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Baby hospitalized in serious condition with symptoms of leptospirosis
13:26 | is the son of a changarines 30, a resident of a suburb of Ober?, whom had been diagnosed with a dangerous infection. Your child has symptoms compatible with disease symptoms and is admitted to the Ober? SAMIC with poor prognosis
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Image of water tank installed after the first confirmed case of leptospirosis
(Ober) After ratification of the first infection of leptospirosis in a 30-year-Ober?, was admitted to his son barely a year old, because it presents a picture consistent with severe symptoms of infection. Doctors have not confirmed the diagnosis of the child, because await the results of laboratory tests. This would be the first cases in the history of Ober?
The child is assisted in the field of pediatrics SAMIC Hospital of that city and has a severe GI box with fever, vomiting and diarrhea, as needed from Public Health. In the next few hours the professionals have an accurate diagnosis. As for his father, Caesar R (30), a porters who lives in the neighborhood of Villa Prosol Stemberg, was hospitalized in intensive care but has been released recently. "Here we do not have running water and we have to look from a spring or stream, but is very polluted and capable that we did wrong. I am better, but the baby is vomiting and became green. We do not know it has, "said Cesar, after leaving intensive care.
The infection took place because the lack of drinking water and poor hygienic conditions in which lives the man, his partner and their seven children. The smallest is the one who is hospitalized at this time. Leptospirosis is a febrile disease caused by Leptospira interrogans, a bacterium that affects humans and a wide range of animals, including mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles. The main symptoms in most cases are fever, headache, muscle aches, joint and bone disorders, jaundice, kidney failure, bleeding, and involvement of the meninges.
It is a zoonotic disease that can cause death or chronic renal, renal or hepatic function. The infection is commonly transmitted to humans when water has been contaminated by animal urine is placed in direct contact with lesions on the skin, eyes or mucous membranes. The incubation period is usually ten days.
Therefore, experts say the disease prevention consists of good health, which contrast with the area where the family resides affected. At the site, according to the Territory, and weeds proliferate vacant, no access to safe water and only since the confirmed case began to take the forecasts. The neighbors claimed the need for extreme control, because "there are many landfills that do the same neighbors and capueras. There are many stray dogs and rats are away. "
Responding to an emergency when there were two infections, Public Works staff installed yesterday the City water tank outside the house of the affected family and made weeding the banks of the stream that crosses the field. Also put up a sign banning consigning consume water of the course, an unavoidable practice in the area, given the lack of drinking water.
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