Argentina: Dengue cases

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Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://www.buenosairesherald.com/arg...Content=591567

Victory Front forces postponement of national epidemic alert vote
Gov?t seeks to avert dengue hysteria

Ruling party senators last night unexpectedly blocked the passing of a law to declare a national epidemic alert due to the dengue fever outbreak, alleging they did not want to ?dramatize? the situation, hours after the first locally-bred cases of the disease in Buenos Aires City and Greater Buenos Aires were reported by health authorities.
Two people in Tres de Febrero district and one in La Matanza tested positive for dengue and it was reported they had not recently traveled to the areas northern provinces most affected by the disease. Buenos Aires City Health Minister Jorge Lemus said there are two cases of locally-bred dengue confirmed.
Other four suspected locally-bred cases were being studied in Buenos Aires province, and one in the City.
A day after the national Health Ministry reported there are over 13,000 cases of dengue nationwide, the Senate yesterday failed to declare a national dengue epidemic alert.

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Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://datachaco.com/noticia.php?numero=19609

Google translation:

Source: http://datachaco.com/noticia.php?numero=19609

22/04/2009
Since the epidemic began
Dengue: 9718 cases confirmed in the Chaco

The Situation Room reported that the NEA add the date to 9718 patients with confirmed dengue accumulated since the start of the outbreak, with 154 notifications in the province on Wednesday.

Thus, it was recalled that the vast majority of cases since the beginning of the epidemic are determined, with the full restoration of health and without the possibility of disease transmission.

Confirmed cases are those with laboratory results and meet the clinical criteria-edpidemiol?gicos. Confirmations take approximately 10 to 30 days, but preventive measures should be taken from the very beginning of suspicion.

Therefore, from the Situation Room of the NEA was reminded that the most significant activity remains the descacharrado and environmental monitoring. The most important thing in people with dengue is the control after the period of fever, which occurs between the third and sixth days of illness. It is at this time when complications can occur and is there any sign that alarm (abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness and bleeding), the patient should consult a doctor urgently, it was stressed. Is that treat serious forms have a greater chance of a favorable outcome.

"Cases of dengue fever confirmed in the province of Chaco locality to 22-04-09"
Charat 3130
Saenz Pe?a 1698
Pampa del Infierno 1150
Three Isletas 852
Campo Largo 841
The Bre?as 556 **
The Frentones 347
Pinedo 278
Castelli 199 **
Concepcion del Bermejo 198 **
** Resistance 171
Avia Terai 164
Gancedo 64
Colonel Du Graty 40
Fontana ** 10
Barranqueras ** 8
Enrique Urien 8
Puerto Vilela ** 3
Puerto Tirol 1 **
TOTAL 9718

* Confirmed cases were considered those with positive results of a national reference laboratory and subsequently by epidemiologic link. ** In these cases the locations were confirmed with preliminary laboratory and according to a clinical epidemiological approach.

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Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?Arti...tegoryId=14093

Two Babies Born with Dengue in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES ? Two babies have been born with dengue in the northern province of Salta, the area most affected by the outbreak of the disease in Argentina, health officials said.

The babies contracted the disease from their mothers during pregnancy, Salta Health Minister Alfredo Quereo said, adding that one of the children had been released from the hospital and the other was ?doing favorably.?

?We are dealing with vertical transmission, that is, via the placenta,? the health official said.

Six other such cases have been reported in the world, Quereo said.

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.

The cases in Salta, which borders Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile, occurred in the towns of Oran and Embarcacion, with the first involving a woman who had traveled to Bolivia and the other a woman who contracted the disease in the last week of her pregnancy.

Salta, Chaco and Catamarca have been the Argentine provinces most affected by the dengue outbreak, which has resulted in more than 17,000 cases across the South American country, according to official figures.

Health officials have reported four deaths from dengue this year, while non-governmental organizations have tallied some 40,000 cases in the northern and central provinces near Bolivia and Paraguay. EFE

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Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://www.primicias.com.do/articulo,23276,html

Google translation:
More than 20 thousand cases of dengue in Argentina
Sunday April 26 2009

Buenos Aires, April 25 (PL) More than 20 thousand cases of dengue were reported in Argentina since the outbreak of the disease began to plague the country last February, according to official estimates released today.

Across the nation the numbers affected by this disease is 20

301 thousand, 501 of which are imported, the minister said

Health, Graciela Oca?a, who nevertheless said that dengue is

going on. "

Oca?a considered auspicious for all the indices are low and

mentioned as an example in the northern province of Chaco Thursday

reported 146 possible cases, when the Council last week

reached 350.

He warned however that this does not mean you should decrease the

intensity of the cleaning and fumigation to be carried

place to prevent the disease.

The largest number of provinces where patients are registered Chaco

nine thousand 718; Catamarca (7150), Salta (2, 026) and Jujuy (664).

Meanwhile, the city most affected is Pampa del Infierno, in the Chaco,

where there are 162 thousand cases in a population of 12 thousand

inhabitants, Oca?a said at a press conference yesterday.

According to a report by the Argentine Ministry of Health, as

Consequently died of dengue in the country only five people:

two in the Chaco, in equal amounts in Catamarca and Salta.

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Source: http://momento24.com/en/2009/04/28/b...ot-indigenous/

Buenos Aires Province: Four new dengue cases are not indigenous
Posted on 28 April 2009 at 11:15

They were detected in the municipalities of La Matanza, Avellaneda and Lomas de Zamora.
Until now there are 350 cases in study and 73 confirmed.

Another four cases of Dengue Fever were confirmed this Monday in the province of Buenos Aires, adding 73 the patients infected with the mosquito transmitted virus.

As informed by the Buenos Aires Direction of Epidemiology, the above mentioned are not indigenous cases, although there are four other people who got infected in the province.

Authorities declared that all four new confirmed patients were already healthy and fumigations were made 400 meters around their homes.

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Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://momento24.com/en/2009/04/29/f...-dengue-cases/

Capital Federal: Five indigenous dengue cases confirmed
Posted on 29 April 2009 at 10:50

Now the confirmed cases in the Federal Capital total seven, the tests resulted positive. They were carried out in the Maiztegui Institute of the town of Pergamino, which also confirmed the existence of 99 not indigenous cases in the Capital.

In this opportunity, they did not disclose the towns were the cases registered not to generate fear in the population.

The Health Department announced the new quantity of people affected by dengue in the country, which is of 22 000 people and 600 in study.

They clarified that, approximately, 10 000 cases belong to the province of the Chaco.

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Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://en.mercopress.com/2009/05/12/...l-buenos-aires

Tuesday, May 12th 2009 - 3:00 am UTC
More autochthonous dengue cases reported in the capital Buenos Aires

Argentine sanitary officials confirmed Monday five new cases of autochthonous dengue in the capital Buenos Aires and another in the province of Buenos Aires while the official figures from the federal ministry of Public Health indicate that there are 23.470 confirmed infections from the mosquito transmitted disease.

According to Ministry sources with the new reported cases the total number of confirmed autochthonous infections in metropolitan Buenos Aires is 12 and in the province of Buenos Aires, 14. Meanwhile to the north of Argentina, in the impoverished province of Chaco, the official figure is 10.200 cases so far this year. However Governor Jorge Capitanich said the ?epidemics has peaked and is sliding downwards?.

The Epidemiology Office from the province of Buenos Aires reported that the new case was located in the country of Quilmes to the south of the capital. Furthermore there are 86 ?imported? cases (from other provinces) while the number of ?doubtful? last Friday at 545.

Another Northern Province La Rioja reported that ?according to the epidemiologic survey, the dengue peak occurred April 15th, but has seen since begun descending?, said Gustavo Graselli, head of the provincial Health Ministry. Graselli confirmed 432 cases in La Rioja since the beginning of 2009, most of them in the provincial capital.

The dengue virus is transmitted by the Aedes Aegyptus mosquito and proliferates in rainy seasons, with larvae breeding in stagnant contaminated water. However the most common strain is not deadly expect for the so called vulnerable population, babies and elderly.

A relatively common tropical disease it is endemic in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and some northern parts of Argentina. This year the epidemic has been particularly severe in Bolivia (bordering with north Argentina) with over 80.000 cases reported. Paraguay this season has also suffered but is far less intense than a year ago.

Argentine epidemiologists have warned that the combination of poor sanitary conditions plus climate change will most probably turn dengue into an endemic epidemic, even in the capital Buenos Aires and its metropolitan area.

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Source: http://momento24.com/en/2009/05/11/d...over-the-city/

Dengue: 2 cases in Palermo, more than 300 all over the City
Posted on 11 May 2009 at 22:26

The director of the Institute of Zoonosis Luis Pasteur, Oscar Lencinas, said that the treatment of the patients ?is going to be treated isolating the patients in their own houses?. The infected are 302, 15 of them are indigenous. ?They are not hemorrhagic dengue, but they are cases of feverish dengue?.

Oscar Lencinas confirmed two new cases of dengue in Palermo, which join the 302 affected by the mosquito Aedes Aegypti. There are also 1008 suspicious cases.

In spite of the relevancy that took the H1N1, known as swine flu, in the City, the public sector continue with the campaign to prevent the infection of the mosquito.

In Palermo, a lot of people received flyers to prevent the illness.

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Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?Arti...tegoryId=14093

More than 300 Dengue Cases in Buenos Aires

BUENOS AIRES ? The number of cases of dengue fever in Buenos Aires rose to 302 out of a total 23,470 in all Argentina, officials said Tuesday.

While the spread of the illness is slowing as winter begins in the Southern Hemisphere, experts warn that the number of cases in the country could rise again when summer rolls around, and consequently recommend keeping preventive measures in place.

Most people with dengue in Buenos Aires got sick after traveling to the north, the part of Argentina hardest hit by the disease, which in the past few months had its worst outbreak in the nation?s history.

?The increase in cases was expected in the city as a consequence of tourist travel during the long (holiday) weekends,? the director of the Pasteur Institute of Buenos Aires, Oscar Lencinas, told the media.

Also expected is the confirmation of another 1,080 suspected cases that are being analyzed at the Pergamino medical center outside the Argentine capital.

The northern provinces of Salta, Chaco and Catamarca are the most affected by the disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which to date this year has caused at least five deaths.

Independent organizations warn that the number of dengue patients in the country is actually double the 23,470 officially reported.

Meanwhile, Sandra Mendoza resigned last Friday from her position as health minister for Chaco province after the controversy sparked by her performance during the epidemic.

Opposition leaders and activists had accused the now-ex-minister of being ?slow to react? to the spreading disease. EFE

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Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?Arti...tegoryId=14093

Argentina Dengue Death Toll Hits Six

BUENOS AIRES ? A Bolivian man has died from dengue in the northern province of Salta, raising the death toll from the disease this year in Argentina to six, the press reported over the weekend, citing health officials.

The man, whose identity has not been released, died last Thursday from ?dengue shock syndrome,? a complication associated with the disease?s hemorrhagic strain, in the city of Tartagal, Salta Health Ministry officials told the El Tribuno newspaper.

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.

The 33-year-old man, who had a high fever, went to a clinic in the city of Salvador Mazza, near the border with Bolivia, where his case was classified as possibly being dengue and blood was drawn for a test.

Argentina has experienced the worst dengue outbreak in its history in recent months, with nearly 25,000 people infected and six deaths, three of which occurred in Salta, which borders Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile.

Neighboring Bolivia is experiencing the worst dengue outbreak in the past 20 years, with more than two dozen deaths reported and tens of thousands of people infected.

Two years ago, 17 people died and some 27,000 others were infected in a dengue epidemic in Paraguay. EFE

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Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://momento24.com/en/2009/05/22/l...-dengue-fever/

La Plata: new case of dengue fever
Posted on 22 May 2009 at 12:16

The Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires province detected a new case in a six year old girl who had traveled with her family to Bolivia, and contracted the virus outside the province.

Health authorities reported that family members have no symptoms of the disease.
So far there were 91 indigenous and 14 imported cases, whereas in study are 617 people who showed symptoms of dengue.

The new case brings to 8 the number of infected in the provincial capital.

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Source: http://www.plagasonline.com.ar/prens...lle.php?id=936

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22.05.2009 | SOURCE: Infobae.com

There are so many suffering from dengue infected as in the Chaco of influenza A in the World

The government report that reflects the release of dengue cases in the Chaco in the last seven days showed that 94 new patients were found infected. Thus, the patients so far in the epidemic reached 10,673, while the other analyzes 1982.

Meanwhile, yesterday presented at local health facilities nine other people with symptoms of having contracted the virus, the site reported Chacas.com.ar.

"On Thursday 14th, there were 29 new cases, 15 on Friday, 16 cases, 16 on Saturday, five cases; last Sunday, two cases on Monday, 18 Tuesday, 13 Wednesday and today, nine reports," said The announcement, released yesterday.

On the other hand, reiterated that the document is considered "confirmed cases" to those with positive results of laboratory and who meet the clinical-epidemiological criteria.

He also reported that the Central Laboratory of the Resistance and the town of President Saenz Pena studies every two days for new patients infected.

Influenza A virus, according to WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) raised the number of cases of influenza A infection throughout the world to 11,034, indicating that there are 85 dead.

He added that most of the 791 new cases were reported to be in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Source: Infobae.com

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Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...t_11455628.htm

Argentina's dengue cases rise to 25,833
www.chinaview.cn 2009-05-30 09:22:35

BUENOS AIRES, May 29 (Xinhua) -- The number of dengue cases in Argentina reached 25,833, Argentine Health Ministry said on Friday.

Despite 3,107 more people have been infected with the disease since the last report was released on April 30, Argentine authorities said the dengue epidemic is being controlled.

From February to April, the country has seen a large number of mosquitoes of all kinds, including the Aedes aegypti, which is a carrier of dengue.

The northern province of Chaco, where 10,796 cases have been registered, is the worst hit area in the country. While in Catamarca, another northern province, 8,703 cases have been registered.

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Source: http://momento24.com/en/2009/07/13/d...in-mid-winter/

Dengue is back in mid-winter
Posted on 13 July 2009 at 10:03

In the province of Salta two cases were accounted 15 days ago, declared Mario Luis Arias, manager of St. Vincent de Paul Hospital in the town of Oran, both patients are safe.

In the province of Catamarca four young patients are being studied after showing symptoms 10 days ago in the town of Recreo.

Health authorities said that ?given the temperatures of weeks ago, more usual in spring than winter season, there may have been a resurgence or even a mutation of the mosquito, which would have adapted to lower temperatures.
In the province of Catamarca, until May, there had been 9800 cases reported.

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Source: http://www.lacapital.com.ar/contenid...icia_0002.html
(Santa Fe Province)

Google translation:
THE OTHER EPIDEMIC
They fear a resurgence of dengue more powerful when the heat again


The task of descacharrado in homes is a priority in Rosario and the rest of the province. (Photo: C. Mutti Lovera)

In the middle of a pandemic of influenza A, the provincial Ministry of Health activated the alarm against the possibility that an outbreak of dengue strongest barely cold decline. Therefore, starting next August descacharrado tasks and eliminating mosquito breeding grounds, along with a new social awareness campaign. The fear is that the excess of the reported cases last summer, which left more than 1,300 infected throughout Santa Fe.

The diagnosis of the health teams of the Gray House agrees with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which called on Latin American countries to increase resources for prevention and combat dengue, and warnings infectologists and epidemiologists, who predict or more of the cases registered in the province.

"There is the possibility of severe dengue, stronger than feverish. Not to be out in front of a new epidemic. If we eliminate the reservoirs of the country and enter another epidemic, it is highly probable. There are three serotypes (infectious microorganisms) from the disease circulating in South America, "said Capital in the provincial deputy minister of Health, D?bora Ferrandini.

Red light. The biggest concern is that the resurgence of evil transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito leading to cases of dengue shock: the onset is sudden, with fever and headache, but between the fourth and sixth days there other indicators.

Then they can occur suddenly in a low temperature, severe abdominal pain and bleeding gums, nose, skin or other sites (for increased vascular permeability and attack specific organs). And in some cases, respiratory problems and inflammation of the myocardium.

The dengue shock occurs mainly in children under 10 years, but can affect any age, and the convalescence is prolonged. Mortality ranges from 6 to 30 percent.

Meanwhile, expect the larvae in pots, pools or other pools the arrival of the first heat and rain to complete their development into mosquitoes in the coming months that could transmit a virus more powerful, especially for people who contracted disease.

Ferrandini explained that in August they will face "a work that will engage the public in each region, consisting of a descacharrado in the hands of neighbors and the state." A task that will "modalities defined by the district" and create together a townships, municipalities and civic organizations.

As there is no vaccine against the disease, the key is to finish with the vector and its breeding potential, which is why the authorities insisted that Santa Fe should take this as a daily habit.

"We have to meet the objective of the visit all homes and public spaces to eliminate the sharing of water reservoirs and eggs of the mosquito," summarized the staff member. The other axis of the plan will focus on training of health personnel, according Ferrandini stressed: "We need to deepen what is learned about the identification of cases and epidemiological surveillance, especially against a possible severe dengue according to the probable existence of three serotypes.

As stock of what has been lived, Health found that in urban areas, especially the city of Rosario and Santa Fe, the descacharrado had a significant impact at the end of the summer.

Challenge. The deputy found that the latest outbreak of dengue as the current pandemic of influenza A "solidify the surveillance system in the province," while stressing "the degree of alertness and commitment of health personnel from such evils" .

As with influenza, Ferrandini reminded people the importance of prioritizing immediate notice to the doctor for any symptom of dengue
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