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Archive Number 20100517.1623
Published Date 17-MAY-2010
Subject PRO / ESP> Anthrax, human, outbreak - Colombia (Guajira)
ANTHRAX, HUMAN, BUD - COLOMBIA (Guajira)
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A statement by ProMED-mail
<http://www.promedmail.org>
ProMED-mail is a program
International Society for Infectious Diseases
<http://www.isid.org>
Date: May 17, 2010
Source: RNV, Venezuela
<http://www.rnv.gov.ve/noticias/index.php?act=ST&f=36&t=127692>
[Edited by J. Torres]
Colombian health officials confirmed a positive case
Anthrax Anthrax in a northern town Indian girl of the Wayuu
and investigated if two women could die of the same disease,
Government sources said Bogot?.
The case was confirmed by the National Institute of Health (NIH), which
received ten samples of residents of the aboriginal community, settled in
La Guajira, department peninsular border with Venezuela,
to extending the presence of the same ethnicity.
The Ministry of Social Welfare (health and work) said in a
reported that, in these samples, six were negative and three
"Are still under study."
The other was positive for anthrax, said the agency
government, requiring that the patient is a 13-year
lives in a village (hamlet) in the city guajira
Manaure.
The outbreak was confirmed by a health committee that visited
For three days the Caribbean region to investigate the possibility of
antrhacis_ _Bacillus presence, the cause of this disease
infectious.
The samples were taken at ten Indians who had "
presented skin lesions suggestive of the disease and they accuse
have had contact with dead sheep and goats, "said
Ministry of Social Protection.
The expert committee also studied the history of
two indigenous women who died "with a picture compatible with
cellulitis and sepsis to determine the possible relationship with this
illness. "
In the area were "mild cutaneous cases, some of which
had already been resolved (healed) "as stated by the committee
comprised of experts from the Pan American Health Organization
(OPS), Ministry of Agriculture, the INS and the National Institute
Food and Drug Monitoring (Invima), besides the Ministry
Social Protection.
The experts, who traveled to the region last Thursday,
working in the "active case finding in humans and animals
epidemiological surveillance and disease control in eight villages of
Riohacha (the provincial capital) and Manaure "said the source.
In addition, the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA, officer) ordered
vaccination "or plague coal bacteridiano ray" a goat and
sheep in the villages at risk.
The same institution took blood samples from animals that died
suddenly, to establish whether or died from dehydration
by the disease.
Reported by: Jaime R. Torres <torresjaime@cantv.net>
- ProMED-ESP
Spanish to English translationShow romanization
Archive Number 20100517.1623
Published Date 17-MAY-2010
Subject PRO / ESP> Anthrax, human, outbreak - Colombia (Guajira)
ANTHRAX, HUMAN, BUD - COLOMBIA (Guajira)
************************************************** ****
A statement by ProMED-mail
<http://www.promedmail.org>
ProMED-mail is a program
International Society for Infectious Diseases
<http://www.isid.org>
Date: May 17, 2010
Source: RNV, Venezuela
<http://www.rnv.gov.ve/noticias/index.php?act=ST&f=36&t=127692>
[Edited by J. Torres]
Colombian health officials confirmed a positive case
Anthrax Anthrax in a northern town Indian girl of the Wayuu
and investigated if two women could die of the same disease,
Government sources said Bogot?.
The case was confirmed by the National Institute of Health (NIH), which
received ten samples of residents of the aboriginal community, settled in
La Guajira, department peninsular border with Venezuela,
to extending the presence of the same ethnicity.
The Ministry of Social Welfare (health and work) said in a
reported that, in these samples, six were negative and three
"Are still under study."
The other was positive for anthrax, said the agency
government, requiring that the patient is a 13-year
lives in a village (hamlet) in the city guajira
Manaure.
The outbreak was confirmed by a health committee that visited
For three days the Caribbean region to investigate the possibility of
antrhacis_ _Bacillus presence, the cause of this disease
infectious.
The samples were taken at ten Indians who had "
presented skin lesions suggestive of the disease and they accuse
have had contact with dead sheep and goats, "said
Ministry of Social Protection.
The expert committee also studied the history of
two indigenous women who died "with a picture compatible with
cellulitis and sepsis to determine the possible relationship with this
illness. "
In the area were "mild cutaneous cases, some of which
had already been resolved (healed) "as stated by the committee
comprised of experts from the Pan American Health Organization
(OPS), Ministry of Agriculture, the INS and the National Institute
Food and Drug Monitoring (Invima), besides the Ministry
Social Protection.
The experts, who traveled to the region last Thursday,
working in the "active case finding in humans and animals
epidemiological surveillance and disease control in eight villages of
Riohacha (the provincial capital) and Manaure "said the source.
In addition, the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA, officer) ordered
vaccination "or plague coal bacteridiano ray" a goat and
sheep in the villages at risk.
The same institution took blood samples from animals that died
suddenly, to establish whether or died from dehydration
by the disease.
Reported by: Jaime R. Torres <torresjaime@cantv.net>
- ProMED-ESP
