Peru, AMAZONAS: VICTIMS AND THOUSANDS OF INFECTED FOR DENGUE FEVER VIRUS TYPE 2

[Giuseppe]

Source: MISNA, in Italian, full text: http://www.misna.org/news.asp?a=1&IDLingua=2&id=288427 - Automatic translation

PERU
4/2/2011 9.13

AMAZON: VICTIMS AND THOUSANDS OF NEW SPECIES FOR INFECTIOUS FEVER 'dengue'

Medicine and Health, Brief

The government said the alert 'red' in the Amazonian department of Loreto, north-east for an outbreak of 'dengue', came from Brazil, which has so far caused 11 deaths - including seven children - and more than 10,000 cases of infection: has reported the Health Minister Oscar Ugarte, indicating that the strain identified in the region corresponds to a new kind of virus serotype 2 Asian-American came to Loreto with the migration of the Amazon from Manaus, capital of the Brazilian state Amazonas.

Transmitted by the mosquito 'Aedes aegypti' the 'dengue' Asian-American usually does not cause fever and headaches, especially as the bleeding, but a shock if not treated in time can lead quickly to death.

Ugarte announced that the alert has been declared a 'yellow' for the 'dengue' in another 14 of the 24 departments of Peru, the coast, the Andes and the Amazon.

Four cases of infection were counted in the capital Lima is in any case of people coming from the northern Amazon.
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[Shiloh]

Re: Peru, AMAZONAS: VICTIMS AND THOUSANDS OF INFECTED FOR DENGUE FEVER VIRUS TYPE 2

Source: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/04/peru-new-strain-of-dengue-spreads-in-the-amazon/

Peru: New Strain of Dengue Spreads in the Amazon
Written by Isabel Guerra
Translation posted 4 February 2011 ? View original post [es]

Translated by Damien Moroney

A dengue outbreak that emerged in the Peruvian Amazon region of Loreto has easily spread through several neighbouring regions [es]. On the 1st of February, four confirmed cases had been officially reported in Lima, the Peruvian capital, causing great alarm because according to medical reports, this is a new strain in the region [es], which with its great virulence has already caused havoc in neighbouring countries like Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina [es]...

 

[Tonka]

Re: Peru, AMAZONAS: VICTIMS AND THOUSANDS OF INFECTED FOR DENGUE FEVER VIRUS TYPE 2

http://noticias.universia.net.co/ci.../803846/alerta-dengue-frontera-amazonica.html
Spanish to Eng. translation

Dengue alert in the Amazon frontier
23/03/2011

Departmental Directorate of Health issued an alert Amazon epidemiological border villagers in Peru, Brazil and Colombia.
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At the time have confirmed eight cases of indigenous dengue and two possible deaths from Aedes aegypti (mosquito transmits the disease), according to biologist Antonio Alvarado, support professional Entomology Unit of the Health Department and a masters student in Amazonian Studies of the UN in Amazonia .

"Since 2009 we study the dynamics of transmission and distribution of the vector from its appearance in Leticia," said Jose Joaquin Carvajal, a biologist and graduate student from Amazon Headquarters. In a second survey for Leticia Aedes index, made in 2009 on a random basis, 272 homes were inspected and 886 tanks and six houses were found positive for Aedes aegypti.

So far in 2011, 552 homes were inspected and 1,762 shells, representing 100% of the affected neighborhoods. 43 homes were found positive for the mosquito. In Tabatinga, Brazil, a border town with Leticia, the mosquito was found in the port area during the inspection larvae in 2008 (Ministry of Saude, dengue fever control in Brazil, Estado do Amazonas) and its distribution has increased exponentially during the period 2009 -2010 .

Action Plan
At the time you activated the contingency plan and comprehensive action plan for control of dengue in Leticia, which includes the interdisciplinary approach, intersectoral and community component of surveillance, laboratory diagnosis, clinical management , sanitation average entomological surveillance and vector control, health promotion and disease prevention and strengthening of program management.

Currently, the Public Health Surveillance System (SIVIGILA) National Institute of Health (NIH) has reported 831 total cases of dengue, 780 (94%) cases of dengue common 51 (6%) of severe dengue.

The National University of Colombia in the Amazon is committed to the involvement of volunteers in education campaigns to prevent disease in Leticia.

 

[Tonka]

Re: Peru, AMAZONAS: VICTIMS AND THOUSANDS OF INFECTED FOR DENGUE FEVER VIRUS TYPE 2

http://peru21.pe/2011/12/14/impresa/dengue-causa-muerte-23-amazonia-2003091
Spanish-English translation

Dengue causes death of 23 in the Amazon
Wednesday December 14, 2011 | 2:53
So far this year have been handled more than 23 000 cases of patients infected with evil.


Dengue hemorrhagic fever is a silent but deadly wrong. Between January and November 2011 killed 27 people and produced more than 23 000 infections only in the Amazon. It has therefore been classified by the Peruvian authorities themselves as "the worst historical outbreak" of the country.

Yeni Herrera, coordinator of the Health Strategy of Vector-Borne Diseases, Ministry of Health (MoH), said that until the last week of November there had been 23.380 confirmed cases of evil in the departments of Loreto, Madre de Dios, San Martin and Ucayali (border with Brazil).

The figure is much higher than in 2010 when there were seven deaths and more than 19,000 cases of dengue.

"Therefore, control actions performed periodically in all our regions and in the Amazon that are not as, otherwise, the figures would be much more bulky," he said.

NEW GENOTYPE
Herrera explained that late last year entered the Peruvian Amazon region a new genotype of dengue hemorrhagic fever, whose symptoms include fever, abdominal pain and bleeding.

"This problem is beyond the capacity of the MoH. Population needs to do your part and never leave standing water or waste that attract the mosquito that transmits dengue, "said the official.

He recalled that the main focus on where the epidemic is in the cities of Iquitos and Yurimaguas Loreto, on the banks of the Amazon River.

"These areas are carried out periodic stock control and constant spraying to eradicate outbreaks of dengue, and not let our guard down," noted Herrera.