Honduras: 2010 Dengue 70,000 cases, 81 fatalities

[Tonka]

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Classic and hemorrhagic dengue hits Honduras

Given the incidence reiterates the call for people to take preventive measures eradicating breeding grounds for the aedes aegypti mosquito, transmitter of the disease
06.02.10 -- Updated: 06.02.10 08:07 pm -- Editors: redaccion@elheraldo.hn

Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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The cases of classic dengue and hemorrhagic show a spike in just 35 days a year.

According to the data handled by the Ministry of Health in epidemiological week 4 in the country recorded 1.406 cases of dengue fever.
This represents an increase of 57 percent from the same epidemiological week of 2009.The capital city continues to rank first with 667 cases of classic.

As relates to dengue hemorrhagic fever are reported eight cases of these six persons are residing in the Central District.

It confirms one death from dengue hemorrhagic fever. The name originated and where the victim was not revealed.

With respect to suspected dengue cases are studied 361 patients. Note that the vulnerable segments of the population such as children and elderly are suffering from this disease.

Given the incidence reiterates the call for people to take preventive measures eradicating breeding grounds for the aedes aegypti mosquito, transmitter of the disease.

It was reported that no official of the Ministry of Health dared to provide information on these statistics.

Apparently, the new health authorities have forbidden to reveal statistics of dengue and influence A H1N1, not knowing for what purpose

 

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Death Toll from Hemorrhagic Dengue Rises to 4 in Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA ? A pregnant woman died from hemorrhagic dengue in Honduras, raising the death toll from the disease in the Central American country to four this year, the Health Ministry said.

The 19-year-old woman was from Jutiapa, a city in the Caribbean province of Atlantida, and died at a hospital in the region several days ago.

The Health Ministry had confirmed Thursday that a 17-year-old boy from Orica, a city in the central province of Francisco Morazan, died at the public Teaching Hospital in Tegucigalpa, becoming the third person to die from hemorrhagic dengue in Honduras this year.

A teenager and a man died from the mosquito-borne disease in February.

Dengue, a serious viral disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, is characterized by high fever, intense headaches, muscle pain, gastro-intestinal problems and rashes.

Hemorrhagic dengue, in addition to having symptoms associated with classic dengue, like fever, headaches and joint pain, can also produce internal bleeding.

Health officials have registered 3,124 cases of classic dengue this year, while 172 hemorrhagic dengue cases, including the four people who died, have been confirmed.

Some 500 other people are believed to have contracted hemorrhagic dengue in Honduras this year, health officials said.

Four adults and eight children died from hemorrhagic dengue in Honduras last year.

Honduras reported at least 367 cases and nine deaths from hemorrhagic dengue in 2008, while classic dengue cases totaled more than 16,000.

 

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Honduras: Child 5th. died of hemorrhagic dengue

04/23/1910 - Updated: 23/04/1910 1:47 pm - Writing: redaccion@laprensa.hn




Tegucigalpa, Honduras

A child of five years originating from the town of Marcovia Choluteta is the fifth fatality from dengue hemorrhagic fever confirmed today the authorities of the Secretary of Health of Honduras.
The Director of Epidemiological Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Thomas Guevara, reported that are reported in Honduras this week about 18 new cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever and 400 of classical diseases transmitted by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

"During the week number 38 in September last year in Honduras has increased the number of cases of classic dengue and hemorrhagic fever. We could not have effective control over this situation," said Guevara, who also called on the population and the trustees to prevent further transmission over the mosquito dengue.

The authorities reported that seven new cases are reported with the virus of influenza A H1N1 for a total of 94 during 2010. Honduras has reported 10 deaths from this pandemic that caused thousands of deaths worldwide. In a grant from the World Health Organization, health teams have begun a campaign to vaccinate more than a million Hondurans to prevent new cases.

On Monday the start Honduras Immunization Day of the Americas 2010 to immunize children against polio, tetanus and give vitamin supplements to children. Also on Monday began the vaccination campaign against influenza A H1N1, that just runs through May 7 at the national level.

According to the authorities of the Ministry of Health, is immunized at least one million 400 thousand Hondurans, especially high-risk groups, school children, the elderly, pregnant women and people with chronic diseases.

The vaccine doses were sponsored by cooperating agencies in coordination with the Ministry of Health of Honduras, the World Health Organization, WHO and the Pan American Health Organization, PAHO.

Some 7000 people have been immunized in Honduras to date, with health workers and social communicators receiving the first dose.
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Death Toll from Hemorrhagic Dengue Rises to 8 in Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA ? The death toll from hemorrhagic dengue has risen to eight in Honduras, the Health Ministry said.

Two deaths occurred last week, and health officials are investigating four other deaths, the secretariat said, without providing details about the victims.

The number of cases of both classic dengue and hemorrhagic dengue has been rising, prompting health officials to urge the public to take measures to prevent the spread of the mosquito that transmits the disease.

More than 6,000 cases of classic dengue have been registered this year, while 400 hemorrhagic dengue cases have been reported, the secretariat said.

Hemorrhagic dengue killed 12 people ? four adults and eight children ? in the Central American country in 2009.

Honduras reported at least 367 cases and nine deaths from hemorrhagic dengue in 2008, while classic dengue cases totaled more than 16,000...

 

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16 Die from Dengue in Honduras


TEGUCIGALPA ? At least 16 people have died from hemorrhagic dengue this year in Honduras, where a campaign is under way to eradicate the mosquito that carries the disease, health officials said.

Four new deaths ? a man and two women ? were confirmed in Tegucigalpa, while another woman died in the Caribbean port city of La Ceiba, the Health Ministry?s National Dengue Certification Commission said.

At least 515 hemorrhagic dengue cases and 14,609 classic dengue cases have been registered this year in the Central American country, the commission said.

The majority of dengue cases have occurred in the central provinces of Francisco Morazan, which includes Tegucigalpa, and Comayagua; the eastern provinces of El Paraiso and Olancho; and the northern province of Cortes, Health Ministry epidemiology monitoring chief Tomas Guevara said.

The government declared a state of emergency last month due to the high dengue infection rate and is carrying out a fumigation campaign to kill the mosquito that carries the disease.

Dengue, a serious viral disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, is characterized by high fever, intense headaches, muscle pain, gastro-intestinal problems and rashes.

Hemorrhagic dengue, in addition to having symptoms associated with classic dengue, like fever, headaches and joint pain, can also produce internal bleeding.

Hemorrhagic dengue killed 12 people ? four adults and eight children ? in the Central American country in 2009.

Honduras reported at least 367 cases and nine deaths from hemorrhagic dengue in 2008, while classic dengue cases totaled more than 16,000.
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Doctors: the dead from dengue reach 50
Deputy Health Minister, Javier Pastor, denied that the figures are hidden victims of dengue
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras

The actual number of deaths from dengue could not have been formalizing the health authorities.

Hospital Medical School, who asked to omit their identity for fear of reprisals, said yesterday that the Ministry of Health "hidden figures" because according to them, killed by dengue are 50 and not 19 as they have been formalizing the health authorities.
These statements published on Web sites and radio news sparked a new controversy that was answered by the Deputy Health Minister Xavier Pastor.

The official said that the Certification Committee of the Health Ministry is "seriously and takes into consideration the practice tests that are unfortunately people who have died" due to dengue in the country.

Caregivers who reported they mentioned that the Health Minister Arturo Bendana, has banned provide accurate data on pain of firing workers who talk about it.

As has transpired, due to report the situation that occurs in the halls of the Hospital School was removed from office Merino Dr. Miguel Mejia, who served as head of the Board of dengue. He was allegedly for criticizing the late campaign against dengue.

Shepherd confirmed that currently recorded 19 deaths from dengue, three of them in the certification process, and five cases studied. He recalled that the media have been in direct contact with them to know the actions that are performed and the numbers presented by the upsurge of dengue in Honduras.

Yesterday some international news agencies were released yesterday that victims of dengue in effect were 19, but mentioned that one of the deceased is a teenager who died in San Pedro Sula Mario Rivas hospital. On this particular he was asked the Minister of Health, who said that in San Pedro Sula were no new deaths.

The minister said that the Secretariat had 16 cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever certificates and are redoubling efforts to combat the virus. On Wednesday, the Certification Commission Dengue officially the last three victims. There were three girls who died between the weekend and Monday, bringing the death toll to 19.

About the death of a teenager in the hospital course Mario Rivas said they had no record of this death.

"Just because someone has suffered fever does not mean that a victim of dengue. It is important that laboratory-confirmed cases are not to give bad information, "the official said.
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Former Italian Consulate Dies in Honduras

A former Consulate of Italy in Honduras, Francesco Campos, died yesterday of hemorrhagic dengue. Campos died in a private hospital in Tegucigalpa, a week after being interned.

Mr. Campos left his duties as consul in 2002, and retired three years later. He was in Guatemala and then returned to Honduras where he was living with a Honduran woman.

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Death Toll from Hemorrhagic Dengue in Honduras Now 23

TEGUCIGALPA ? The death toll from hemorrhagic dengue fever in Honduras has risen to 23, Health Minister Arturo Benda?a reported Monday.

He provided no details about the four new fatalities.

Benda?a told reporters that health authorities so far this year have registered 705 cases of hemorrhagic dengue and 22,466 cases of the common ? and substantially less fatal ? variety of dengue fever.

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Honduras: Three dengue deaths in 24 hours

Posted on Saturday July 31st at 11:19 pm


The wake of Eva Maria Jimenez, 33, was held at the community center of the El Bosque neighborhood, in Tegucigalpa.

She carried in her womb, for one and a half, her second shoot. He dreamed of graduating public accountant at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), but his dream came to an end because of dengue.

And Eva Maria Jimenez, 33, never imagined that after showing symptoms of dengue his life would be extinguished.

She began to betray signs of disease over a week ago, so went to the health center in the El Bosque neighborhood.

According to the testimony of relatives, Mrs., finding no improvement in the health center near the house of his parents, decided to continue his treatment at the health center in the Nueva Suyapa, a place where he lived.

Fever, muscle pain and blood pressure kept the young prostrate, but it was only yesterday that the school admitted to hospital after bleed.

The patient died in less than seven hours after being hospitalized and that showed clinical signs of shock, which means that his vital organs had collapsed.

The remains of the deceased were removed from the morgue at the medical center about 11:30 am for a wake in the middle of El Bosque neighborhood community.

Grief in Sabanagrande

The same shade of mourning and grief that the family tucked Jimenez Rosales at dawn yesterday, because of the dengue mosquito bites, appeared in one of the families of the village of La Trinidad, in the municipality of Sabanagrande.

The death of Marta Oliva Aguilar, 42, left four young people living in sorrow, because her mother was the sole breadwinner of the house.

"My mom was for us the better, because although my dad helped us with some expenses, she was protecting us against everything," said Walter Aguilar, eldest son.

The lady took up work as a housewife, because after splitting with the father of their children struggle to become good people.

The entry of the patient to the hospital school was held on Thursday at 11:00 am, but his condition was still stable. "When we brought her to the hospital she showed some symptoms such as dizziness, vomiting and fever, but later was complicated," said the mourner.

The death of Mrs. occurred near midnight, according to the autopsy died of dengue category D.

The body of the woman was taken to his home community for their families.

Other victims

Within 24 hours, according to the report of the hospital, three adults died of the deadly disease, the third dead Santos Dom?nguez D?az, 50, a native of El Paraiso.

The old man died on Friday afternoon, minutes before he entered the country's main medical center.

The total number of victims because of the deadly dengue hemorrhagic fever this week was seven, children and adults.

Health authorities have reported that 70 percent of dengue patients who are hospitalized in critical condition arrive, so they ask people to go immediately to hospital.

According to health authorities, the numbers have begun to present a slight decrease. To date there have been 27.677 cases of classic dengue and 853 of the hemorrhagic variant, 31 reported killed

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2 killed, although dengue fever is on the "bottom"
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TEGUCIGALPA .- Two more deaths were certified yesterday in the capital for dengue hemorrhagic fever, although the disease is going down.


Up to Epidemiological Week No. 29, 20 deaths were recorded in health centers of the capital, reported in this geographical map.
Of the total cases recorded in the DC metropolitan area with 18.297, which represents 54 percent of all cases nationwide. Olancho followed with 3.222, which is 10 percent and the metropolitan area of San Pedro Sula to 2.672, which is 8 percent.

However, health authorities believe the epidemic begins to sag in its intensity, since in the 150 Hospital School of income they reported last week, this only reported 55.

The Head of Epidemiological Surveillance of the Ministry of Health, Thomas Guevara, said that "in this epidemiological week 29, confirmed two new deaths, for a total of 33 deaths from dengue hemorrhagic fever."

"The decline of patients admitted with suspected dengue the first medical center of the country because the population is beginning to integrate this campaign of the Ministry of Health following that have realized that dengue is a disease that can result in death, "said Guevara.

Guevara abounded that several cases under investigation to be submitted to the National Commission on Certification of Dengue (NCCD) and will be reported in subsequent weeks.

However, the expert in pathology and medicine, is of the opinion that the deaths caused by epidemics, are confirmed by epidemiological linkage, ie if the characteristics of other deaths, in this case the dengue.


Victims of dengue are transferred daily from the Boards of Medicine to the hospital morgue.
These deaths should always be submitted to the NDCC also because patients were cared for by the hemorrhagic variant, also many other illnesses suffered joined them today.

What is recommended is that medical personnel who care for patients of dengue in the file attached to all laboratory studies and clinical management that gave the patient before his death, because ultimately the clinical record is set out the cause of death certification.

It has been known that the first deaths from dengue to start the year, deducted a dengue cases admitted to hospitals, however, suffered from other diseases and would have dismissed as dengue, so they may reconsider these cases.
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[Ronan Kelly]

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Eight deaths from dengue hemorrhagic fever in three days
Saturation of patients in hospitals results in the collapse of equipment for blood counts
02/08/1910 - Updated: 08/02/1910 10:18 pm - Writing: redaccion@laprensa.hn


Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Between Saturday and yesterday, Monday, in the capital killed eight others due to dengue hemorrhagic fever, officials of the Hospital School.

A day after his birthday, Josu? ?lvaro Raudales, 20, stopped breathing.

Dengue haemorrhagic fever was the cause of death of young man who dreamed of graduating at the end of the year of Bachelor Degree in Computing at the Institute Jos? Pineda Gomez of the colony La Joya.

117-5593 In the case corresponding to the patient detailing how the deadly virus what led to the collapse of his kidneys.

From Saturday to Monday morning eight adults died because of dengue hemorrhagic fever, seven in the Teaching Hospital and one at the military hospital. So far these deaths are not official and therefore not included in the records of the certification committee of dengue.

Health officials yesterday confirmed two new deaths, which amounts to 33 the official death toll so far this year. The current case fatality rate, according to health authorities, is 3.5%. Thomas Guevara, head of Health Surveillance, explained that between the two new deaths formalized is that of a 17 year old originally from Atlantis who died in the Mario Catarino Rivas hospital.

The other confirmed fatality is a 16-year resident of the Santa Teresita, Central District.

Blood count teams collapse

The saturation of dengue patients in health centers of the reason the suspension of capital equipment for blood counts.
In Alonso Suazo Health Center for two days remain suspended blood.

Mitzi Castro, chief of the Laboratory, explained that the machine called Tetra 80 is one of those affected.

The lack of equipment forced the authorities in the health center to submit samples of hospitalized patients to the laboratory of the National Autonomous University of Honduras, UNAH.

"We're sending about ten samples per day UNAH belonging to patients hospitalized for dengue in the room, the rest is sent to laboratories in other health centers," said Castro.

They are between 300-400 samples per day that are left to process, because the inordinate amount of febrile patients in the health center continues.

"Patients arriving with symptoms of dengue are sent for testing to determine if you have dengue, then they are hospitalized or sent home if their care as outpatients," said the interviewee.

Packed with the Catarino Rivas

Hospital capacity has been assigned in the Mario Catarino Rivas due to high demand of patients with symptoms of dengue hemorrhagic arriving daily to seek care.

Yesterday morning there were 24 insiders between children and adults, but they were high eight patients, so the amount was reduced to 16.

Of those hospitalized were two women who had more severe symptoms of the disease, the doctors were in constant surveillance.

The greatest influx occurs in the area of care for adults, where first patients are being evaluated and then enter them, based on the outcome of the CBC that they practice.

Open clinic in the Leonardo

The hospital's director, Victor Hernandez, said the outcome of patients has been satisfactory, as most of the cases that are being addressed and Type B have been so far not reported any deaths.

Hernandez said that yesterday opened a clinic in the hospital feverish Leonardo Martinez who will attend from seven in the morning to the feel of the night. This will lower the number of patients in the hospital Mario Rivas.

The director of the Metropolitan Region of Health, Julio Rodriguez, said the report of the commission for certification of dengue are confirmed eight new cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever in San Pedro Sula, so that number 25. The classic dengue are also increasing, to date there have been over 2,500 cases.

Today the Committee meets Inter-Agency Anti-Dengue from nine o'clock in the 105th Brigade where he shall make known the plan to be carried out in the city to drastically reduce the incidence of dengue cases destroying farms mosquito doing massive cleaning days and other activities.
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Ten patients dying from dengue hemorrhagic fever

In the midst of the epidemic, medical reports state that it has detected a resurgence of H1N1 influenza A 08/04/1910 - Updated: 04/08/1910 4:00 a.m. - Writing: redaccion@laprensa.hn

San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Despite constant warnings about the epidemic prevention of dengue, most Hondurans continue to show apathy toward the vector and unfortunately seek medical help only when the damage is almost irreversible or fatal.

Proof of this is that in recent days, many patients arrive in serious condition and even shock at Hospital Escuela in the capital.

According to hospital records, more than fifteen patients have been received in the last five days in critical condition and of these, five have died. Among the victims are pregnant women, adults and youth.

During the emergency, internal medicine, EMI, ten adults dying from dengue.

Three arrived in critical condition could not be stabilized and the doctors fear the worst.

In the ward does not lower the number of admitted: 45 patients receiving permanent assistance. The same situation is reported in the pediatric ward, where dozens of children are assisted permanently. Mark Miller, director of the Hospital School, said after a meeting with the health authorities took the decision to hire six more doctors to treat patients with dengue. "There are 22 general practitioners who recruited, eight professional nurses and 17 nursing assistants," he said. On weekends, according to the official increase in both emergency patients, so it has been necessary to hire more staff.

Influenza A H1N1 resurfaces

In case of dengue was not enough, Tito Alvarado, infectious diseases, says that in private hospitals has been detected a slight resurgence in patients with influenza A H1N1. The cases have been confirmed. "There are a decreased sense of dengue, but if rainfall conditions continue, the epidemic will increase, and the resurgence of other diseases," said Alvarado.

Human rights

The National Human Rights Commissioner Ramon Custodio, questioned whether "this year, there were failures in handling the epidemic by health authorities to control the spread of the mosquito Aedes aegypti.

"We did not know the spread of vector control and that we should leave the lesson for next year," he said.

According to the ombudsman, for any attack of fever, of which one has no explanation, it is advisable to seek assistance immediately.

33.628 Health confirms affected by the classical variant so far this year 1025 and the haemorrhagic patients.

The official deaths, according to the Ministry of Health, are 33

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Retired secretary, new dengue fatality
TEGUCIGALPA - The deadly dengue virus had claimed another victim in the capital, this time the unfortunate was a retired secretary who worked for several years in the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sports, who died in the Social Security Institute (IHSS .)

This is Dora Maria Varela de Portillo, who lived with her husband and children in Residencial La Ca?ada in this city.

Relatives of the deceased said that the medical cause of death stated as a complication of anemia caused by dengue hemorrhagic fever.


Reported that about eight days before his death, Varela presented a severe abdominal pain and a fever for which he was taken to a private hospital.


"We thought it was appendicitis," he told TIME a relative of the victim, whose name is reserved by personal request, who said that after carrying out various chemical tests, doctors ruled out this condition.


Also, it was learned that in mid-last week, the former public employee still had pain and fever, among other symptoms of dengue, for which he was taken to Social Security.


In this hospital would have been diagnosed with dengue fever, however Varela was not hospitalized immediately because "the platelets were 213 000," expressed the relatives.


They added that despite following all medical recommendations, the clinical picture of Mrs. Dora Maria worse, so last Saturday was admitted to IHSS with dengue hemorrhagic fever.


After four days of staying admitted to the medical center, dengue claimed the life of Dora Portillo early yesterday morning in that specialty hospital.


The remains of the former Culture Secretary were buried yesterday afternoon in St. Michael Cemetery in the village of Las Casitas Comayag?ela.

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33 is the number of deaths certified by health authorities because of hemorrhagic dengue nationwide.

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Dengue Fever Claims 43 Lives in Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA ? Ten more Hondurans died of hemorrhagic dengue fever during the past two weeks, bringing to 43 the number of people killed by the disease this year in the Central American country, authorities said Friday.

This year?s dengue outbreak has been the deadliest in the nation?s history, Health Minister Arturo Benda?a told reporters...

...Honduras has seen 1,025 cases of hemorrhagic dengue and 33,628 cases of non-lethal classic dengue so far in 2010, according to Health Ministry figures.

A dozen Hondurans died of hemorrhagic dengue fever in all of 2009...

 

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Luis Javier Ferrera, 17, after reporting dengue D, was transferred from the health center to hospital Alonso Suazo School.

The wave of pain that has been commissioned to mark the Aedes aegypti in the country still does not decline.

Three more lives were lost in the final hours because of the deadly virus, an amount according to doctors at the emergency room of Internal Medicine (EMI) of the hospital school will continue to rise.

And is that they are 11 seriously ill patients who remain in the room of EMI, some of which failed to win the battle against dengue, as Manfredo Turcios, head of the room.

Among the new lethal victims are two adults and one child.

According to the report of the medical center, one of the dead is Fredy Rivera Caceres, 12, who lives in Colonia Kennedy.

The patient was admitted to the Maternal and Child on July 16 in critical condition, a situation that remained hospitalized until his dying brought him to death around 8:30 pm on Thursday.

The other victim is Martina Munguia, 28, who was moved from the San Francisco community in Olancho, on Monday and died at 2:00 yesterday morning.

Teacher dies

The mourning also arrived at the private institute Shemaya, after one of the teachers who taught the English class died in one of the rooms of the National Heart and Lung Institute (INC).

The record indicates that the teacher was hospitalized with dengue fever, but then compounded up to dengue hemorrhagic fever.

According to the epidemiological report of the week number 29, which runs from 18 to 24 July, the increase in deaths from the disease has soared by more than 1,400 percent.

This is because in 2009 to date had confirmed only three deaths from the disease, while this year the figure is 43.

The deaths resulted from the departments of Francisco Morazan, Gracias a Dios, Intibuc?, Olancho, El Paraiso, Choluteca, Cortes and Atlantida.

The classic dengue cases also show an increase of over 700 percent compared to 2009.

The total number of cases of dengue fever until last week was 33.628.

Dengue hemorrhagic fever, which shows an increase of over 1,600 per cent compared to last year, a total 1,025 confirmed cases.

Suspected Cases

Suspected cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever to date in 2009 were 418 patients, an amount that this year is 7.008 patients.

Arturo Bendana, Health Minister in the last hours traveled to Guatemala, and he will hold meetings with the minister of this country and the representative of El Salvador.

The purpose of the meeting is to create a common front to combat the mosquito Aedes aegypti, as the threat of vector is a regional level.

Preventive actions at the national Health

The struggle to combat dengue remains a national level.

Health authorities have reported that some 499.000 houses have been abatizadas to date through domiliciarias visits from house to house. Through the manual spraying and vehicle has been involved about 500,000 homes across the country.

According to the report are 51 municipalities, 298 available to the country, which have the highest presence of the mosquito Aedes aegypti.

The departments with the most cases of dengue are Francisco Morazan, Atl?ntida, El Para?so, Choluteca, Cortes and Olancho.
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Saturday, August 7, 2010 23:44

Dengue takes the lives of three young
The new victims were two girls, one of whom was pregnant and a young man. The three were 21 years old

Dengue hemorrhagic TEGUCIGALPA killed two girls, one of them pregnant, and a young man in the early hours of yesterday at the Hospital School as a result of complications suffered by dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Nohemi Reyes Lizeth Carrasco (21), Amparo Navarro Keyla Ramirez (21) and Edwin Garcia Benitez (21) died in the emergency room of Internal Medicine between dawn yesterday and 7: 00 am.

The deaths from dengue hemorrhagic fever in the School Hospital were recorded mostly in this area because, according to doctors, have reached an advanced stage of the disease.

According to the report Nohem? Lizeth young doctor entered the hospital at around 11: 00 am on Friday from his home in Colonia Las Torres de Comayag?ela.

She was so delicate in his health that was alive only 14 hours since his death occurred at 2: 40 am. The other girl is dead AmparoNavarro Keyla Ramirez (21), allegedly for dengue, who was in gestation.


She came to hospital with fever and pains capital on Wednesday August 4 traveling from his home in Colonia New Capital Comayag?ela.

According to the minutes of death, the girl had multiple organ failure by the disease, according to room staff.

Tragic loss
While the young Edwin Garcia family mourned his death because he was a person who had much to give to their relatives and the country because it was a great worker, they said.

The boy's foster father, Jorge Vasquez, said the two worked in a family business called Studio Three, who put drywall. He said Friday he was admitted to Hospital Escuela.

He began headache and body, but it was here (in hospital) that gave the bleeding, Vasquez explained very woebegone because it was his eldest son.

Co-workers, friends and family of the boy were shocked, especially his mother, Blanca Estela Garc?a Benitez, who mourned his departure because his eldest son was four he fathered.

His remains were brought to the colony La Era of this city, to be veiled and then taking them to his home town, Guardianship, La Paz, where he will be buried this day.

FEAR
Panic seizes the patients on arrival at the emergency room of the Hospital School to observe the large number of sick and they ask their relatives to go to another hospital by fear of death not being treated or neglected.

In recent days in the Hospital Escuela allegedly died from dengue hemorrhagic fever at least seven people.

IVAN ROSALES
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Re: Honduras: 2010 Dengue Cases

Re: Honduras: 2010 Dengue Cases

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Dengue haemorrhagic fever takes six lives in the country
The deaths of five youths and one adult were reported over the weekend in the Hospital School
08/08/1910 - Updated: 08/09/1910 3:09 a.m. - Writing: redaccion@laprensa.hn

San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Six people joined the long list of victims of Aedes aegypti during the weekend in the capital.

Three died on Saturday and were identified as Edwin Ventura, 20, Nohemi Lizeth Reyes, 21, who lives in Colonia Las Torres, and Keila Amparo Navarro, 21, who lived in the New Capital.

In the Teaching Hospital, three people lost their fight yesterday against dengue.

This is Juan Ramon Banegas, 46, of Tegucigalpa, Bardales Nohemi Perez, 21, transferred to hospital from the town of Alubar?n, and Jessica Michell Soliman, barely 15 years old, residing in this city.

Roxana Araujo, director of the National Dengue Program, said all deaths will be certified to verify whether they were caused by hemorrhagic variant.

Dramatic rise

Up to Epidemiological Week No. 29, the Health Ministry had confirmed the deaths of 43 people, but in recent days have reported the deaths of at least ten patients, which would be certified in the coming days.

Araujo said that the latest statistics, for Epidemiological Week No. 30 would be released this morning. Latest official figures were recorded 33.628 cases of dengue fever and about 7.008 cases of suspected hemorrhagic. Therefore, the fight against dengue is intensifying every day. Over the weekend, the health authorities continued the program abatizaci?n and spraying in 20 colonies of the capital.

Efforts will focus on areas where dengue patients are reported and confirmed.

Araujo asked the public to take precautionary measures to prevent further deaths.

The worst is yet to come with the arrival of winter.

It is predicted that as the months pass, the rains continue more constant and intense, thereby facilitating the spread of mosquito breeding sites.

"Therefore, people must be aware and respect the cleanliness and hygiene measures to prevent dengue continue to claim lives," he advised Araujo.

The doctor said that in some neighborhoods there are a lot of collaboration, but "we are having trouble because other people are attacking the technicians when they get to speak their homes."

Material guaranteed

The administrator of the Secretar?a de Salud, Moises Torres, said that this institution has the necessary equipment and the Abbe required to cope with the winter rains.

Torres recently said they were going to buy two shipments of Abbe, one of 65,000 and another 50,000 kilos, which would work until January next year.

In the emergency facing the health authorities, the Lions Club of Tegucigalpa enabled an emergency room to provide health care for people affected by dengue. That means that every day more institutions join the fight against this disease, which in some way contribute to the prevention of deaths.

Soptravi, Armed Forces, Mayor, Hondutel and several private organizations and NGOs also contribute to this fight against the disease that every day is becoming more lives.

International experts arrive in the country to boost fight against malaria

Tegucigalpa. Amid the epidemic of dengue, the authorities of the Ministry of Health began a new struggle against the Anopheles mosquito, carrier of malaria. The goal is 50 percent decline in malaria cases in the next 12 months. To achieve the reduction in cases and deaths from the disease, health authorities have requested the cooperation of international experts.

The new shares ranging from the identification of the types of vectors circulating in areas with higher rates of infestation to the analysis of the symptoms of the sick.

Nahum Ortega, head of vector-borne diseases, said that throughout the country has identified the presence of three of the four serotypes of vector. "With support from three Colombian experts have been trained in environmental health technicians and entomologists," said Ortega. The Pan American Health Organization, PAHO, formed a team of Colombian and Jose Pablo Escobar, Liliana Santacoloma National Institute of Health and Silvia D?az, representative of the Public Health Laboratory Choc?. It also has the support of Tamara Mancero, Norma Padilla OPS Honduras and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention U.S.. Olancho, Islas de la Bahia, Yoro, Colon and Atlantida departments are considered vulnerable by the presence of the Anopheles mosquito. So far this year there have been more than three thousand cases of the disease.

In the area of the Mosquito, seven people have died from the disease this year. However, these deaths have not been certified by Health.
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Re: Honduras: 2010 Dengue Cases

Re: Honduras: 2010 Dengue Cases

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43 deaths rise
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TEGUCIGALPA .- The official figures of deaths due to dengue rise to 43 nationwide and 27 in the Central District Municipality.
Tomas Guevara
The National Certification Commission Dengue (NCCD) of the Ministry of Health reported that more than 10 deaths had been confirmed, however yesterday the Public Health Epidemiology, Tomas Guevara, the reaffirmed.

Of the ten deaths, nine correspond to the capital, while cases of classic dengue and hemorrhagic reach 39.618 and 1.099 at the national level.

The Head of Epidemiological Surveillance of Public Health, Thomas Guevara, reported yesterday that the first place is occupied incidence of Tegucigalpa, more than 60 percent, followed by San Pedro Sula to 12.

"We reconfirmed ten new deaths from dengue hemorrhagic fever and of these, nine occurred in the Central District and one in El Progreso, Yoro, with making a total of 43 national and it's unfortunate that 50 percent of deaths were School Hospital, "said Guevara.

The official said so far, eight thousand people with dengue symptoms have been hospitalized in public health centers in the country, most of the variant is serotype two, the most deadly.


Of the 43 deaths from dengue in the country, 27 were in the capital.
"The incidence of cases in the Central District in the epidemiological week 29 to number 30, is maintained, but in San Pedro Sula, has grown by 12 percent in the last two weeks.

Guevara said that the categories of dengue have evolved and that is prevailing, the two serotype, which has become aggressive and possibly people do not come in time to health services.

For its part, the infectious disease specialist at the Hospital School, Tito Alvarado, said that some people may have this disease, simultaneously with the influenza A (H2N2) and this gets even more dangerous. "Right now there are multiple viruses circulating, including the A (H1N1) and A (H3N2), at present, apart from dengue, influenza is, we have demonstrated clinically in the hospital and private hospitals," said . The recommendation is that people begin to suffer from these symptoms, do not delay in going to hospitals also are alert to doctors who treat these problems in that not only do studies of the hemorrhagic variant patients and do not neglect the influenza

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Honduras: 2010 Dengue Cases

Re: Honduras: 2010 Dengue Cases

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A rise 55 dengue deaths certified by
National August 13, 2010
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TEGUCIGALPA .- A dozen deaths were confirmed yesterday by the National Commission on Certification of Dengue (NCCD) for the last week, so the figures rise to 55 so far this year across the country level.


The NCCD accelerated the certification of persons who have died in the Hospital Emergency School.
NCCD's paper indicates that "have confirmed 12 deaths from dengue hemorrhagic fever in its various categories and collected from public and private healthcare institutions across the country."

According to the report, the NDCC meeting on Wednesday and Thursday in the offices of the National Virology Laboratory as a meaning to evacuate the arrears of deaths and cases of classic and hemorrhagic accumulated since last July but was able to certify a dozen deaths.

To date, health authorities officially registered common dengue 39.618, 1.099 of bleeding and 43 deaths, but with 12 new certified deaths between Wednesday and Thursday, the figure rose to 55.

All these new certifications will be made official on Monday at a conference of the Ministry of Health, as well as the updating of cases of classic dengue and hemorrhagic fever.


The studies for certification of dengue virology laboratories are coming more quickly.
According to the NDCC, the majority of deaths that certificate corresponds to the Central District Municipality, however remain to be about 20 suspicious deaths which occurred recently in the Hospital School, Social Security Institute (IHSS) and other regional public health centers and private .

It also specifies that the criteria for certifying deaths remain sorted by the World Health Organization (WHO) under the epidemiologic parameters, ie the medical record dictating doctors at the hospital where the patient was treated .

Health authorities are of the view that cases of dengue fever are lower, but those are kept bleeding, and are presented with greater severity.
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Re: Honduras: 2010 Dengue Cases

Re: Honduras: 2010 Dengue Cases

UNICEF joins efforts to combat deadly dengue fever outbreak in Honduras

Mosquito spreads fever in Honduras

13 August 2010 ? The United Nations Children?s Fund (UNICEF) is helping authorities in Honduras try to curb the spread of the local mosquito population as a deadly outbreak of dengue haemorrhagic fever sweeps the Central American country.

At least 33 Hondurans have died and more than 1,000 others have needed intensive care in hospital as a result of the outbreak, which coincides with the arrival of the rainy season. In total, at least 33,000 confirmed cases of the disease have been recorded so far this year.

UNICEF reported yesterday that it has provided Honduras with four thermal foggers, a type of industrial equipment that will be used to spray mosquitoes to cut short their life cycle.

The agency is also working with authorities on a public awareness campaign to encourage Hondurans to eliminate potential breeding grounds for the mosquitoes, such as water-filled containers. One part of the campaign is a project focused on teaching schoolchildren about prevention strategies.

?The most effective way to prevent dengue is to eliminate breeding sites before the mosquito can be created,? said Javier Rodriguez, a health and nutrition specialist for UNICEF.

?The eggs may settle on the walls of a water container and stay there a year. If they fall into the water, which is more probably during the rainy season, it is easy for the larva to take 10 days to become a mosquito.?

Dengue fever, a flu-like illness spread by mosquitoes, often emerges when the insects are able to breed in large numbers in artificial containers and improperly managed garbage, and the virus spreads through the bite of the female of the species. Sufferers may report only mild symptoms and may not realize they have the disease. Aside from joint pain, they may experience rashes, nausea and headaches. But, as in the current outbreak in Honduras, some also suffer the more serious and often fatal form known as dengue haemorrhagic fever, which causes internal bleeding and circulatory failure.

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