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Laboratory badyzes of the Adolfo Lutz Institute confirmed the circulation of serotype 2 dengue virus in 19 cities in the northern and northwestern regions of the state of São Paulo. According to the State Department of Health, this virus tends to cause more clinically significant cases in patients previously infected with other serotypes. The two regions account for 60% of the cases already registered in the State, which led the Secretariat to organize a videoconference on the last day 17, alerting the municipalities of the strategies to combat Aedes aegypti and measures to take charge of them. infected people.
the coordinator of the fight against the disease file, Marcos Boulos, the state already lives a dengue epidemic, which is not as important as that of 2015, but which has as serotype 2 aggravating of the virus. "Three years ago we had a type 1 prevalence epidemic. When a new serotype of the virus appears, it tends to be potentially more serious. We have received requests for help from doctors in the Araçatuba region, as severe cases of dengue fever occur in the area and we advise physicians who receive cases to consider the possible seriousness and take the necessary measures. "
During the first semester of this month, 610 indigenous cases of the disease were confirmed in São Paulo. In January of last year, there were 888 cases. During the year 2018, dengue fever reached 13,908 people and caused 10 deaths in that state. During the great epidemic of 2015, there were 709,445 cases and 513 deaths. This year, a suspicion of dengue haemorrhagic death is being studied in São Joaquim da Barra, in the Ribeirão Preto region. The victim, a 9-year-old girl, died Sunday 20 years after being admitted to the intensive care unit. According to Boulos, it could be a case of serotype 2. "We stopped calling ourselves dengue hemorrhagic, we treated severe dengue," he explained.
In Bauru, the municipality admitted the risk of epidemic after counting 214 indigenous cases in two weeks – almost the total of last year. "This year, the city has registered serotype 2 of dengue fever, which has not happened for years, and it worries because the population is not immune to this type of virus," he said. the Minister of Health. The municipality has intensified nebulization,
Patients with symptoms filled the basic health units Monday night 21. "We want to make sure that public services are ready to provide skilled care to the patients they need" said the secretary. José Henrique Ferreira. The city of Andradina, in the Araçatuba region, has the highest number of confirmed cases this year – 299, nearly half of the state as a whole.
According to the State Department, a rapid-index survey for Aedes aegypti, conducted late last year, showed that almost all cities in both regions are at risk of dengue fever because of the high rate of infestation. of land. For every one hundred houses surveyed, four had larvae. The cities in which the dengue serotype 2 virus is circulating are Andradina, Araraquara, Barretos, Bauru, Bebedouro, Catanduva, Espírito Santo do Pinhal, Indiaporã, Ipiguá, Itajobi, Mirbadol, Pereira Barreto, Piracicaba, Pirangi, Pirangi, Ribeirão Preto, São José do Rio Preto, Uchoa and Vista Alegre do Alto
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