Dengue: they identify three common symptoms that appear less in fatal cases

The Ministry of Health provided new information on the

in the last few hours .

The data not only account for the

in the City of Buenos Aires, the

in Buenos Aires territory and the

in Santa Fe, for a total of

.

They also detail which are

in all the registered cases and

in the list.

when the outcome of the infections is death.

The most common symptom of all is

(greater than or equal to 38 degrees), which is shared by 92 percent of cases and 97 percent of fatal cases.

There is almost no variation there.

Another symptom that is repeated practically without changes, whether it is mild or severe, is

: it occurs in 3 out of 10 cases.

Then the symptoms appear in which

.

There, the Epidemiological Bulletin published weekly by the Government identified

that show

.

In two of these symptoms the usual incidence is reduced by half in fatal cases.

And in the third it shrinks but to a lesser extent.

The gaps are mainly with

, which drop by almost half when the case ends in death.

The first symptom, which is recorded in 60 percent of all cases, is reduced to 34 percent of fatal cases.

The second occurs in 51 percent of all cases and 25 percent of fatalities.

Thirdly,

, which accounts for 85 percent of cases, drops to 66 percent among fatal cases.

With another quite common symptom, on the other hand, the reverse occurs:

increases, from 26 percent in the general average to 51 percent among those who end badly.

Thrombocytopenia -low platelet level- appears in 14 percent of fatal cases.

Then a series of symptoms appear that are typical of the most serious disease.

Among the cases that ended in death, 26 percent had

, 23 percent had

, 20 percent

, 20 percent felt

, 14 percent had

, and the same proportion added

.

It should be clarified that it is always about

and averages, so each case can then present its particularities.

The Ministry of Health summarizes the

when there is fever accompanied by one or more of these symptoms: pain behind the eyes;

upside down;

muscle and joints;

nausea and vomiting;

intense tiredness;

appearance of spots on the skin and itching;

bleeding nose and gums.

epidemiological alert

Another novelty in the latest Bulletin is that the portfolio led by Carla Vizzotti

on April 18 "to urge health teams to intensify clinical suspicion, identify alarm signs and adequate follow-up of cases to minimize the occurrence of severe forms of the disease".

The justification for the alert, says the document, is due to "territorial expansion,

, the most frequent clinical characteristics and the report of deceased cases in different age groups in the context of dengue outbreaks in Argentina ".

Finally, the weekly report provides another piece of information that helps to understand the

in the current dengue epidemic, which has already broken a historical record in the number of cases and deaths.

Only

of the 16 with community circulation of the virus have a predominance of serotype 1, which is less aggressive than 2. They are Santa Fe, Corrientes and Chaco.

Specimens of Aedes aegypti, dengue-transmitting mosquitoes.

Photo: Reuters

In the rest of the jurisdictions,

to a greater or lesser extent, with a monopoly of the epidemiological scenario, especially in Catamarca, Jujuy, La Rioja, Salta, Tucumán, San Luis and Santiago del Estero.

In the capital and province of Buenos Aires, meanwhile, serotype 2 accounts

of the cases.

At the national level, DENV-2 represents

and DENV-1, 16 percent.

Another important figure is the lethality registered in the country:

.

In Brazil it is 0.02;

in Bolivia, 0.05 and in Peru, 0.09.

Despite the fact that the Argentine outbreak is the worst in history, the numbers of infections per 100,000 inhabitants would continue to be below all the countries in the region where dengue fever circulates.

The current

confirmed deaths for each Argentine province so far - it differs from the national part that includes notifications up to April 10 - is distributed as follows: Salta (10), Tucumán (9), Jujuy (8), Santa Fe (8), Santiago del Estero (4), Córdoba (2), City of Buenos Aires (3), Buenos Aires (2), Entre Ríos (1) and Corrientes (1).

Likewise, the cases already exceed 65 thousand.

PS

look also

Dengue: science discovered a trick of the Aedes aegypti mosquito to bite more and more

He is an Olympic sailor and denounces that there are 20 tons of garbage on a beach in Península Valdés that nobody cleans