodriguez, who did not hide his astonishment at the situation, because, in his words, " it is very strange that so many cases of GBS were detected in the same place and in such a short time."
"Since its inception the outbreak of zika in the Dominican Republic, this center has been treating patients with various complications from this virus and we hospitalized in two months to eight patients with Guillain-Barr? syndrome secondary to zika "he said. in addition, explained that cases registered in the UCE Medical Center are both children and adults, male and female.
He also clarified that the SGB is not developed exclusively for patients diagnosed with zika or dengue. "One complication as the SGB is not unique zika can develop people who have had dengue and flu. It is a syndrome that affects the nervous system and characterized in that the patient begins to lose mobility from the feet to the upper parts of the body , "he said.
Patients with SGB who have been treated at the UCE Medical Center have managed to be stabilized, according to Tavares. However, the director of strategic communications at the Ministry of Public Health, Carlos Rodriguez, said that the National Epidemiological Surveillance System there is only registered two cases of people with the SGB. According to information published in the City Oriental.org digital portal, now in the UCE Medical Center there is an internal professor at the intensive care unit that has the SGB. It was confirmed that it has about six days entered in place.
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http://www.elcaribe.com.do/2016/03/09/clinica-uce-registra-8-casos-zika-con-guillainbarre