After learning of the death of a man infected with Argentine hemorrhagic fever, the director of municipal Epidemiology, Matías Lahitte, issued his recommendation to the population to be inoculated preventively, especially those who work in rural areas, although also He highlighted that there have been cases of infected people from the urban and peri-urban areas.
It should be noted that there were not a considerable number of officially diagnosed cases in the last year: there were two, one of them who died last Monday, a native of the town of Funes. It was in 2022 that an alert was issued due to a growth in cases of Argentine hemorrhagic fever in endemic areas, “with eight infections, of which two died.”
Argentine hemorrhagic fever is an endemic disease only in three provinces: Santa Fe, Buenos Aires and La Pampa. And although “it is usually transmitted by rodents in the countryside, “We have had cases in urban and peri-urban areas”indicated infectologist Lahitte.
The epidemiological portfolio official He then stressed that “it is important to vaccinate the population because Santa Fe is an endemic area.”, and then detailed that “the vaccine is included in the national calendar and is free, and can be found in public centers.” And he explained that it is plasma from a person who had this disease, to generate antibodies.
The vaccine is Candid #1, which is indicated for people from 15 years of age to 65, and is in the national vaccination schedule, for inoculation only once in a lifetime. “The content comes out of a multidose bottle, so when one bottle is opened, approximately 10 people must be vaccinated,” Lahitte highlighted.
He also added that“In the presence of symptoms and clinical suspicion of a condition compatible with FHA, it is important to carry out the determination in the provincial reference laboratory, which is Cemar, to perform the extraction.”
Finally, he highlighted that for those who already have a diagnosis of FHA, “there is also the convalescent plasma (which is the plasma of a person who had the disease, to generate antibodies), to seek to reduce mortality from this virus.”
2024-01-02 21:00:00
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