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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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