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Guatemala: 2010 Dengue cases - 25 fatalities

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Source: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=357003&CategoryId=23558

Two Die from Hemorrhagic Dengue in Southern Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY ? An 11-year-old girl and her 47-year-old aunt died from hemorrhagic dengue in the southern Guatemalan province of Santa Rosa, health officials said Sunday.

The girl died on Friday at Guatemala City?s San Juan de Dios Hospital, where she was taken on an emergency basis, and her aunt died at another hospital, Santa Rosa health department director Erbin Kiesling said.

The victims were apparently bitten by the mosquito that transmits the disease while visiting a tourist attraction last weekend in Santa Rosa, Guatemalan media reported...

...The Health Ministry has declared an alert in Escuintla province, which borders Santa Rosa, due to a spike in classic dengue cases in the region.

Some 5,700 classic dengue cases and 74 hemorrhagic dengue cases, nine of which resulted in deaths, occurred last year in the Central American country, official figures show...
 
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Re: Guatemala: 2010 Dengue cases

Google: Spanish to English translation
Rise to 25 those killed in Guatemala because of dengue hemorrhagic

August 28, 2010 .-
The number deaths from dengue hemorrhagic fever rose to 25 in Guatemala in recent weeks, according to a report released by the health authorities of the Central American country.

Guatemalan Vice Minister of Public Health, Silvia Palma, said that so far this year have killed 25 people infected by the mosquito Aedes aegypti, vectors of dengue, 1939 have been confirmed with the infection, and more than 11,000 boxes have "suspects "to be exposed.

Of the cases recorded, 125 are of the hemorrhagic type, and the other factor.
http://elobservador.rctv.net/Noticias/VerNoticia.aspx?NoticiaId=286410&Tipo=32
 
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