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Declare epidemiological alert for the presence of yellow fever
"Before the report of a possible case of yellow fever in a child who died in the district of Llochegua, Huanta province in Vraem, by the Department of Epidemiology, Emergency and Disaster Ayacucho Regional Health Authority (DIRESA), this Epidemiological Alert declared institution throughout the region.
The alleged victim of the disease was a 16-year-old, who went to the health center Llochegua presenting some of the symptoms of the dreaded yellow fever as high fever, headache, pallor and diarrhea.
In this situation, the executive director of Public Health Surveillance DIRESA, Tania Cardenas Gomez urged people traveling in the next few days the Valley of the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro (Vraem), to apply the vaccine yellow fever with 10 days notice at any health facility.
...he expert recalled that the last major outbreak of yellow fever reported in Ayacucho, came in 2006, in the VRAE, in the districts of Llochegua and Santa Rosa, where there were seven cases, with a fatality rate of 100%."
Declare epidemiological alert for the presence of yellow fever
"Before the report of a possible case of yellow fever in a child who died in the district of Llochegua, Huanta province in Vraem, by the Department of Epidemiology, Emergency and Disaster Ayacucho Regional Health Authority (DIRESA), this Epidemiological Alert declared institution throughout the region.
The alleged victim of the disease was a 16-year-old, who went to the health center Llochegua presenting some of the symptoms of the dreaded yellow fever as high fever, headache, pallor and diarrhea.
In this situation, the executive director of Public Health Surveillance DIRESA, Tania Cardenas Gomez urged people traveling in the next few days the Valley of the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro (Vraem), to apply the vaccine yellow fever with 10 days notice at any health facility.
...he expert recalled that the last major outbreak of yellow fever reported in Ayacucho, came in 2006, in the VRAE, in the districts of Llochegua and Santa Rosa, where there were seven cases, with a fatality rate of 100%."
