Ecuador: 2015 Chikungunya - 27,000+ cases

[Shiloh]

Source: http://outbreaknewstoday.com/ecuador-city-declares-chikungunya-state-of-emergency-52845/

Ecuador city declares chikungunya ?state of emergency?
Posted by Robert Herriman on March 8, 2015

The northwestern Ecuadorian city of Esmeraldas has declared a state of emergency due to the spread of chikungunya, according to a Globedia report (computer translated)...

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Three thousand new infections of chikungunya in Ecuador

June 5, 2015 22:23

A jump of more than three thousand cases of chikungunya fever occurred in the last week in Ecuador , reaching 15,730 statistics to the Ecuadorian territory, the Ministry of Health. A week ago, Health announced that there were 12,583 infected nationwide, with the highest incidence in the coastal provinces of Esmeraldas , Manabi and Guayas .

​For a week, health authorities joined in the work of disease control elements military he trained for the tasks spraying stagnant water where the mosquito breeds Aedes aegypti, vector of fever. The disease appeared in October 2014 in Ecuador with their first native case and has since maintained a campaign that asks to eliminate potential breeding population of mosquitoes .

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[Gert van der Hoek]

june 12, 2015

Chikungunya fever spreads in Ecuador

Cases of chikungunya fever in Ecuador increased by more than a week in 2000, now reaching 17 855 people, reported June 12 the Ministry of Health in Quito. The previous week had recorded 15 730 cases. Almost 50% of patients are registered in the province of Esmeraldas, Manabi 36% and 11% in Guayas, all coastal provinces. In Health epidemiological report, two fatal cases related to chikungunya, which are two male patients 60 and 83, both also with hypertension and other ailments, who died days after treatments were officially recorded.

The information says that the age group most affected is between 20 and 49 years and is the female which has more damages. Health ensures that among 199 infected foreigners from Colombia, Venezuela and Cuba, mainly include. The first imported case of fever was reported in October 2014 in Ecuador and then in December of that year the first indigenous case.

To combat this disease joined two weeks of military contingents that eliminate mosquito breeding ago. On Wednesday June 10, the Ministry of Health announced the start of a national Minga for families destroyed wells and backwaters sites to eliminate mosquito breeding Aedes Aegytus, transmitter of dengue and chikungunya fevers.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Chikungunya fever passes the 27,000 cases in Ecuador

Date: July 10, 2015

Quito, July 10 (DPA) - The chikungunya fever rose to 27 332 cases in Ecuador after registering 3,324 new infections in the past two weeks, said the Ministry of Health. In the epidemiological monitoring of the Ministry of Health it shows that cases increased from 24.008 on June 24 to 26 065 on 1 July. The 27 332 registered infections now represent a slowdown caused by changing weather conditions, said the portfolio.

Chikungunya patients are residents of the coastal provinces of Esmeraldas, Guayas and Manabi, while in other regions it is under the number affected by the disease.

The first case of chikungunya fever in Ecuador occurred in August 2014, with characteristics of "imported" and in December of that year as the first "indigenous" case with no history of the disease in the country was recorded.

Health authorities have adopted measures over the entire period to help the infected and prevention, especially the fight Aeades aegypti mosquito breeding sites which are vectors of disease.