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A two-year-old child and eight other people were victims of bat attacks in the community of New Jerusalem located in a riparian area, about 80 km from Manaus. After the case, Vigilance in Health technicians conducted a preventive action in the region.
Of those attacked, seven were in the same house. Among them, mother and child needed treatment in Manaus and continue to observe. Adriana Elias, Municipal Secretary for Health, commented on the work in the region.
"Semsa was deployed and immediately dispatched the epidemiological surveillance team to investigate and follow-up on the case, confirming the aggression perpetrated on the child and against the mother at home on the 13th. of the mother, the child presented fever and abdominal pain the next day.The two were brought to Manaus and received serum and a vaccination at the Foundation for Tropical Medicine Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado in Manaus, "said the secretary.
According to the epidemiological survey, in addition to the mother and the child, five other family members were badaulted in the same house and two others in the same community, for a total of nine people beaten by bats.
Health professionals brought this Saturday (19) to Manaus five other family members attacked to receive the vaccine, serum or immunoglobulin.
To date, none of them has presented symptoms of human rabies, considered as cases of rabies treatment due to an attack of wild animals .
On Tuesday (22), the Department of Environmental and Epidemiological Monitoring of Semsa (Devae) will send another team of technicians to identify the blood-sucking bat species that caused the aggression and why changes in the behavior of animals.
According to the nurse Marinélia Ferreira, director of Devae, the work will be done overnight, because it involves the capture of bats for badysis and application of vampiricida paste to eliminate the remaining colonies .
"We believe that environmental causes may have caused a change in behavior of bats, which normally feed on the blood of animals such as horses, livestock, chickens, dogs and cats. Human blood is the last option to feed these people, "says Marinella.
All bats can carry the rabies virus. For transmission to occur, the contact of saliva with blood is necessary. Therefore, bats that sting animals are the main emitters.
Rabies is an acute viral infectious disease that affects mammals, including humans. It is a zoonosis, that is to say that it is a disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans and is characterized by progressive and acute, fatal encephalitis in about 100% of cases.
It is transmitted to humans by the saliva of infected animals, mainly by sting, but also by scraping and / or licking these animals. Annual vaccination of dogs and cats is an effective measure of rabies prevention in these animals and, therefore, human rabies.
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