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The State Department of Health included Piracicaba (SP) in the list of cities in which the circulating dengue virus is circulating, a form of the disease that could be more serious and infect patients who already had the other serotypes. According to the town hall, only two of the 13 dengue cases confirmed in 2018 were of this type.
The Secretary of State stated that serotype 2 "tends to clinically cause more severe dengue cases in patients previously infected with other serotypes". In addition to Piracicaba, 18 other cities have viral circulation.
Sebastião Amaral Campos, coordinator of the Municipal Plan to Combat Aedes de Piracicaba, says that the municipality has a rigorous program to fight the disease and that it has infrastructure facilities. urban sanitation avoiding all diseases related to water treatment. and wastewater.
Piracicaba appears in the list of cities in the state of São Paulo where serotype 2 of dengue is circulating, which is perhaps more serious – Photo: Divulgação / Secretaria de Saúde
For Campos, the problem facing epidemics lies in the culture of the population, because people would not practice "what they know to guarantee the quality of life "
Amaury Lelis Dal Fabbro, infectious disease doctor at the University of São Paulo, explained that even though the disease forms have the same symptoms, serotype 2 can lead to complications such as high blood pressure. Bleeding, shock and death.
"Anyone with a certain serotype is immune to this serotype, but remains sensitive to others." Anyone who has never had dengue fever can catch dengue 2 the first time, "said Fabbro in an interview with EPTV .
The Municipal Department of Health states that it There has been a reduction in the number of cases of dengue between 2017 and 2018. In 2017, 63 confirmed cases were recorded, while last year, 13 cases were serotype 2.
indicates that the secretary of State understood that despite "very few cases of serotype 2 in the commune, this is enough to know that serotype 2 is circulating and that the alert is triggered."
"It is worth noting that the municipality is in a satisfactory situation with regard to the monitoring of dengue cases in the state of São Paulo, according to the rapid survey on the rates of infestation carried out by Aedes aegypti (LIRAa ) in 2018 ", indicates City Hall., in footnote.
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