Guatemala: Dengue 2013 & 2014

[Ronan Kelly]

google translated;

Wednesday July 24, 2013, 2:34 pm
Killed two children with dengue hemorrhagic fever in Guatemala

Guatemalan authorities confirmed Wednesday that two five years have died of dengue hemorrhagic virus that has left the country nearly three thousand 700 people affected by dengue fever.
http://www.telesurtv.net/articulos/...por-dengue-hemorragico-en-guatemala-8481.html

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Guatemala: Dengue 2013

Re: Guatemala: Dengue 2013

google translated;

At least two dead from hemorrhagic dengue in Caribbean Guatemala in 2014
AFP
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Jorge Villavicencio reported Monday."The behavior we have had to date throughout the country are 845 cases of dengue fever and two deaths" by the bleeding, the minister said at a press conference.
The official said the two fatalities were recorded in the department of Izabal , about 295 kilometers northeast of the capital.However, he ruled that two other deaths in the same region of the Caribbean were due to this disease.
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l.Last year Central was affected by a dengue epidemic that caused 50 deaths and sickened 85,000, as reported by health region.
http://www.teletica.com/Noticias/46...gico-en-Caribe-guatemalteco-en-2014.note.aspx

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Guatemala: Dengue 2013 & 2014

computertranslation

Guatemala declared a red alert for suspected dengue deaths

JUNE 21, 2014

Health of a municipality in Guatemala near the border with Mexico authorities declared a red alert four suspected dengue deaths reported Saturday an official source.

The measure took effect Friday afternoon in the town of Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango department, located about 250 km southwest of Guatemala City, said a member of the commission investigating the causes of the deaths, Adolfo Miranda.

Dengue is a viral disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which thrives in the rainy season between May and November, and its main symptoms are fever, headache, joints and abdomen. You can become life-threatening, in which case it is known as dengue hemorrhagic or serious.

Miranda told the newspaper Prensa Libre that Coatepeque is one of the places in the country with the most cases of this virus. The authorities determined that 90% of households has mosquito breeding sites.

The official said that so far this year have been tested to 554 people, of which 393 were positive for dengue fever and 14 for bleeding. In addition, from January to date 102 patients have been hospitalized, including 14 with DHF; and four dead, two children and two pregnant women, in the Regional Hospital of Coatepeque reported.

Meanwhile, the director of the local health center, Ruth Gonzalez said it takes the national laboratory to confirm whether the deaths were from hemorrhagic variable.

TeleMetro

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Guatemala: Dengue 2013 & 2014

Confirmed five deaths this year DHF
Five people have died so far this year in Guatemala as a result of hemorrhagic dengue, said Tuesday the spokesman of the Ministry of Health, Gustavo Barillas.

GUATEMALA CITY - "To date, we unfortunately for cases of hemorrhagic dengue five dead," the spokesman said without specifying the locations and ages of the deceased.

In mid-June, the health authorities of the municipality of Coatepeque, declared red alert suspicion of four deaths from the disease, but the ministry did not confirm if they are included among the five dead announced.

According to Barillas, called dengue fever in far 7,274 cases were recorded, 8,123 in the same period last year.
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On Saturday, the health ministry also confirmed the first eight cases of chikungunya in the country and declared an alert in seven departments. This disease is transmitted by the same mosquito of dengue.

BY AGENCY AFP / GUATEMALA
http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias...a-salud-ministerio_de_salud_0_1213078863.html

For more on Chikungunya in Guatemala see this thread; http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=224546