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Peru: 6 chickenpox deaths reported in northwest regions
by News Desk
November 26, 2017
Six children under the age of 10 have died from chickenpox in the northwestern regions of Piura and La Libertad in Peru through October, according to a chimbotenlinea.com report (computer translated).
This number is higher than the five deaths recorded during the entire 2016.
According to the doctor Pedro D?az Camacho, of the Bethlehem Hospital of Trujillo, of all the cases of chickenpox, approximately 40% suffers complications with bacterial and hemorrhagic infection, which makes difficult the handling of the patient and exposes it dangerously to death.
?Only in the La Libertad region have been reported 115 cases, of which 45 were complicated to trigger three deaths,? said the doctor.
Experts are calling for an emergency declaration in La Libertad...
Peru: 6 chickenpox deaths reported in northwest regions
by News Desk
November 26, 2017
Six children under the age of 10 have died from chickenpox in the northwestern regions of Piura and La Libertad in Peru through October, according to a chimbotenlinea.com report (computer translated).
This number is higher than the five deaths recorded during the entire 2016.
According to the doctor Pedro D?az Camacho, of the Bethlehem Hospital of Trujillo, of all the cases of chickenpox, approximately 40% suffers complications with bacterial and hemorrhagic infection, which makes difficult the handling of the patient and exposes it dangerously to death.
?Only in the La Libertad region have been reported 115 cases, of which 45 were complicated to trigger three deaths,? said the doctor.
Experts are calling for an emergency declaration in La Libertad...