Published Date: 17/12/2012 23:41:44
Subject: PRO / PORT> Disease unspecified - Brazil (MT), outbreak
Archive Number: 20121217.1457101
NOT SPECIFIED DISEASE - BRAZIL (Mato Grosso) OUTBREAK
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Date: Monday / Lunes, December 17/2012 Deciembre
Source: Agency News [12/13/2012] [Edited]
Residents suffering from Post Forest virus outbreak unknown
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More than 30 residents of the district Araguaia Star Tour popularly known as Forest face an unknown virus.
According to the pastor and Councilwoman Irene Rocha over 30 people including adults and children seek the committee complaining of body aches, headache and malaise.
In the district there is no medical care, residents improvised in a room of 3 by 5 of the Tour of fuel pellets which are an ambulatory makeshift second is where the calls made by a practicing nurse who lives more than 15 years in the district.
"My son is 25 years [old] with the virus, we have a serious problem here, we do not have to treat these people here have no hospital, no doctor here and no medicines," said a distraught resident Marilene Alves to the News Agency.
According Sueli Santana, licensed practical nurse who is helping in the care situation is precarious. "We have no medical support, we are giving a solidarity support, children, youth, seniors and everyone is infected by a virus, in some cases we have to send out even today had a child who was referred to Boa Vista High of 40 ° C fever which makes us very worried, "said Santana Sueli practice nurse to the News Agency.
The medicated attendances were all used in donation, the virus has been called by the residents of the district "Virose FUNAI."
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Communicated by: ProMED-PORT
[Information about the clinical features (no respiratory symptoms? There gastrointestinal manifestations? What is the duration of symptoms?) And epidemiological (when the first case was identified? What temporal distribution of cases and what is the epidemiological link between the cases?) are scarce.
As always: no characterization person-place-time, difficult to raise the most probable hypotheses. Risking: dengue would be a hypothesis. But considering only fever, headache, myalgia, prostration, without other information, which would not be possible (probable?) Enterovirus, influenza, toxoplasmosis, malaria, leptospirosis ...?
The precariousness of the health service described, hardly there (will be?) The conditions for appropriate clinical and laboratory investigation.
Let's watching.
- Mod RNA
Subject: PRO / PORT> Disease unspecified - Brazil (MT), outbreak
Archive Number: 20121217.1457101
NOT SPECIFIED DISEASE - BRAZIL (Mato Grosso) OUTBREAK
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A message / Una mensaje / a ProMED-PORT
http://www.promedmail.org
ProMED-mail is a program of the / es un program de la
International Society for Infectious Diseases
http://www.isid.org
Date: Monday / Lunes, December 17/2012 Deciembre
Source: Agency News [12/13/2012] [Edited]
Residents suffering from Post Forest virus outbreak unknown
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More than 30 residents of the district Araguaia Star Tour popularly known as Forest face an unknown virus.
According to the pastor and Councilwoman Irene Rocha over 30 people including adults and children seek the committee complaining of body aches, headache and malaise.
In the district there is no medical care, residents improvised in a room of 3 by 5 of the Tour of fuel pellets which are an ambulatory makeshift second is where the calls made by a practicing nurse who lives more than 15 years in the district.
"My son is 25 years [old] with the virus, we have a serious problem here, we do not have to treat these people here have no hospital, no doctor here and no medicines," said a distraught resident Marilene Alves to the News Agency.
According Sueli Santana, licensed practical nurse who is helping in the care situation is precarious. "We have no medical support, we are giving a solidarity support, children, youth, seniors and everyone is infected by a virus, in some cases we have to send out even today had a child who was referred to Boa Vista High of 40 ° C fever which makes us very worried, "said Santana Sueli practice nurse to the News Agency.
The medicated attendances were all used in donation, the virus has been called by the residents of the district "Virose FUNAI."
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Communicated by: ProMED-PORT
[Information about the clinical features (no respiratory symptoms? There gastrointestinal manifestations? What is the duration of symptoms?) And epidemiological (when the first case was identified? What temporal distribution of cases and what is the epidemiological link between the cases?) are scarce.
As always: no characterization person-place-time, difficult to raise the most probable hypotheses. Risking: dengue would be a hypothesis. But considering only fever, headache, myalgia, prostration, without other information, which would not be possible (probable?) Enterovirus, influenza, toxoplasmosis, malaria, leptospirosis ...?
The precariousness of the health service described, hardly there (will be?) The conditions for appropriate clinical and laboratory investigation.
Let's watching.
- Mod RNA