Health confirms yellow fever virus in Paraná after tests on dead monkeys found in Antonina | Paraná

Sesa said that she was already on alert for suspected illness, the area having a border with the state of São Paulo where twelve cases of yellow fever were reported in humans, including six deaths.

However, still according to Sesa, Paraná has no record of the disease in humans.

With the confirmation of reviews, the secretariat insists on the need to intensify the vaccine, which is available throughout the state. All persons must be vaccinated between nine months and 59 years, 11 months and 29 days and have never taken a dose of the vaccine.

The veterinarian of the Environmental Health Monitoring Center, Ivana Belmonte, warns that people do not kill monkeys for fear of the disease because they do not transmit the disease – according to the Ministry of Health , misinformation has already prompted people to commit the crime of killing monkeys in São Paulo and Rio.

Sesa remembers that animals are allies in the fight against the disease because they can report the existence of the mosquito carrying the virus.

Conservation Units closed for visits

State Conservation Units are closed for 15 days since this Thursday (24). The determination is a precaution because of suspected cases of yellow fever, according to the Paraná Environment Institute (IAP).

For ecological stations, researchers will be admitted on presentation of the yellow fever vaccination certificate. See the units that will be closed.