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Mexico: 5 deaths from Rickettsia reported

Ronan Kelly

Retired 2020
Google Spanis to English translation.
HERMOSILLO, SONORA .- The Ministry of Health reported two deaths last week by Rickettsia, Sonora, which reached five deaths so far this year from this disease which is transmitted to humans by the bite of ticks.

Two children were killed, a girl of 13 years, Cajeme, and a girl, 3, Michael German, a town in the municipality of Hermosillo, where three deaths have occurred this season.

Francisco Javier Navarro Galvan, director of Health Services to the Community in the Ministry of Health, recalled that a death occurred in Nogales, Miguel three German and one in Cajeme.

In total, Sonora has recorded 47 cases, including five new ones are presented in the last week.

Navarro Galvan said that the municipality of Cajeme takes 15 positive cases, 14 in Guaymas, Hermosillo and March 10 in Nogales, while the municipalities of Puerto Pe?asco, Huatabampo, Etchojoa, Empalme and San Javier recorded one.

Following the recent death of a girl of three years in German Miguel police station, about 70 miles west of Hermosillo, Health Services sent a brigade to the site to meet the dog population, the main source of ticks that transmit rickettsia.

"They are already working there, are already implementing Ivermertina, which is a treatment for dogs in homes where there are positive cases," said Navarro Galvan.

"The Rickettsia has nonspecific symptoms, begins as an intense fever or dengue-like influenza, the symptoms are high fever, headache, vomiting, bone pain, but then appear rashes on the palms of the hands and on the soles of their feet. "

(Rolando Chacon / Agency Reform)
http://www.elmanana.com.mx/notas.asp?id=197931
 
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