Nicaragua: dengue cases

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Source: http://www.ticotimes.net/dailyarchive/2009_01/0108093.htm

Nicaragua under dengue alert

Nicaraguan health authorities warned yesterday of a likely outbreak of dengue fever serotype 3, citing the spread of the mosquito-borne virus in Costa Rica, Honduras and El Salvador.

The Health Ministry's chief of epidemiology, Juan Jos? Amador, said this type of dengue will attack Nicaragua with ?greater force? this year, harming in particular infants and people who have previously suffered from dengue.

?What's happening in Costa Rica, Honduras and El Salvador is going to affect us tremendously,? Amador said in a statement.

He explained that dengue tends to cross borders, as eggs are carried in by wind. When other countries in the region get hit, Nicaragua won't be an exception.

Dengue hemorrhagic fever, a more serious form of the disease, can be fatal.

Health authorities last year registered 2,295 suspected cases of dengue fever and another 205 of dengue hemorrhagic fever, a more serious form of the disease that can be fatal. Seventeen cases were confirmed; no deaths from dengue were recorded.

That was a big improvement from 2007, when 147 cases were confirmed and nine people died.

 

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Re: Nicaragua: dengue cases

Source: http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/57575

Google translation:

National
Minsa on alert across the country
Dengue on the rise and continues to attack influenza A
Amparo Aguilera
END - 19:51 - 20/09/2009

Dengue cases are on the rise in the capital. In the past three days, authorities logged Managua SILAIS-77 new confirmed cases of classic dengue and dengue hemorrhagic one more.

Until Thursday, the SILAIS reported 358 cases of dengue fever confirmed, ie just over double that recorded in the same period in 2008, when quantified 171 affected by the disease. In addition, quantified 16 confirmed cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever - one less than the period described - and one death.

However, new figures confirmed cases of dengue fever hit the 435 total, while those of dengue hemorrhagic fever reaching 17, as a year ago.

Dr. Peter Lewis, Director of Surveillance SILAIS, explained that the new cases were detected in the context of the Fourth Week of Fight Against Dengue, which will culminate on 23 October and intensified last weekend with the "Galache Plan.

He specified that the total cases, seven were hospitalized. "Of those, five are of dengue fever and two dengue hemorrhagic fever. One of these is serious and we are trying not we die, most importantly, prevent deaths and cases so it is important the cooperation of the population with preventive measures, "said the doctor.

He recalled that to date all the districts of Managua are vulnerable to dengue. "Remember there are neighborhoods scattered across the capital, with infestation rates of up to 40 percent, then we are working in all quarters: doing work abatizaci?n, fumigation and prevention," he said.

Influenza A is added
In relation to influenza A, Dr. Lewis added that quantify the moment 12 new confirmed cases of influenza in mention, totaling 789 infections in the capital. No new reports of fatalities.

Apart from that, "tallied 53 cases hospitalized suspects," he noted. The Ministry of Health, MINSA at central level, did not disclose the weekend the tendency of the virus nationwide.

According to the organization, until last Friday reported a cumulative total of 1.823 cases of influenza A and nine died. Of the total infected, 724 thousand were discharged. By then, 99 affected were kept under medical care and treatment.

 

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Re: Nicaragua: dengue cases

Source: http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2009/september/26/ca04.htm

Nicaragua Campaign Against Dengue

Managua - The Health Ministry (MINSA) of Nicaragua has begun a campaign to prevent 4 types of the dengue virus, according to reports from this Ministry.

The disease affected 458 people only in the capital, 14 people had hemorrhagic dengue, while one person died, according to MINSA information.

Up to the present an increase in 42 percent in dengue infected people has been reported compared with the same period last year. However has been a lower impact in the number of hemorrhagic dengue patients and dead people, declares the authorities.

More than 700 people support preventive actions in the capital, where the dengue virus has a bigger impact.

 

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Re: Nicaragua: dengue cases

Source: http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/ElFi...cId=218672&docTipo=1&orderby=docid&sortby=ASC

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Hazardous recorded outbreaks of dengue in Nicaragua
Health - Thursday, Oct. 1 (21:06 hrs.)

* A report of six dead and 490 thousand infected


El Financiero en l?nea

Managua, October 1 .- Nicaragua Health Authorities warned today on the persistence of dangerous outbreaks of dengue in several cities, before the report of six dead and 490 thousand infected.

An official bulletin said that outbreaks are most dangerous in the capital, where more than 500 confirmed cases in the Pacific coastal cities such as Masaya, Chinandega and Le?n, and in the northern Matagalpa, Boaco (center) and Rio San Juan (south).

He noted that those most affected are children between five and 14 years of age.

To date, been found in circulation in the country of the four dengue viruses. There are 490 thousand cases of dengue fever and 27
of bleeding.

The Ministry of Health alerted the public who has symptoms of dengue, respiratory disease or human influenza immediately go to a health and avoid self-medication.

A cleaning campaign at home in Managua continues to eliminate potential mosquito breeding sites of dengue transmitting Aedes Aegyptis.

The bulletin also said that cases of human influenza joined two thousand 41 and has claimed 11 lives. (Con informaci?n de Notimex / GCE)

 

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Increase to five the number of deaths from dengue hemorrhagic fever in Nicaragua

By Agencia EFE
Managua, Oct 1 (EFE) .- The death toll in Nicaragua because of hemorrhagic dengue this year rose to five, the press reported today the Secretary General of the Ministry of Health (MINSA) Enrique Beteta.

"So far we have registered through health surveillance are five patients died from hemorrhagic dengue, all children ages 9 and 14 years," said Beteta.

He explained that currently the so-called "dengue number 3" of the hemorrhagic variety circulating in the country is the most aggressive, because it presents the peculiarity that a child can spend two days with fever and suffering complications from the third.

Beteta said that only in Managua have been reported over 500 cases of hemorrhagic dengue and classic this year.

Beteta said Health officials are urging families to make every effort to take control of all containers that have in their homes and patios to collect water, where mosquito larvae of the disease is reproduced.

The first victim to cause dengue hemorrhagic fever in Nicaragua was a minor, a native of Managua, who perished in the second week of September.

Nicaragua is in "health emergency" since 28 August, for 60 days by the increase in deaths due to influenza A, which until last September 28 added new deaths and more than 2,000 infections in the country .

To prevent dengue from spreading in the country health authorities are implementing preventive actions to curb the breeding of the mosquito vector of the disease, the "aedes aegypti.

This prevention campaign against dengue is carried from house to house in the 153 municipalities in Nicaragua.

Dengue is an acute viral disease characterized by high fever, severe headache, muscle pain, gastrointestinal disorders and skin rashes, the official said.

During 2008 the Ministry of Health reported 2295 suspected cases of dengue fever and 205 of the hemorrhagic variant, the most virulent form of the disease, of which 17 were confirmed, with no dead, according to official figures.

During 2007 there were 3,300 cases of suspected dengue fever and 378 of the hemorrhagic variant, of which 147 were confirmed and nine deaths.

 

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Re: Nicaragua: dengue cases

Source: http://www.lajornadanet.com/diario/archivo/2009/octubre/5/4.html

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Updated 5 OCTOBER 2009
Increases dengue deaths
by Greta Arevalo


The hospitals are crowded with cases of dengue. (PHOTO Cesar Perez)

Influenza A (H1N1) situation worsens

Dengue continues to plague the Nicaraguan population, this weekend was reported two more deaths, which add up to eight the number deaths from this disease that keeps on edge health authorities.

Mar?a Dolores P?rez, head of Vector Disease Program of the Ministry of Health (MOH), told a news agency that two people had died from the virus, but did not specify the sex or age, noting that it was only juvenile old.

Managua, Masaya, Matagalpa, Boaco, Rio San Juan, Chinandega and Leon Departments still leading the first places most affected by the outbreak of dengue fever and hemorrhagic fever in the country, highlights a Minsa newsletter.

The Directorate of Health Surveillance, reported up to this weekend, a number from 1,480 in classic dengue and hemorrhagic dengue, 25, being Managua has affected much with 596.

This year more deaths are reported from the disease last year. By 2008 there were two deaths and in 2009 already have eight.

Influenza A is on the prowl

Although dengue punishes the population, continue to occur alongside cases of human influenza A H1N1.

Confirmed cases have been reported in over 60 municipalities throughout the country, being mainly to the age group between 20 and 34 years old.

Until this weekend 2.058 positive cases are recorded with the deadly strain killed and eleven. Of the total affected, 2018 and were discharged and 40 remain under medical care and treatment.

 

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Re: Nicaragua: dengue cases

Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/07/content_12189706.htm

Child death of dengue rises to 9 in Nicaragua
www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-07 09:50:15

MANAGUA, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- The child death toll for classic and hemorrhagic dengue in Nicaragua has risen to nine, the country's health authorities reported Tuesday.

The dengue in Nicaragua was on the rise, with a total of 1,532 registered cases, including 1,503 classic cases. The remaining cases were hemorrhagic dengue, said Enrique Beteta, secretary general of the Health Ministry.

"We must insist that people contribute (to the fight against dengue) by eliminating the mosquitoes and larvae, allowing the entrance of the health brigades to the houses," Beteta urged.

Beteta added that the A/H1N1 influenza pandemic had infected 2,068persons in Nicaragua, claiming 11 lives. Among the infected, 2,039 had recovered, while 18 were still undergoing medical treatment.

"Despite the A/H1N1 flu having a low aggressive behavior, different to the one five weeks ago, we are keeping alert because a combination of flu and dengue will represent a very grave situation," Beteta said.

 

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Source: http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/58797

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National
Another child died in Masaya and 12 in intensive care at La Mascota
Dengue more aggressive
* WHO indicates that the bleeding can attack without having suffered the disease before * Director of Children's Hospital in Managua, reports 77 inmates
Tania Syrian and Mercedes Vanegas
END - 22:02 - 06/10/2009

Dengue claimed another victim this time was a five-year-old native of San Juan district, in the town of Masaya, confirmed the general secretary of the Ministry of Health, Enrique Beteta. He said this was the seventh died of dengue, however, is handled unofficially that the figure now stands at nine babies died.

Dr. Silvio Navarro, Director of SILAIS of Masaya, said that this county has two confirmed deaths from dengue, the first, a girl of nine years of Monimb? district, and now the five-year small neighborhood of San Juan.

Beteta said "the boy was treated at a private hospital in Masaya for five days, the sixth was rushed to government hospital, but it was too late."

However, Navarro said the child was hospitalized for three days at the Hospital of Masaya and then transferred to a hospital in Baghdad, where he died. He added that currently there are ten people detained in hospital for dengue Masaya, some with hemorrhagic dengue, but are stable.
77 children in "The Pet"
Meanwhile, Dr. Gerardo Mejia, director of the Hospital Manuel de Jesus Rivera "La Mascota" stated that in this center there are 77 children in care, of which 12 are in intensive care, of which a girl is in serious condition.

"At the moment we have two patient services for Dengue: Infectious Diseases, where we have 29 patients, Medicine I, where there are 31 patients, and Medicine II, where we attend and H1N1 respiratory cases where we have five patients with dengue also," he noted Mejia.

The physician indicated that 90% of the patients came from Managua, but also have received from surrounding municipalities as Tipitapa Ticuantepe and La Concepcion, among others.
Dengue more aggressive
What doctors have noted in this outbreak of dengue is that patients are showing symptoms early. In previous years, and even this early, the children had fever three days, remained stable in their pressure and heart rate, and after passing the fever is that the problems began.

"Now we're seeing that even with the fever and with normal platelets children can put wrong. This was not the classic behavior of dengue, and that led us to expand the criteria for hospitalization. Many are small steady income and suddenly unbalanced, that's why we are monitoring from the hospital, "said Mejia.

The physician explained that the World Health Organization, WHO dengue classification changed since before it was known that dengue hemorrhagic gave who had already given him a classic, but now found that it is not, can give the bleeding in the first, said Dr. Mejia.

The head of the mascot said she also has been credited to ten children diagnosed with dengue, most human influenza pneumonia, further aggravating the health of children.
Greater care
Do?a Gregoria Ruiz never lost faith in God, even when his son Christopher Mejia, 11, was admitted to the Emergency Room Intensive Care "the mascot". He had been transferred from the Health Center of La Concepcion, with a diagnosis of severe dengue, popularly known as hemorrhagic fever.

Ruiz reported that the health center's physician diagnosed her son tonsillitis and prescribed antibiotics, which pulled down more platelets, worsening the health of the child.

The mother urged to be alert for early symptoms of dengue fever: fever, cold in the body, headache, vomiting, but especially to the appearance of cells in the skin pricks.

When a child with these symptoms should immediately take him to hospital where tests were performed to confirm the disease.

Dr. Gerardo Mejia also asked people to take action to prevent outbreak of dengue.

He said the community must be involved in cleaning up neighborhoods. In the particular case of the houses should avoid breeding of mosquitoes, especially clean every two days, the buckets and barrels which hold water, to prevent the mosquito Aedes aegypti incubate.

If at home there are people with respiratory problems, also should notify your physician as being included as a risk factor in the patient.

 

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Re: Nicaragua: dengue cases

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Dengue rages for children in Nicaragua

(AFP) - 8 hours ago

MANAGUA - Children are the main victims in Nicaragua of a dengue outbreak until Wednesday which left eight dead and almost 1,600 patients, most of the conventional type, which mobilizes the health officials to eliminate the mosquito that transmits the disease.

Emergency rooms in children's hospitals in the capital, the most affected by the outbreak, are full of children with dengue symptoms, including fever, pain in bones and eyes, and vomiting, according to health authorities.

Health Minister Guillermo Gonzalez, called the situation "delicate" and aggravated by a "deadly combination" with the influenza epidemic also affects the country.

Official figures give account of eight deaths from dengue hemorrhagic complications, most occurring in the last two weeks and in children aged 4 to 14 years, although media reports in nine recorded deaths.

Health officials had until Wednesday to a report of 1,589 cases: 1,562 of classic dengue and 27 of the hemorrhagic type. Managua is the most affected with 600 cases and five of the seven dead, one in Esteli (north) and two in Masaya (southwest).

"Within 24 hours, when symptoms occur, you have to take the kids to the doctor, because the dengue type three (one of the four viruses circulating in the country) easily dehydrated children," said general secretary Ministry of Health, Enrique Beteta.

The director of the La Mascota Children's Hospital, Gerardo Mejia, told reporters that inmates at the facility are 77 children from 6 months to 14 years of age, of which 12 are in intensive care.

Mejia explained that the behavior of dengue has not been the typical, which begins with fever but the patient's condition is stable in the first three days, from the standpoint of pressure and heart rate.

"We have many hospitalized patients who are not serious, but we have done to monitor them so it is not at home where no aggravation and complications could have you here. And the time it takes to bring them to the hospital could be vital to your life "Mejia said.

Children's Hospital Fernando Velez Paiz, arrived in the last week around 100 children with symptoms of the disease and 25 were hospitalized, of whom five had dengue hemorrhagic fever, according to its director Noel Larios.

BetaTeen considered important to the elimination of the mosquito 'Aedes aegypti' with the collaboration of the population. "We are alert because a combination of influenza and dengue is serious," he said.

In some neighborhoods the capital, mainly around Lake Managua, clouds of mosquitoes plaguing the population.

Brigades health officials, settlers and military civil defense performed cleanup and destruction of mosquito breeding sites, which usually lives inside the houses, and that breeds in clean water.

 

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Re: Nicaragua: dengue cases

Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=345646&CategoryId=23558

Dengue Cases on the Rise in Nicaragua

MANAGUA ? Cases of both hemorrhagic dengue and classic dengue have been on the rise in Nicaragua in recent weeks, the Health Ministry said.

A total of 1,706 cases of classic dengue and 46 of the hemorrhagic variety have been registered in the Central American nation, the ministry said in a report released on Tuesday.

The figures were up sharply from the 1,480 classic dengue cases and 25 hemorrhagic dengue cases detailed in the Health Ministry?s Oct. 4 report.

Eight people have died in Nicaragua from dengue so far this year.

Dengue is a serious viral disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito that is characterized by high fever, intense headaches, muscle pain, gastro-intestinal problems and rashes.

Hemorrhagic dengue, in addition to having symptoms associated with classic dengue, like fever, headaches and joint pain, can also produce internal bleeding.

Children between the ages of 5 and 14 have been the group most affected by the disease, with the outbreak being especially bad in Boaco, Leon, Managua, Masaya and Rio San Juan provinces, the Health Ministry said.

Public health officials are working to prevent the mosquitoes that spread the disease from breeding.

A door-to-door dengue prevention campaign is being conducted in Nicaragua?s 153 municipalities. EFE