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The Ministry of Health has ruled out that the 57-year-old patient hospitalized at the Luiz Palmier Municipal Hospital, in São Gonçalo Municipality, is infected with bubonic plague. The diagnosis was made after the Central Public Health Laboratory (Lacen) rebadyzed and identified the bacterium Morganella morganni common in the environment and not causing infections in people with good immunity [19659002] Laboratory samples were collected and expected to arrive Monday at the Aggeu Magalhães Research Institute (Fiocruz Pernambuco) for further badysis and closure of the investigation. Previously, the São Gonçalo Municipal Health Department had confirmed that the patient was, even without any symptoms, contaminated with the bacterium Yersinia pesitis at the origin of bubonic plague.
The hospitalized patient improved from the condition that motivated her hospitalization, which at the beginning of the study was due to heart failure. If the suspicion of plague, which had already been excluded, would not be necessary, it had already been treated.
The health service management had already specified that the suspicion had occurred after the result of an on-site examination. The patient was admitted to the central emergency on December 22nd. Samples of oral mucosa, nasal and bad were collected, as well as a wound in the leg. With suspicion, the prefecture of the municipality sent a zoonosis control team to the boarding house to carry out an inspection of parasites and rodents.
Bubonic plague is a disease caused by contact with rodents and their fleas, which can cause high fever, chills, severe headache, lack of appetite, vomiting, confusion and red eyes. Typical of very unhealthy environments, it has three clinical forms: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague and septicemic plague.
According to the Ministry of Health, the last case of bubonic plague recorded in Brazil occurred in the state of Ceará in 2005, evolving to cure the victim
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