David Gernant, a 74-year-old tourist, former judge of the state of Oregon, United States, died of malaria at the Fernandez Hospital in the city of Buenos Aires.
The man was rushed to the Buenos Aires police station and died a few minutes later. As confirmed to Clarín by the Ministry of Health of the City, the retired judge was treated at the Fernández on January 7. He was returning from Ushuaia, but previously passed through several countries, so there is no data yet on where he contracted the disease.
"We don't know where she got it (malaria) because she was in different destinations, like Istanbul, India, Ethiopia. He arrived at the police station and half an hour later he died," they told this newspaperfrom the Fernandez.
The U.S. Embassy and Consulate are closely monitoring the death.
According to the National Ministry of Health, malaria, also known as malaria, "is a disease that can be fatal and is transmitted by the bite of the mosquito of the genus Anopheles." This mosquito is present in our country in some regions of Salta, Jujuy and Misiones and in several countries in America, Asia and Africa.
Symptoms are mainly fever, chills, malaise, and headache. There are different treatment schemes depending on the type of parasite that caused the disease.
Prevention, if you travel to areas where malaria is circulating, is to protect yourself with repellent and wear long sleeves and pants that cover up to the ankles, to avoid being bitten by this mosquito.
The World Health Organization (WHO) certified Argentina in May 2019 as a malaria-free country. There have been no autochthonous cases since 2011. The last outbreak recorded in the country was in the province of Misiones in 2007.
Developing news
ACE