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Manaus / AM – The Manau Municipality monitors the situation in the New Jerusalem community in Minpidiaú, a riparian area of the city, where cases of badault by blood-sucking bats have been reported . A team of eight health surveillance technicians on Saturday conducted a preventive action in the locality, during which nine victims were found, including seven in the same house.
Adriana Elias, Municipal Secretary for Health, explains that the action was organized after the Strategic Information Center on Health Surveillance of Amazonas (CIEVS / AM) to transmit the Information of a possible case of aggression in a two year old child residing in this community.
"Semsa was immediately activated and seconded, the epidemiological surveillance team to investigate and follow up the case, confirming the badault of the child and the mother by bat, January 13 at home According to reports from the mother, the child presented, the next day, fever and abdominal pain.According to the epidemiological investigation, in addition to the mother and the child, five other members of the family were sent to the city of Manaus, where they were sent to Manaus where they received serum and vaccination at the Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado Tropical Medicine Foundation in Manaus. "
minted in the same house and two other people from the same community, a total of nine people beaten by bats. Health professionals brought yesterday (Saturday) to Manaus plus five family members attacked to receive the vaccine, as well as serum or immunoglobulin.
Identification
On Tuesday (22), the Department of Environmental and Epidemiological Monitoring (Department of Environmental and Epidemiological Surveillance) Devae) will send another team of technicians from the Center for Epidemiological Surveillance and Zoonoses Control ( CCZ), as well as technicians from the Foundation for Health Surveillance (FVS), to identify the hematophagous bat species at the origin of the badaults
According to the director of Devae, Nurse Marinelia Ferreira, the work will be carried out overnight, as it involves the capture of bats for badysis and application of vampiricida paste for the removal of the remaining colonies. "We believe that environmental causes may have caused a change in the behavior of bats, which normally feed on the blood of animals such as horses, cattle, chickens, dogs, and cats."
Prevention
All bats may carry rabies virus, and for transmission to occur, it is necessary for saliva to come into contact with the blood, and therefore bats, which bite animals , are the main emitters.
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