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SOROCABA – Two people died at the beginning of this year due to symptoms of spotted fever a disease transmitted by ticks in Maracaí (State of São Paulo). In the first case, the patient, aged 22, was admitted to the city hospital on December 31 and transferred the same day to the hospital of Marília hospitals, in the same area. Death occurred on Tuesday 1st. In the other case, the victim, a 69-year-old man, was transferred to Assis Regional Hospital and died on Wednesday 2
. ready the examinations of the samples sent to Instituto Adolfo Lutz. Epidemiological surveillance checks whether the victims were in areas inhabited by the capybaras, a mammal host of the tick.
According to data from the State Department of Health, last year, until the second week of December, 79 cases of spotted fever were confirmed in São Paulo, of which 40 have died. In fact, there were 65 cases and 32 deaths in 2017.
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