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The Eldorado Municipal Health Service confirmed on Thursday (15) that three people died this year because of yellow fever in the municipality of Ribeira Valley in southern São Paulo. The deaths are the first by yellow fever confirmed this year in the state. According to the results of the Adolfo Lutz Institute, four other hospitalized people with symptoms are also infected with the virus.
To date, nine cases have been confirmed in this state, including four in Eldorado, four out of four. Pariquera-Açu and one in Jacupiranga, according to the State Department of Health. In 2018, São Paulo had 503 confirmed cases and 176 deaths as a result of the disease. reported that seven cases of the disease had been confirmed in the municipality
According to the bulletin, it is about a 36-year-old man who died on the 1st, of a 24-year-old man who died the 10 and 60 years old. , deceased last Sunday, at the age of thirteen. Of the four people with the confirmed illness, three are hospitalized. A 34-year-old woman, also hospitalized, was treated and was discharged
According to epidemiological surveillance, all cases of yellow fever infection occurred in rural areas. Only the woman who had high arrears in the urban area, but presented the symptoms after traveling to rural areas. Immunization in the municipality has been intensified since suspicious cases were reported. In the countryside, the teams offer the vaccine from house to house. According to the municipality, vaccination coverage is 60%, which is in the regional average.
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