Nicaragua confirms 19 deaths of leptospirosis - 500+ infected

[Gert van der Hoek]

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There have been floods in this region


Uncontrollable Leptospirosis in the West: 11 dead

October 14, 2010

LEON

Without that count in official records of the health authorities in the West, a man of 70 years died in Spain Hospital in Chinandega, after showing symptoms of Leptospirosis, bringing the death toll in the region amounts to 11.

In Leon added nine dead, 73 positive cases and 400 suspects recorded this year by the Ministry of Health (MoH).

The victims belong to the municipalities of El Jicaral Malpaisillo, El Sauce, Achuapa and the provincial capital, where health authorities immediately proceeded to the mass vaccination of 28 000 people, with preventive therapy against the disease.

Dr. Edmundo Sanchez, Director of Surveillance MoH confirmed that the health alert remains in the department until it manages to control the disease that killed 7 adults and two children under 15 years .

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"We detected a slight rise in cases of fever, muscle aches and blindness in the territories of Leon, The Jicaral Malpaisillo, El Sauce and Achuapa, where we immediately apply the treatment to patients, are not going to wait for confirmation a diagnostic laboratory because the most important is to prevent more deaths, "he declared.

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Dr. Sanchez made a call for people to avoid exposure to contaminated water in rivers, streams and stagnant water where it is very likely to get the bacteria that causes the disease. "The health alert remains until we stop finding cases of fever in the home visits, health officials said.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Nicaragua confirms 15 deaths from leptospirosis

Re: Nicaragua confirms 15 deaths from leptospirosis

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Friday, October 15, 2010

Nicaragua Health Ministry confirmed 15 deaths from leptospirosis


At least 15 people have died in Nicaragua as a result of a violent outbreak of leptospirosis, which led the authorities to immunize more than 67,000 people in western Venezuela, officials of the Ministry of Health (MoH).

"We already have 15 people who unfortunately lost their lives because they came with more than five days of fever to the health units," the official told local radio La Primer?sima.

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Said that besides the 15 dead were counted around 470 suspected cases of the disease, which are under medical observation, especially in the west of the country where the government last month launched a massive immunization campaign.

In this connection, Sanchez said the MoH has provided 37,000 preventive treatments in the province of Chinandega and nearly 30,000 in neighboring Leon, where eight of its 10 municipalities have reported cases of leptospirosis.

In the northern Estel?, the most affected municipality San Juan de Limay, to which belonged some of the deceased. One of the most violent outbreaks of leptospirosis occurred in October 2007 in the west of the country and killed nine people and infected 3332.

Other similar epidemics occurred in 1995 and 2006, also in the province of Le?n, where 10 people died.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Nicaragua confirms 16 deaths from leptospirosis - Health Emergency

Re: Nicaragua confirms 16 deaths from leptospirosis - Health Emergency

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16/10/2010

Leptospirosis National Emergency

President Daniel Ortega declared yesterday evening health emergency throughout the country, according to Executive Decree read the first lady and coordinator of the Council of Communication and Citizenship Rosario Murillo Zambrana, due to the outbreak of leptospirosis has killed 16 people, according to official data provided by the Minister of Health.

Zambrana Murillo explained that the decree had not yet been signed by Ortega, aims to avoid further "unnecessary deaths and cut the epidemiological chain."

The provision states that all executive departments of Nicaragua will activate the emergency committees in order to support prevention and care plans that the Ministry of Health, MoH, designed, and plans for evacuation and care to all population affected by the disease.

Brigades search
Murillo explained that members of the "Citizen Power" and the organized social promotion "block by block, community by community" brigades based on the search for fever cases.

He also said the health units of all departments work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, during the epidemic, to prioritize the care of persons affected.

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Health Minister, Sonia Castro, said that until yesterday had 146 positive cases in which the figure had risen to 16 dead.

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Prevention campaigns
For its part, Sonia Castro González, Minister of Health, who traveled yesterday to Leon, confirmed on Saturday that preventive measures to contain the outbreak of leptospirosis in the west of the country, continue with the recruitment of fever cases through visits house to house, and the free distribution of preventive treatment against the disease.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

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Re: Nicaragua confirms 16 deaths from leptospirosis - Health Emergency

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Nicaragua: War on leptospirosis, plague rats

Yesterday got 120 tons of rat poison and a Cuban expert to deal with the problem.


Written by La Prensa / Managua

Monday, October 18, 2010

"I come prepared to control rodents, which are the key transmitters of leptospirosis. With these words appeared yesterday Freddy Villafa?a, Cuban specialist that brought the Government of Nicaragua to deal with the outbreak of leptospirosis has officially killed 16 people and forced President Daniel Ortega to declare a health emergency on Saturday.

Information published by the official portal on 19 Digital also announced the arrival of 120 tons of Biorat, "a powerful biotech product, which will cope with the health emergency in the country."

The Biorat is a rodenticide that is made from rice paddy and according to the information portal "only kills rats and mice and do not harm humans or other animals, also does not pollute the environment."

Until now we have detected outbreaks of the plague in eight departments, and kept coming yesterday suspected cases to hospitals in Leon and Chinandega.

Similarly, an army brigade was mobilized yesterday the areas affected by leptospirosis, using preventive treatment to prevent new outbreaks of the disease.

ESTEL?: Seven thousand doctors

In San Juan de Limay staff of the Ministry of Health (MoH) has implemented the first cycle of medication at 6 000 992 people, to avoid being affected with leptospirosis. Significantly, it is in the municipality where there have been positive cases of the disease.

The health center director of San Juan de Limay, Dr. L?zaro Castell?n, reported that so far have recorded 59 cases of people with suspected symptoms of leptospirosis.

Most have been treated at the health center of the town and only eight people have been moved to San Juan de Dios Hospital in Estel?.

Dr. Castellon said that ten cases have been confirmed leptospirosis and in the same municipality are accounted for two deaths from the disease itself, since it began to emerge in August.

In Limay most affected communities Mateare Gate and, while in other municipalities have been some sporadic cases.

In the remaining municipalities of Estel? affectations are unknown, since so far the departmental delegate Local System of Integral Attention in Health (SILAIS), Dr. Victor Treminio, has been "too busy" to provide information

LEON: MORE SUSPECTS

Yesterday at the hospital in Le?n had entered at least 50 patients with symptoms compatible with leptospirosis. Most patients are from the towns of Leon, Achuapa, The Jicaral, Malpaisillo and Santa Rosa del Penon.

In the department of Le?n nine people have died from leptospirosis. In the municipal seat three people have died, two in El Sauce, two in Malpaisillo, one in El Jicaral and another in La Paz Centro.

The town most affected Achuapa, with 33 confirmed cases of leptospirosis, then followed with 25 cases in El Sauce, El Jicaral, 15 cases; Malpaisillo, 13, Santa Rosa, four, Leon, four, Telica, three, La Paz Centro, Nagarote two, one case, for a total of 100 confirmed cases.

Yesterday medical teams moved through all regions of the municipality of Leon, applying preventive medicine. In The Jicaral last visited communities that had not been met.

CHINANDEGA: FEAR A NEW DISEASE

Yesterday about 20 patients with fever were admitted to Hospital Spain, Chinandega, suspected of leptospirosis and immediate treatment was applied.

The concern is that medical authorities suspected cases extend to Tonala, Puerto Moraz?n, the municipality of El Viejo, San Juan de Cinco Pinos, Santo Tom?s del Norte and San Francisco de Cuajiniquilapa.

Note that in two days, Friday and Saturday in Spain Hospital 83 samples were performed in patients with symptoms suggestive of leptospirosis. Four were positive.

Patients admitted with joint pain, vomiting and headache, are being addressed urgently in the Chinandega hospital.

Paula Calderon, from San Luis de Amaya, El Viejo, watching his son Bayardo Javier Montes, 22, who has taken a sample to see if he had leptospirosis, because his picture was compatible with the disease. His daughter, Alejandra del Carmen Garcia, was admitted to hospital with fever and other symptoms.

In the municipality of San Pedro de Potrero Grande medicated yesterday to thousands of people in a day of intense house to house was done in the urban area.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Nicaragua confirms 17 deaths of leptospirosis - Health Emergency

Re: Nicaragua confirms 17 deaths of leptospirosis - Health Emergency

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Tuesday, october 19, 2010

Leptospirosis outbreak was predictable

Once more the country suffers from a disease that could be avoided or at least expect sufficiently prepared to deal with it without having to give life, as has happened with the outbreak of epidemic Letptospirosis already recorded 17 fatalities, of which one still missing to be confirmed by the authorities of the Ministry of Health, MoH.

According to the doctor, Vicente Montiel Maltz, a specialist in internal medicine, this situation "was an expected thing," it is a disease with environmental conditions associated with the rainy season, a phenomenon that has affected our country in recent months.

"We were never going to get tired of saying the need for preventive health agencies should take the nation, because as usual, always the most humble are those who pay the piper," the specialist said that since 1995 has been studying the Leptospirosis phenomenon when Achuapa was an outbreak that left 30 people dead and affected more than 3000.

The health agencies can not be working according to sprout the transition to each new epidemic, we need to increase prevention," he added
He explained that we are facing a cyclical disease between 4 and 5 years and also is characterized by endemic-epidemic, which means that cases will occur continuously and at some point gets out of control resulting in a outbreak that if we are experiencing.

He emphasized the importance of not lower our guard as to control the epidemic even though there would be danger because only three months when dry, leptospira bacteria dies.

At this time drew attention to the people to follow the recommendations from the MoH for all those who presented febrile attend the nearest health unit.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Nicaragua confirms 17 deaths of leptospirosis - Health Emergency

Re: Nicaragua confirms 17 deaths of leptospirosis - Health Emergency

Nicaragua's Leptospirosis Cases Rise to 189

MANAGUA - Some 43 new leptospirosis cases have been registered in Nicaragua recently, increasing the number from 146 to 189 reported cases and 16 deaths, Health Minister Sonia Castro said Tuesday.

Castro said that the disease has spread to eight departments in the country, and most of the cases are in Leon, 93 km northwest from Managua.

Until now 130,000 doses of medicine have been given to avoid the spread of the disease, the health minister said.

Managua province's Health Director Maritza Cuan said Tuesday that leptospirosis has also been detected in two municipalities in the north of the province.

She said the government has expanded its sanitary cordon to stop the spread of the disease by vaccinating 6,000 people, who are staying in temporary shelters after losing their homes due to the seasonal rains.

Leptospirosis is a disease mainly transmitted through water polluted by the urine of animals carrying this bacterium. Its symptoms include fever and muscle pain.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Nicaragua confirms 17 deaths of leptospirosis - Health Emergency

Re: Nicaragua confirms 17 deaths of leptospirosis - Health Emergency

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Managua, October 21, 2010

13 more cases of leptospirosis reported

MoH confirms that there are 207 positive cases, the death toll remains at 16

The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday reported 13 new cases of leptospirosis in four departments, with already up to 207 the number of positive cases that have accumulated since last September 24 when the outbreak occurred in Achuapa municipality, Leon.

Five of these new cases occurred in Esteli, Matagalpa four, two in Carazo and two in Managua. The MoH claims that the death toll remains at 16.

Although Leo did not have recorded new cases since the weekend, the department continues to be the most beaten by the outbreak, since according to the latest epidemiological report there meets 60 percent of those affected, with 121 positive cases .

Leo also has the largest number of victims, with 10 fatalities, followed by Chinandega and Esteli, which reported two deaths each.

However, the MoH has indicated that surveillance is maintained across the country, search for any fever case , so that the number of people affected may increase.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Nicaragua confirms 16 deaths of leptospirosis - Health Emergency

Re: Nicaragua confirms 16 deaths of leptospirosis - Health Emergency

`Leptospirosis Outbreak in Nicaragua under Control`

Managua, Oct 27 (Prensa Latina) Cases of leptospirosis have been confirmed in every Nicaraguan department and one of its two Caribbean autonomous regions, but the outbreak is under control, specialists said.

Only the South Atlantic Autonomous Region has not reported any confirmed cases of the disease, as the country continues a massive vaccination campaign and the application of Biorat, a product developed by Cuban laboratories to kill rodents that transmit leptospirosis and other diseases.

According to a recent report from the Health Ministry (MINSA), 27 new cases were detected on Wednesday, totaling 451 since the beginning of the outbreak on September 24.

MINSA also stated that no further deaths were reported after the 16 revealed in the early days of the outbreak, before President Daniel Ortega decreed a health emergency.

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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Nicaragua confirms 16 deaths of leptospirosis - Health Emergency

Re: Nicaragua confirms 16 deaths of leptospirosis - Health Emergency

Spanish to English translation
Seven cases of leptospirosis

By: Wilder R. Perez

The Ministry of Health (MoH) reported on Saturday seven more cases of leptospirosis, which affects the disease and to 15 municipalities and autonomous regions, according to official reports.
The MoH reported that new cases were discovered last night in different areas of Nicaragua.
Until the last official report, had discovered 491 cases of leptospirosis in the entire country.

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Two new cases were detected in Chontales and one in Boaco. Both departments are located in the center of the country.
One more was reported in Managua, the Pacific and another in Nueva Segovia in the north, and one in Siuna, North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN).
With this report the only place in Nicaragua where leptospirosis has not reached the South Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS), although it is possible to appear in the coming days.

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However, the remaining five cases were filed this week, showing that the infection continues to spread throughout the country.
The number of deaths remains at 16, according to the MoH, as there were no new deaths in the last two days.

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[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Nicaragua confirms 16 deaths of leptospirosis - 500 infected

Re: Nicaragua confirms 16 deaths of leptospirosis - 500 infected

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Five hundred patients reported leptospirosis in Nicaragua

As part of the campaign to try to control the epidemic, the authorities have been given preventive doses of antibiotics to 2.7 million people around the country, the report said.

EL UNIVERSAL

Monday November 1, 2010

Managua. - leptospirosis epidemic that broke out over a month in Nicaragua today has left 16 dead and 504 patients in 16 of the 17 provinces of the country, the Ministry of Health (MoH).

According to the latest official epidemiological bulletin issued Monday, the night of Sunday the MoH has reported no new cases of the dangerous disease that is transmitted by contact with food contaminated by the urine of rats, reported DPA.

Nor have reported new deaths and the death toll remains at 16, said the document MoH.

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Nicaragua confirms 16 deaths of leptospirosis - 500 infected

Re: Nicaragua confirms 16 deaths of leptospirosis - 500 infected

"Dead number 17 for leptospirosis?
* Report says that the girl Isabel del Carmen Lopez, Telpaneca, when the test was negative practic?rsele * However, the institution joined the official list, which moved the figures, after several weeks of being controlled disease
Ampi? Jessie, Mercedes Sequeira and Maximum Rugama
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After several days of agony the child died four years Telpaneca native who was admitted to Hospital Infantil "La Mascota", apparently to present leptospirosis, but the test proved negative.

Despite this fact, the official count MoH located Isabel del Carmen L?pez Hern?ndez as the victim 17 from which the disease appeared in Leon. Meanwhile, the latest official report notes that MoH remain in 536 cases throughout the country.

The child was visited by the medical team at home and rushed to hospital Somoto, which was assessed by respiratory failure from pneumonia and severe.

On November joined "The Pet", where he remained for six days in the Intensive Care Unit, ICU, connected to a ventilator, antibiotics and without any improvement, until midnight on Sunday expired.

In the same center reported no new suspected or income because of severe leptospirosis, only keeping the lower Rio San Juan, which evolves according to the statement successfully.

With the death of the child, according to the official report of MoH, deaths now number 17, with a mortality rate of 3.1%.
As prophylactic doses, indicates that the official communication so far have provided first dose 63.474, 59.226 and 151.553 second dose third dose throughout.

As for Biorat, yesterday applied in 18.656 houses, added to that figure the treated reach 387.064 houses nationwide.
Juigalpa with six positive cases
According to the Ministry of Health of the municipality of Juigalpa, registered six positive cases of leptospirosis and three suspects, however, the director of the Center for Health says the disease is controlled.

Dr. Carla Rothschuh, new director of Juigalpa Health Center, said that despite the leading count of leptospirosis in the city, the disease is controlled, due to medication that have circulated in the town, arguing that it was a " success "for the collaboration of the institutions. Also explained that 90% of the population and is medicated.

"With the drug distribution of leptospirosis is being used to make preventive measures against dengue," Dr. Rothshchuh stressed, adding that the Biorat apply it in a spectrum of an apple, that is, about eight homes, because is a biological product.
Antibiotics to hundreds in Estel?
During the last weekend, the MoH conducted a major offensive to manage the preventive medicine of leptospirosis in different districts and regions of Esteli, so 231.842 citizens have received the first dose.

Treminio Dr. Victor Octavio Zavala, delegate of the Ministry of Health in Esteli, said that with this quantity accounts for nearly 75% of the population of San Juan de Limay, Pueblo Nuevo, Condega, La Trinidad, Esteli and San Nicolas, who has received the drug.

He stressed that most families already living in the municipality of San Juan de Limay received three doses of the drug. The doctor noted that so far the number of positive cases remains at 26 and that two people killed by evil.

Another evil which also affects the dengue, and therefore the Ministry of Health along with brigade volunteers and community leaders held a day of removal of garbage and pools, and directing the people to avoid standing water that favor breeding transmitting mosquitoes that bad
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[Shiloh]

Re: Nicaragua confirms 18 deaths of leptospirosis - 500+ infected

Re: Nicaragua confirms 18 deaths of leptospirosis - 500+ infected

Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=377305&CategoryId=23558

Nicaragua Death Toll from Leptospirosis Rises to 18

MANAGUA ? Health authorities in Nicaragua reported Saturday another death from leptospirosis, increasing to 18 the number of fatalities from the disease, with 551 people infected so far this year.

?The total number of deaths to date is 18 and the mortality rate is 3.2 percent,? the Health Ministry said in a communique, which also said that the latest victim was a man from the municipality of Tipitapa in Managua province...

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Nicaragua confirms 19 deaths of leptospirosis - 500+ infected

Saturday November 20, 2010

Deaths from leptospirosis in Nicaragua totaling 19

MANAGUA, Nicaragua

Health officials reported another death Saturday by leptospirosis, bringing to 19 the number of deaths since the disease was detected last September, according to an official report.

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98% of the population has received at least one of three doses of antibiotics recommended by health authorities to combat the disease, officials said.

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