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**Shiloh** · March 26, 2009, 06:04 PM

Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/

March 26th, 2009
Dengue fever hits northern Argentina
Posted: 06:54 PM ET

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) ? Health officials in Argentina are battling an outbreak of dengue fever that has sickened at least 2,200 people and caused widespread fear in some of the affected areas, news reports said Thursday.

About 1,200 of the cases are in the northern state of Chaco, Health Minister Graciela Ocana said on the government-run Telam news agency.

Ocana and Chaco Gov. Jorge Capitanich on Thursday toured the city of Charata, which has been hardest hit in the province, Telam said.

Charata residents are panicked and some have gone elsewhere, El Clarin newspaper said. Distrust of government officials is common.

?We are in Cordoba because when we realized that they weren?t telling us the truth, we began to become crazy,? Luciana Buracco, the mother of three children under 13, told El Clarin. The city of Cordoba is more than 300 miles south of Chaco province. ?We wouldn?t let the kids out and we put repellent on them every three hours. We suffered when we saw a mosquito and we were desperate until we killed it.?

Residents staged a demonstration Wednesday, protesting that authorities were hiding information. They maintain there are more than 3,000 cases in the city of 60,000, El Clarin said.

?Doctors at the hospital have been told not to talk so no one knows what is really happening,? one of the protesters, Miguel Paglia, told the newspaper.

Officials said they were starting an aggressive fumigation campaign to kill mosquitoes that transmit the disease. They also urged the public to remain calm.

?I understand the community, when it presses and pushes for answers, but we have to organize and have the necessary clarity to attack the problem,? Chaco government minister Domingo Peppo was quoted as saying by Telam. ?Today, the situation is relatively controlled and in one week we will be finishing the sweep of the city.?

Peppo denied reports that there is an epidemic, saying it is an outbreak instead.

But Hugo Fernandez, the national director for the prevention of illness and risks, was quoted in El Clarin as saying it can be called ?an outbreak or an epidemic, it?s the same: an increase of cases beyond the norm.?

The city of Salta in northwestern Argentina has recorded 986 cases, El Clarin said, but residents there say officials have been forthright with them.

Fernandez said this outbreak is as significant as one that occurred in 2004. He said this year?s epidemic was a spillover from a record epidemic in nearby Bolivia, which had 50,000 cases this season.

Bolivian officials declared a health emergency in January.

Dengue fever occurs in tropical and sub-tropical parts of the world, transmitted by the bite of a mosquito infected with one of four dengue viruses, the World Health Organization says. The disease cannot be transmitted directly from one person to another.

Cases usually spike from November through January, which is the hot and rainy season for most of South America.

Symptoms, which appear three to 14 days after a bite, can include mild to high fever, severe headache, pain behind the eyes, muscle and joint pain and a rash, the WHO says.

Dengue fever is different from dengue hemorrhagic fever, which is a potentially fatal complication that affects mainly children, the WHO says. Symptoms include fever, abdominal pain, vomiting and bleeding.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates there are up to 100 million cases of dengue fever worldwide each year.

?It actually is quite common,? Dr. Ali Khan of the CDC told CNN last year. ?And unfortunately, over the last 30 years or so we?ve seen an increase in the number of countries infected with dengue fever.?

He attributes the increase in part to population growth. Mosquitos that carry dengue typically breed in areas near humans.

?This is a disease that occurs where there?s lots of population,? Khan said.

The WHO says mosquitos carrying dengue viruses breed in exposed water, including places as shallow as jars, discarded bottles and plant saucers.

Last year, 55,000 people in southeastern Brazil contracted the disease. The outbreak was confirmed as causing the deaths of at least 67 people ? almost half of them children under the age of 13.

**Shiloh** · March 30, 2009, 07:11 AM

Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://en.mercopress.com/2009/03/30/...f-buenos-aires

Monday, March 30th 2009 - 7:30 am UTC
Dengue reported and confirmed in outskirts of Buenos Aires

The mosquito transmitted dengue viral epidemic has reached the outskirts of Buenos Aires according to the head of the Epidemiology Department from the province of Buenos Aires.

Mario Marsana Wilson confirmed to the local press that two new suspected cases had been detected in Quilmes to the south of Buenos Aires, which means a total of 32 cases so far and 16 confirmed in Argentina?s most populated province.

Apparently a teenager and a man of 28 arrived in Quilmes from the northern province of Chaco where authorities have admitted ?they reacted slowly? to the outbreak following revelations of the existence of at least 3.000 confirmed cases of dengue.

?It?s another non autochthonous case of the disease? said Marsana Wilson, who said the patients developed the symptoms after they arrival in Buenos Aires.

Marsana Wilson added there was no evidence of the presence of the virus in Buenos Aires, insisting that none of the confirmed cases had contracted dengue in the province or the capital of Argentina. He added that all confirmed and reported cases are ?under control? and that most patients are recovering at their homes.

The mayor of Quilmes said that municipal staff was on a fumigation campaign and called on all neighbours to collaborate.

Chaco in the north of Argentina together with the provinces of Salta and Catamarca, has been exposed to the mosquito which proliferates in the tropical rainy season as the larvae breed in stagnant water.

The north of Argentina borders with Bolivia and Paraguay where this summer the dengue epidemics has been particularly strong. In Bolivia at least 60.000 cases have been confirmed and in Paraguay, 4.500. There have also been a few cases of the more fulminating variant of the disease, haemorrhagic dengue which causes death.

**Shiloh** · March 31, 2009, 06:57 AM

Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

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

Dengue Outbreak Reaches Argentina?s Capital

BUENOS AIRES ? An outbreak of dengue fever affecting Argentina?s northern provinces has reached Greater Buenos Aires, where 60 victims of the disease have been detected, health authorities said on Monday.

In Buenos Aires, where there are 45 cases of dengue, an ?epidemic watch? has been launched that includes spraying insecticide to combat the disease-carrying Aedes Aegypti mosquito, Health Secretary Jorge Lemus said.

Another 15 cases have been detected on the outskirts of the Argentine capital, where some 8 million people live, and where plans for spraying mosquitoes and other prevention measures are underway, the health minister for Buenos Aires province, Ricardo Zin, said.

National authorities said that there are more than 3,000 people infected with dengue, most of them in the provinces of Salta and Jujuy near Bolivia, and in Chaco province on the Paraguayan border.

Nonetheless, non-governmental organizations and town mayors in the country?s interior said that the number is really much greater.

In Buenos Aires, the cases of dengue ?are not endemic but are imported? from other regions of the country, Lemus said.

He said that in 2007 in the Argentine capital the 351 patients treated for dengue caught the disease in other parts of the country.

The spraying of insecticide and prevention campaigns are also underway in Buenos Aires province, where the number of dengue victims went from the two reported over the weekend to 15, Zin said, adding that in all these cases the disease was caught outside this district.

The provincial official said that prevention campaigns in that district began last year and attributed the proliferation of the disease to climate change that keeps temperatures high despite the onset of fall in the Southern Hemisphere.

The dengue-carrying mosquito ?does not reproduce at temperatures below 10 C (50 F),? whereas the average temperature in recent weeks has been 28 C (83 F), he said.

Federal Health Minister Graciela Oca?a will again go this week to Chaco, a primary focus of the disease, and is also scheduled to address Congress about the actions underway to ward off an epidemic.

The spread of dengue ?is related? to the epidemic afflicting Bolivia, where some 50,000 cases have been reported, the national director for the prevention of disease, Hugo Fernandez, told Efe last week. EFE

**Shiloh** · April 1, 2009, 07:24 AM

Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...mxcn_jZeuZpC3A

Google translation:
Three dengue deaths in Argentina

Deaths from dengue in Argentina amounted to three instead of four, as corrected by the Government on Tuesday in a report on the epidemic progresses in the South American country, with 4144 confirmed cases.

"By mistake it was a dead patient is in intensive care," he said in a press conference the Health Minister Graciela Ocana.

The last fatal victim was a woman, while the first two deaths from dengue had occurred in early March in the province of Salta (northern) border with Bolivia, according to government report.

Oca?a made the revelation in the village of Charat, a farming town of 30,000 inhabitants in the province of Chaco (Northeast), the largest outbreak of the disease virus that is transmitted by the bite of the mosquito 'Aedes aegypti'.

The disease is spread most strongly in areas of the north, northeast and northwest of the country, and even a warning governing Buenos Aires and its suburbs.

Oca?a announced also the imminent formation of a "table of regional analysis," which called for cooperation to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). "There are 4144 cases of dengue in the country, 434 of which are imported," he told the television Oca?a.

Most imported cases concern persons who contracted the disease in neighboring countries like Bolivia or Paraguay. In Bolivia there is an epidemic this year that claimed the lives of 22 people, with 40,000 suspected cases of evil, while in Paraguay there are 574 cases of dengue confirmed.

The infectious diseases specialist at the Universidad Nacional del Noroeste, Jorge Gorodner criticized the lack of foresight by the authorities to prevent the outbreak.

"We started to seriously say that Argentina would be compromised by dengue fever three years ago, and the only thing taken were isolated," said the professional, who heads the Regional Institute of Medicine of that University.

The deputies John Sylvestre B?gnis, chairman of the committee of Social and Health of the House, admitted that they had "a distraction for the prevention of dengue," but denied that it is negligence of the health authorities.

Health authorities in Buenos Aires and its suburbs are populated on alert against the advance of dengue, and began the task of spraying in areas at risk, in addition to strengthening prevention campaigns.

"There are 93 suspected cases of dengue, of which 43 are resident in Buenos Aires who traveled to the interior of the country or abroad, where he contracted the disease," said Minister of Health of Buenos Aires, Jorge Lemus.

PAHO reported last week in a release that occurred in Latin America so far this year 113,758 cases of dengue, including 2052 of the hemorrhagic type, the variant of the deadly disease.

Mirta Roses, PAHO director, said the massive outbreak in Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil "should be put on alert across the region."

Dengue affected over 850,000 people in 2008, of which 38,000 were dengue hemorrhagic fever and 584 died, according to the organization

**Shiloh** · April 2, 2009, 09:10 AM

Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/04...s-01889710.htm

Google translation from Spanish:
PATIENTS ALREADY HAVE "indigenous"
Dengue is moving: it Tucum?n and Corrientes
This is because the mosquito bites that people arrive sick and spreading the epidemic.
By: Valeria Rom?n

The epidemic of dengue spreads sharply. Yesterday, and were confirmed infected with the virus in the same area in which they reside, ie indigenous cases in the provinces of Tucum?n and Corrientes. There are suspected cases of dengue in Santiago del Estero and La Rioja. It is found that the presence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes with dengue virus in at least six provinces. Confirmed cases were added yesterday to the count, which is already infected more than 11,000, according to the Ministry of Health of the Nation and the provincial authorities. However, local doctors report that, in Chaco, the figures would be higher than those permitted to speak of more than 10,000 infected.

The beginning of the epidemic was in Bolivia, which already account for more than 50,000 infected. Dispersed into Paraguay and Argentina, where he first began to develop cases "imported" are people who have been in affected areas in Bolivia and contracted the virus. In the first weeks of February, there were indigenous cases in Salta and Jujuy provinces bordering Bolivia. "After what happened was unique to this epidemic: the indigenous cases were in provinces that previously had not registered as Catamarca, Chaco and Tucum?n," Clarin said Juan Carlos Bossio, director of epidemiology at the Ministry of Health of the Nation. Why spread so fast? "Dengue cases are expected because there had been movement of the virus in summers past. But it is likely that in some places, like the province of Chaco, the diagnoses were made late and that contributed to the proliferation of mosquitoes with the virus , "admitted the official.

Tom?s Orduna, infectologists Mu?iz Hospital, said: "When we began in Bolivia, was expected to affect the Argentina, but the health system fails to react in time. Just imported cases are detected, there is spraying in the area around the homes of those affected and further promote the removal of containers with water to prevent mosquito breeding. The campaigns were intense and local. " The specialist, part of the steering committee of the Latin American Society of Travel Medicine, added: "I think we must learn the lesson: Dengue is now in Argentina." The Minister of Health of Buenos Aires, Pablo Yedlin also recognized that the population will have to adapt to living with the infection: "Dengue fever is here to stay. Next year will reappear. We had been working since two years ago, but it is difficult to get people to change habits if not perceived as a risk to dengue to their health. We need each neighbor check your home from rain water to detect and prevent the presence of mosquitoes. " Yesterday Yedlin Clarin reported that it recorded 192 dengue cases in the province, of which 5 are native. The focus is on Aguilares Tucum?n, but came to the provincial capital.

In the province of Corrientes, the Director of Human Resources Programs and Public Health, Jorge Cialzeta informed yesterday of the existence of 18 indigenous and 12 imported cases of people who contracted the disease in Chaco and southern Brazil. As for the locals, in all cases, patients living in the neighborhood's progress, the capital. In other provinces, will continue to add cases imported. The city of Buenos Aires and the province of Buenos Aires and recorded 158 cases imported. In Mendoza, there are 11. Also be affected by imported dengue patients in Formosa, Entre Rios, and even investigating a case in Santa Cruz.

AGENCIES. TUCUMAN, RIOJA AND FLOWS

**Shiloh** · April 2, 2009, 09:16 AM

Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/44...s-casos-dengue

Google translation from Spanish:
In the last 48 hours were detected 1,000 new cases of dengue

Positive diagnoses and arrived in 5164, according to official figures. The most affected province is still the Chaco, Salta and Catamarca followed by

The new cases identified Tuesday and Wednesday joined 1020, according to new data from the Ministry of Health. At the head of the provinces with more patients registered Chaco continues, with 2900 confirmed. Follow Salta (1040) and Catamarca (939).

Meanwhile, authorities announced tucumanas 151 patients seen by the disease, more than double those reported on Monday by the governor Jos? Alperovich. Of these, 26 are laboratory-confirmed cases and three are "autochthonous" (one of the capital and two others from the town of Aguilares). Figures from the National Health portfolio, however, account for only 66 cases in the province.

Provincial Health Minister, Paul Yedlin, yesterday presented a report in the Provincial Legislature on the progress of the disease, but that still does not require an emergency law, today published the newspaper La Nacion.

For its part, the government of Corrientes announced yesterday the installation of "barriers" on the edge of the Chaco, after 30 confirmed cases of dengue in the province, 18 of them "natives" and everyone in the capital.

Health Minister Adolfo Schneider, said that in the coming days, two health posts will be installed to spray vehicles entering the city of Corrientes, on an interprovincial bridge in the Chaco and in the bus terminal.

"The idea of this barrier is that health spray vehicles and raise awareness on the people through the delivery of brochures and information," the official explained correntino to the news agency DyN.

In the city of Buenos Aires, 66 analysis were positive, while 27 others are still under study.

**Shiloh** · April 2, 2009, 04:55 PM

Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46371

HEALTH-ARGENTINA: Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever Is Here
By Marcela Valente

BUENOS AIRES, Apr 2 (IPS) - While the authorities squabble over what or whom to blame, Argentina is suffering its worst epidemic of dengue fever since 1998 in terms of the number of people and the size of the area affected. And on top of that, the most dangerous form of the illness, never recorded here before, has made its appearance.

"There is a major breakout of the disease and it is more serious than in other years, because the number of infected people is larger and more provinces are involved," Dr. Alfredo Seijo, a specialist in infectious diseases in charge of the Dengue Unit at the Mu?iz Hospital in Buenos Aires, told IPS.

But official information about the epidemic is confusing. The figures mentioned so far by the national authorities are much lower than those communicated by local officials and other healthcare personnel.

After playing down the problem, Argentina's Health Minister, Graciela Oca?a, finally admitted this week that the situation "is serious" and sent extra help to the northern province of Chaco, the most affected area, in spite of the provincial government's reluctance to acknowledge the problem.

Oca?a said Monday that 4,147 people had contracted the dengue virus in six provinces, and that most of them had been infected on Argentine soil. Only about 400 are "imported" cases, that is, people who have acquired the virus in another country or region. However, a confidential report by the Chaco provincial emergency committee for dengue prevention and control stated that there were already 11,363 confirmed cases. In Charata alone, a town of 35,000 people in southwestern Chaco, the local authorities have recorded more than 4,000 dengue sufferers, but the provincial government denies this figure.

Dengue fever, an endemic disease in tropical areas, has spread like wildfire this year in Bolivia, where 45,000 cases were reported, 22 of which were fatal. It was, according to experts, the largest epidemic in the history of the country. Paraguay and Brazil have also notified cases of dengue fever.

In Argentina even the most conservative figures, such as those reported by the Health Ministry, lead to the conclusion that the epidemic is the worst since the virus reappeared in the country in the late 1990s. In the intervening period, the worst outbreaks occurred in 2004 and 2007, with nearly 2,000 cases reported on each occasion, according to the ministry's Epidemiology Department.

So far the Health Ministry has not reported any fatal cases, but in Chaco, two women are said to have died from the illness, and another death has been reported in the adjacent province of Salta.

"During a dengue epidemic, the official numbers of people affected are lower than the real numbers because politicians tend to withhold information, and also because there are people with asymptomatic infections who are not recorded," Seijo said.

Classical dengue or "breakbone" fever is a viral disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The symptoms are fever, severe headache and muscle and joint pains; mild cases can be mistaken for the flu. It is usually treated with painkillers, but aspirin should be avoided as it tends to stimulate internal bleeding.

There are four serotypes of the virus, and although patients acquire immunity to the particular serotype that infected them, they can be infected a second time by a different serotype. A second infection with any other type of the virus carries a much higher risk of evolving into dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).

DHF is the most severe form of the disease, causing bleeding and shock, and it can be fatal. It appeared for the first time in Argentina this year.

The Health Ministry in Salta reported eight cases of DHF in March, but the national ministry only recognises three cases in Chaco, and none in Salta. Seijo warned that the expansion of classical dengue is creating a large pool of patients who are sensitised to the dengue virus and therefore vulnerable to contracting DHF.

"The longer the time period between the first and second infections, the greater the risk of getting the haemorrhagic form of dengue fever," he warned, noting that in Cuba there have been cases of patients suffering from DHF 20 years after their first infection with classical dengue fever.

Saijo said the dengue fever epidemics are getting constantly worse because of the number of infected people, the number of countries where the virus is found and the increase in cases of DHF. Argentina is following the same pattern, and he predicted that the problem could get even worse during 2009.

Mass migration, poor standards of urbanisation, lack of clean water and badly managed sanitation are all factors that create a breeding ground for the mosquito, he said.

"There is no vaccine, so we need to control the mosquito population, and this is not being done effectively," he said. "The strategies are designed by people behind desks who are ignorant of the reality on the ground."

The situation in Chaco is a case in point.

Rolando N??ez, of the non-governmental Nelson Mandela Research and Study Centre, based in Resistencia, the provincial capital, told IPS that Chaco province combines several of the factors that can fuel the spread of dengue fever.

"Nearly 70 percent of the population lacks piped water," the activist said. And at times of drought, the situation is even worse. Last July the Provincial Water Administration announced that it was building reservoirs to collect rainwater in the wet season.

"These reservoirs are dammed lakes open to the sky, sited all round the towns, and they are breeding grounds for mosquitoes," complained N??ez. Meanwhile, the health authorities are encouraging people to get rid of the pots and containers they use to collect rainwater for their own consumption, in order to eliminate mosquitoes.

N??ez said that in Chaco solid waste is not disposed of properly and there has been an extraordinary increase in disposable packaging and containers. A demographic explosion is also under way in urban centres because the expansion of soy bean cultivation has forced the rural population to migrate to the cities.

In these circumstances, the provincial authorities "should implement strict epidemiological monitoring," but instead "they down-graded the department in charge of surveillance and prevention" of the dengue outbreak, he said.

Then "they denied the truth, played it down and prohibited any reporting," and it was only at the end of March that they began to act, when the epidemic was already full-blown, N??ez said. (END/2009)

**Shiloh** · April 3, 2009, 10:00 PM

Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://en.mercopress.com/2009/04/04/...engue-epidemic

Saturday, April 4th 2009 - 12:08 am UTC
Mercosur experts elaborate plan to address dengue epidemic

Mercosur sanitary experts met this week in Asuncion, Paraguay to address the mosquito transmitted dengue disease which is affecting all countries of the region (except Uruguay and Chile) with tens of thousand cases confirmed.

The dengue control experts discussed the possibility of implanting a unified vigilance sanitary system and agreed to elaborate on proposals to be presented in June in Paraguay when the rotating Mercosur chair will be passed on to Uruguay for the following six months.

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay are Mercosur full members and Chile and Bolivia associates.

In Buenos Aires the Argentine government admitted this week that the dengue outbreak in the Northern provinces is the ?worst on record?, but rejected describing the situation as a ?national epidemic?. ?It?s the worst year on record? said the head of the Public Health Ministry Epidemiology Department Juan Carlos Bossio. The epidemic in the Northern provinces has caused so far five deaths and another two are under investigation.

The officially accepted number of dengue cases is 6.200 although private sources and local officials in the affected provinces say the figure is closer to 11.000, and seven times more than in 2004, the highest previous record.

However, autochthonous or imported cases have been reported in fourteen of Argentina?s 24 provinces including several in the sprawling slum rings at the outskirts of the capital Buenos Aires

?Strictly speaking it is not a national epidemic. What we have are outbreaks in several clearly identified areas of the country?, said Bossio. He also revealed that so far ?five provinces (neighbouring Bolivia and Paraguay) have detected autochthonous transmission of the dengue virus?, however he pointed out that ?in each of them the disease is not extended to the whole territory?.

?We were expecting cases of dengue, but it is probable that in some provinces reactions were slow, tests and diagnosis were done too late and this helped the proliferation of the virus with the aedes agyptus mosquito?, said Bossio.

But Infectology expert Tom?s Ordu?a remarked that ?the sanitary system failed dismally for not reacting on time?. He said that in Argentina sanitary authorities were ?well aware that the dengue outbreak in Bolivia ballooned to over 50.000 cases in a few weeks?. ?I think we must be humble and learn the lesson which tells us that dengue does exist in Argentina?, said Ordu?a.

Meantime in neighbouring Paraguay sanitary authorities confirmed 36 new cases of dengue totalling over 1.000. Local authorities called on communities to help combat the disease by eliminating stagnant water where the larvae of the mosquito proliferates, and recommended the use of insect repellents and consulting doctors whenever any of the symptoms of the disease.

In Brazil dengue has become endemic and at least 36 deaths have been reported in the north-eastern states.

**Shiloh** · April 5, 2009, 04:53 PM

Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://www.elargentino.com/nota-3559...n-el-pais.html

Google translation:
And six cases
Another death from dengue hemorrhagic fever in the country

05-04-2009 / The victim was identified as Reyna Recalde de Villena, a former councilor of the party of Oran. Her husband is also there. Concern in the country. Charat rained on and believe that the situation may worsen in the area, in Catamarca, withdrew 100 thousand pounds of scrap every week to deal with this disease. Claudio Zin days ago warned of the emergence of a more resistant mosquito.

A woman from the city of Oran salte?a died of a picture of dengue hemorrhagic fever, informed authorities of San Vicente de Paul Hospital in that city, where he was interned.

The woman was identified as Reyna Recalde de Villena, a former councilor of the party of Oran, whose husband, the owner of a local radio station, was also interned with symptoms of dengue. With this death, but three people died of dengue in Salta, while six reported fatalities in the country.

Catamarca extreme measures to prevent

In Catamarca are 692 registered cases of dengue, but none of this type of bleeding was noted. In addition, there are more than 6,500 suspected cases, while investigating the death of Maria Cristina Aragon of 51 years, reportedly because of dengue.

Against this background the town prompted strong operational, cleaning junk eradication as a means of preventing the spread of mosquito that transmits the virus of this disease.

The Director of Urban Hygiene capital of the commune, Sergio Ramos, he said "are removed weekly and raise about 100 thousand kilograms of scrap." All trash collected are for the Treatment Plant Solid Waste in the municipality of the provincial capital.

Another mosquito, the greater concern

Days ago, the health minister warned bonaerense Claudio Zin on the occurrence of Aedes albopictus, another mosquito transmitted disease and is much more resilient. "
Zin stressed the need to take steps to control this vector as "pica anything having blood" and because this mosquito is more resistant to low temperatures and takes place without problems in urban areas.

Charat, capital of dengue in Argentina

In this city of the province of Chaco four people died because of illness. This place is the most affected country. The situation worsens every day and to top it again in the final hours to rain so the accumulation of water complicates the fight against dengue.

Furthermore, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health of the Nation, the total confirmed cases of dengue 5830, three of which are affected by the hemorrhagic variant, and 194 other suspected cases of this epidemic that began in January . The largest outbreak of dengue fever had been in 2004, with 1493 cases in the provinces of Salta, Jujuy and Formosa.

**Shiloh** · April 8, 2009, 09:13 PM

Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30115212/

Dengue outbreak in Argentina now ?epidemic?
Nearly 8,000 have the disease, according to nation?s health ministry

updated 6:35 p.m. ET, Wed., April 8, 2009

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Health Minister Graciela Ocana said Wednesday that a dengue outbreak in the country has worsened to an epidemic, as nearly 8,000 people are officially reported to be infected with the disease.

"Dengue is here to stay," Ocana said.

Ocana had previously insisted that there was no epidemic. But local news media and political leaders in towns and cities affected by the mosquito-borne disease claimed the national government was underreporting the numbers to calm fears and avoid blame for not addressing the problem sooner.

While the Health Ministry says the northern province of Chaco ? one of the worst hit ? has registered 3,590 cases, Amalsi Ruiz, a spokesman for the provincial town of Charata, said nearly four times as many people are infected, based on house-to-house surveys and hospital visits.

The Ministry said there are 7,869 cases throughout the country ? up from around 5,800 on Friday.

Dengue can incapacitate patients with severe headaches, joint pains, high fever and nausea. There is no specific medication to treat it, but authorities recommend consulting a doctor and drinking plenty of fluids.

Six people have died, including three infected with the severe hemorrhagic variant, which accounts for a fraction of dengue cases.

"This is a problem that we should confront and which we are confronting," Ocana said, adding that the national sanitary service is mobilized and combatting the epidemic.

The Health Ministry has launched a national campaign to educate people on dengue prevention, including wearing insect repellant and covering exposed body parts with thick clothing.

Authorities say Argentina's worst outbreak since the disease reappeared in the country in 1997 is linked to an epidemic in neighboring Bolivia, which has registered 51,000 cases.

The Aedes aegypti mosquito carries the disease. Most cases are not fatal.

**Shiloh** · April 11, 2009, 04:53 PM

Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://www.ansa.it/ansalatina/notizi...534859043.html

ARGENTINA
PREOCUPA BROTE DE DENGUE EN BUENOS AIRES

Google translation:
CONCERNED FOR DENGUE OUTBREAK IN BUENOS AIRES

BUENOS AIRES, 11 (ANSA) - Middle hundred cases of dengue were detected in the city of Buenos Aires, of which six are considered "native" (originated in the area), which generated the alarm while the population of Buenos Aires the epidemic spreading in the north.
The head of the Buenos Aires government Epidemiology, Ra?l Forlenza, confirmed today that 52 people living in the capital had "positive results" of dengue, of which six did not travel to areas involved by the disease.
The rest became infected from a trip to the north, a major focus of the epidemic, on the borders with Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil.
"These are confirmed cases in private laboratories, but lack official confirmation," said Forlenza, in statements to the television channel TN.
Meanwhile, Health Minister of the province of Buenos Aires, Claudio Zin, today confirmed the existence of a dozen cases of "native" territory of dengue in Buenos Aires, where 40 percent of the population.
"We suspect at least a dozen indigenous cases in the province," he stressed Zin, but clarified that it await the official confirmation.
In all cases in the province, local and imported, are 150.
Zin, told Radio Miter, criticized the fact that "the impact could be mitigated sufficiently to the existence of the disease in neighboring countries.
It is estimated that in Brazil reported 114,355 cases of dengue this year, against 45,907 cases in 1146 in Bolivia and Paraguay.
Only two provinces in the north, Formosa (border with Paraguay) and Misiones (Brazil border), no cases of dengue and the local authorities attribute it to prevention efforts prior to the recent epidemics of yellow fever and malaria in neighbors. According to official information from the Ministry of Health, Argentina in 8766 the total registered cases, while more than 11,000 press mentions. (ANSA). MRZ
11/04/2009 22:05

**Shiloh** · April 13, 2009, 04:30 PM

Re: Argentina: Dengue cases

Source: http://momento24.com/en/2009/04/13/d...ases-in-chaco/

Dengue: 6,000 officially confirmed cases in Chaco
Posted on 13 April 2009 at 16:07

The confirmed cases of dengue add 6.072, according to the last report released by the Room of Situation that is in charge of distributing the official information about the issue.

The organism ratified the ?decreasing tendency? of added up cases every three days.

Of little more than six thousand cases accumulated from the beginning of the epidemic outbreak ?the enormous majority were solved? with full reestablishment of the health and ?without possibilities? of transmission of the illness, makes sure the official report.

Cases of dengue confirmed in the province of Chaco by locality are: Charata 2.348, S?enz Pe?a 1.178, Pampa del Infierno 892, Tres Isletas 697, Long Field 630, General Pinedo 189, Avia Terai 67, Gancedo 41, Colonel Du Graty 27 and Enrique Urien 3. In Resistencia, Las Bre?as and Juan Jose Castelli there are ?feverish patients in study?, the report concludes

**Shiloh** · April 15, 2009, 05:56 AM

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

Gov?t Acknowledges Dengue Epidemic in Northern Argentina

BUENOS AIRES ? The Argentine government on Tuesday acknowledged that there is a dengue fever epidemic in the northern province of Chaco, where a regional official admitted that he was showing ?all the symptoms? of the disease after having traveled through the area.

The federal Health Ministry confirmed that 12,875 people had been infected with dengue, in addition to another 355 suspected cases, a figure that is growing daily while civic groups claim that there are some 40,000 cases in the country?s northern and central provinces.

?Charata is the city in Chaco that has the highest rate of dengue. These data allow us to see the evolution of the epidemic,? said the national director for disease and risks, Hugo Fernandez, at a press conference.

Just in Chaco, there are more than 6,600 cases, according to official figures.

Provincial official Domingo Peppo admitted on Tuesday that he had ?all the symptoms? of dengue after he traveled through the worst-affected areas of Chaco to supervise control and prevention activities.

?We hope it?s something else, but I have all the symptoms. I think I took all the precautions, with (mosquito) repellant and the rest, but fine, it?s something that can happen,? he told reporters.

Meanwhile, the Argentine Senate on Wednesday will debate a bill declaring an epidemic alert and a health emergency in the provinces of Chaco, Catamarca, Jujuy and Salta in the face of the worst dengue outbreak in the country?s history.

Catamarca and the city of Cordoba, capital of the same-named province, on Monday declared a health emergency because of the spread of the disease, which is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

According to official figures, the disease has taken four lives since the beginning of the year in the northern Argentine provinces bordering on Paraguay and Bolivia. EFE

**Shiloh** · April 15, 2009, 03:48 PM

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Source: http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={ECF2D084-302D-4252-98EB-C467FC9EADB8})&language=EN

Argentina Dengue Outbreak

Buenos Aires, Apr 15 (Prensa Latina) Argentina's Senate will decide whether to issue an epidemic warning and declare a health emergency in the four provinces suffering from a severe outbreak of dengue.

The measures would be enforced in the northern provinces of Catamarca, Chaco, Jujuy and Salta where according to Health Vice Minister Juan Carlos Nadalich they have 12,544 confirmed dengue cases.

Nadalich denied the need to declare a national emergency and denied data from the organization Medecins du Monde that raises the number of cases to 40,000.

After monitoring several districts, Health Ministry Disease Prevention Director Hugo Fernandez says the number of cases is dropping.

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