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Girl dies after being bitten by rabid bat
Thursday, May 10, 2012 7:48
After eight days of being admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), a 12 year old girl from the community of Nuevo Progreso in Kimbiri-The Convention (Cusco), died VRAE be infected with human wildlife rabies product of a bat bite.
The victim arrived on April 22 around 10 pm from the area referred to in the jungle of Ayacucho Regional Hospital, where he was diagnosed with kidney failure and neurological problems. After eight days of being admitted to the Intensive Care Unit ceased to exist.
After his death his brain samples sent to the National Institute of Health which confirmed human rabies.
She developed the disease because she was bitten and did not report the case in time. For this reason, health officials could not have started the vaccination.
SYMPTOMS OF ANGER
When a person is bitten by a bat, you experience muscle aches, twitching, loss of leg mobility. This is a virus that has attached to the nervous system and is spread throughout the body and finally ends with encephalitis that leads to death.
PREVENTION BEFORE THAN SORRY
According to the head of the Regional Directorate of Health, Dr. David Gordillo Inostroza, said the girl not being patient was treated equally, and that the sector access provides health care to patients in Cusco. In turn, announced the implementation of preventive measures to control these cases.
"He took the issue on the DIRESA to start preventive promotional. We urge the public that when bitten by bats should report. In this community there is a high percentage of similar cases, but through ignorance or fear did not come to the clinic because a case may start a vaccination, if they develop the disease no one is saved, "he said.
He suggested putting up barriers to prevent bites, such as through nets. In case of suspicion, one must begin with an outline vaccine 8 days.
Inostroza Gordillo said that as part of the control to prevent transmission to humans, are tracking suspected cases in cattle. Chungui, Anco, Santa Rosa and are virtually Chilcas where cases are positive.
"They are tracking where it has infected saliva with others, because it was also found 26 people in that community with this type of bite," he said.
REFERENCE: There are two types of rabies, the urban and wild, the latter is found in endemic areas like the Valley of the Apurimac and Ene Rivers (VRAE) and the high forest. Is transmitted from bats to animals.
Spanish-English translation
Girl dies after being bitten by rabid bat
Thursday, May 10, 2012 7:48
After eight days of being admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), a 12 year old girl from the community of Nuevo Progreso in Kimbiri-The Convention (Cusco), died VRAE be infected with human wildlife rabies product of a bat bite.
The victim arrived on April 22 around 10 pm from the area referred to in the jungle of Ayacucho Regional Hospital, where he was diagnosed with kidney failure and neurological problems. After eight days of being admitted to the Intensive Care Unit ceased to exist.
After his death his brain samples sent to the National Institute of Health which confirmed human rabies.
She developed the disease because she was bitten and did not report the case in time. For this reason, health officials could not have started the vaccination.
SYMPTOMS OF ANGER
When a person is bitten by a bat, you experience muscle aches, twitching, loss of leg mobility. This is a virus that has attached to the nervous system and is spread throughout the body and finally ends with encephalitis that leads to death.
PREVENTION BEFORE THAN SORRY
According to the head of the Regional Directorate of Health, Dr. David Gordillo Inostroza, said the girl not being patient was treated equally, and that the sector access provides health care to patients in Cusco. In turn, announced the implementation of preventive measures to control these cases.
"He took the issue on the DIRESA to start preventive promotional. We urge the public that when bitten by bats should report. In this community there is a high percentage of similar cases, but through ignorance or fear did not come to the clinic because a case may start a vaccination, if they develop the disease no one is saved, "he said.
He suggested putting up barriers to prevent bites, such as through nets. In case of suspicion, one must begin with an outline vaccine 8 days.
Inostroza Gordillo said that as part of the control to prevent transmission to humans, are tracking suspected cases in cattle. Chungui, Anco, Santa Rosa and are virtually Chilcas where cases are positive.
"They are tracking where it has infected saliva with others, because it was also found 26 people in that community with this type of bite," he said.
REFERENCE: There are two types of rabies, the urban and wild, the latter is found in endemic areas like the Valley of the Apurimac and Ene Rivers (VRAE) and the high forest. Is transmitted from bats to animals.
