The Epidemiology manager of the Santa Cruz Governorate, Carlos Hurtado, reported that these people presented fever. After 19 years, the previous week in Puerto Suárez a patient was diagnosed with this disease, who has a reserved prognosis.
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In Santa Cruz, the health authorities reported that samples were taken from five people in the municipality of Puerto Suárez to find out if they have yellow fever.
The Epidemiology manager of the Santa Cruz Governorate, Carlos Hurtado, reported that these patients presented fever and live in the same municipality where a person with this disease was diagnosed at the end of March. “We are going to investigate if these patients have yellow fever or another disease,” Hurtado pointed out.
A week ago in the municipality of Puerto Suárez, border with Brazil, a 17-year-old boy was diagnosed with yellow fever. This case is identified after 19 years since not a single patient with this disease had been confirmed in Bolivia.
The patient’s condition is critical
This ThursdayHurtado regretted that the patient is still in critical condition and is not responding to treatment: more than 20 units of blood have been transferred, but it shows no improvement.
Vaccination against yellow fever is done once in a lifetime. However, given the detection of this case in Santa Cruz, Hurtado indicated that vaccination reinforcements will be applied in Puerto Suárez, in addition carries out a rake in search of people who present symptoms of this disease.
Yellow fever is a disease transmitted by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoamong the symptoms are: fever and jaundice (yellowing of the eyes and skin).
The authorities regret that this disease is highly lethal and that they have data that shows that every five patients out of 10 fail to overcome it.
Three days ago, the Minister of Health and Sport, Jeyson Auza reported the second case of this disease in the countrythe latter was diagnosed in the municipality of San Borja in Beni.
