A loose check would facilitate more cases of malaria, alert – Printed Edition

SAN IGNACIO, Misiones (Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Correspondent). With the detection of two cases of malaria imported into this Ignatian community, Amado Aquino badured that there is no risk of spread of the disease in the district or department because the Blockade work is already being done in the area where affected.

He added that our country is exposed to more cases of imported malaria since the need for work forces many compatriots to travel to the African continent for a few months and many times at airports and border crossings in the future. not asking which country they come back from. He did not inform the traveler either.

He recalls that these two cases detected in San Ignacio do not jeopardize the certification of malaria-free countries that Paraguay received last month.

For her part, Juana María Meza, head of the health education area of ​​the local hospital, noted that the mosquito known as ñati & # 39; û akua is similar At Aedes aegypti, with the difference that it does not take into account the type of water (clean or dirty), it is therefore recommended to eliminate any element that can be used as a hatchery agent. .

Anyone who has symptoms of fever, headache, or other discomfort, should visit a health office for laboratory tests to rule out any possibility of malaria

Fifth Misiones case

Amado Galeano, of Senepa, reported that from 2015 to 2018, in Misiones, five imported positive malaria cases were detected, one in Ayolas, another in San Juan, and 3 in San Ignacio. Once the presence of the disease was detected, the controls were entrusted to the Ministry of Health. After confirming the existence of malaria or the presence of vectors in the department of Misiones, the census is carried out in the area where the case was checked, and then the blocking operation begins with spraying in a radius 500 meters, twice every three months, Galeano explained.