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    Date Published: 11/11/2011 00:03:46
    Subject: PRO / ESP> Yellow Fever, death, puerperal - Peru (VRAE)
    Archive Number: 20111111.235113

    YELLOW FEVER, DEATH, puerperal - PERU (VRAE)
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    Date: November 11, 2011
    Source: Info Region, Peru

    [Edited by J. Torres]

    Officials from the Regional Health Authority (DIRESA) of Ayacucho
    today confirmed the first victim of yellow fever in the community
    Union Mantaro in Llochegua district in the valley of the rivers
    Apurimac and Ene (VRAE).

    After a histological study of epidemiology specialists
    confirmed the first case of yellow fever in the VRAE, after
    the postpartum woman 15 years of age dies on the third day after giving
    birth and was considered, initially, as a victim of death
    maternal.

    Director of Epidemiology DIRESA, Tania Cardenas, said
    the patient presented with fever, jaundice and bleeding
    gums, which was referenced in the Health Post Canayre to
    San Francisco hospital and then to the regional hospital.

    ? Despite efforts on the third day he died and was regarded as a
    case of maternal death, after death, experts
    performed a histopathological examination of the liver, so that
    yellow fever found? said Cardenas.

    For his part, David Gordillo Inostroza, DIRESA holder?
    Ayacucho, summoned the people of the jungle to go to receive
    free yellow fever vaccine. Similarly urged
    health personnel to be alert to any suspicious case of fever
    yellow.

    Gordillo said his industry is performing preventive actions?
    promotional level in the region, mainly in the VRAE.

    ? Already started scanning with yellow fever vaccine in Union Mantaro
    Canayre and Llochegua. It has also intensified surveillance
    dead animals and the presence of mosquitoes to detect and study
    vector and thus make timely control?.

    According to reports from the Office of Epidemiology DIRESA the last
    outbreak of yellow fever in the VRAE was recorded in 2006, the year in which
    reported seven cases, with a fatality rate of 100%.


    Reported by: Jaime R. Torres

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    Re: Peru: One confirmed yellow fever fatality


    Spanish to English translation

    November 14, 2011

    Alert outbreak of yellow fever in Ayacucho

    The Regional Government of Ayacucho alerted all health facilities in the area due to the possible Yellow Fever outbreak in the town of Union Mantaro in the Valley of the Apurimac and Ene Rivers (VRAE).
    With support from the Regional Health Authority (DIRESA), will encourage people from 2 to 59 years to go to health centers to free vaccines.
    Also, be warned that feeling headache, sudden fever or muscle pain and bleeding gums, mouth and nose, it's best to go quickly to the nearest health center.

    The data
    According to reports from the Bureau of Epidemiology, the last outbreak of yellow fever was in 2006, the year when there were 7 cases with a fatality rate of 100%. (With information from the Ministry of Health)

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