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http://www.tiempo.hn/web2/editoriales/18259-alarmante-epidemia.html
Spanish to English translation
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 19:03
Alarming epidemic in Honduras
The dengue epidemic has spilled into Honduras and threatens to decimate our population. It is estimated that one person dies every day in public hospitals for dengue hemorrhagic fever.
There has been a resurgence of dengue in Central America and some Latin American countries, in some measure by the abundance of rainfall, but, as far as Honduras is concerned, by neglect in the fight to the transmitter of this disease, Aedes aegypti mosquito.
The explosion in the variety of deadly dengue, hemorrhagic, due to the dengue fever has been growing rapidly without the population has becoming aware of the danger of this epidemiological phenomenon. Dengue hemorrhagic fever occurs in people who have had dengue fever before.
The Health Ministry is a crimp in their ability to receive all dengue patients, as there are so many sick people to hospital capacity. Accordingly, the government no choice, decided to hospitalize only those affected dengue hemorrhagic fever.
In view of this situation, certainly emergency, it is shown that the public health system needs the cooperation of the entire population to address this problem. It also requires the support of private health care system, which must adhere to the guidelines established by the Ministry of Health.
According to health authorities, the fact that the private health system has not been strictly followed these guidelines for diagnosis, in turn a product of experience and expertise of the World Health Organization (PAHO), has helped to aggravate the situation when patients finally, in the later stages, ending in public hospitals.
But even with these disadvantages, the key is the attitude of the majority of Hondurans, which ignores the calls to observe the measures required to prevent the proliferation of mosquitoes. Do not clean the brush, prevent stagnation of water, do not apply insecticides known as "untadita" of an abbot, and finally, leave it all to the good of God and government action.
The best proof that this is so we have by comparison with what happened with the H1N1 influenza epidemic, which has practically been overcome, not by the cooperation of the people but by virtue of vaccination. If there is a vaccine for dengue, the story would be.
In this sense, it is logical the initiative of the Ministry of Health for the executive decree a state of emergency in health and epidemic dengue, and the request to the municipal governments to apply coercive means to compel people to observe the measures necessary to combat the plague of mosquitoes and prevent massive infestations throughout the country.
Last Updated (Tuesday, June 22, 2010 19:05)
Spanish to English translation
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 19:03
Alarming epidemic in Honduras
The dengue epidemic has spilled into Honduras and threatens to decimate our population. It is estimated that one person dies every day in public hospitals for dengue hemorrhagic fever.
There has been a resurgence of dengue in Central America and some Latin American countries, in some measure by the abundance of rainfall, but, as far as Honduras is concerned, by neglect in the fight to the transmitter of this disease, Aedes aegypti mosquito.
The explosion in the variety of deadly dengue, hemorrhagic, due to the dengue fever has been growing rapidly without the population has becoming aware of the danger of this epidemiological phenomenon. Dengue hemorrhagic fever occurs in people who have had dengue fever before.
The Health Ministry is a crimp in their ability to receive all dengue patients, as there are so many sick people to hospital capacity. Accordingly, the government no choice, decided to hospitalize only those affected dengue hemorrhagic fever.
In view of this situation, certainly emergency, it is shown that the public health system needs the cooperation of the entire population to address this problem. It also requires the support of private health care system, which must adhere to the guidelines established by the Ministry of Health.
According to health authorities, the fact that the private health system has not been strictly followed these guidelines for diagnosis, in turn a product of experience and expertise of the World Health Organization (PAHO), has helped to aggravate the situation when patients finally, in the later stages, ending in public hospitals.
But even with these disadvantages, the key is the attitude of the majority of Hondurans, which ignores the calls to observe the measures required to prevent the proliferation of mosquitoes. Do not clean the brush, prevent stagnation of water, do not apply insecticides known as "untadita" of an abbot, and finally, leave it all to the good of God and government action.
The best proof that this is so we have by comparison with what happened with the H1N1 influenza epidemic, which has practically been overcome, not by the cooperation of the people but by virtue of vaccination. If there is a vaccine for dengue, the story would be.
In this sense, it is logical the initiative of the Ministry of Health for the executive decree a state of emergency in health and epidemic dengue, and the request to the municipal governments to apply coercive means to compel people to observe the measures necessary to combat the plague of mosquitoes and prevent massive infestations throughout the country.
Last Updated (Tuesday, June 22, 2010 19:05)