A virus that comes from the same mosquito that causes dengue has already sickened more than 15,000 people.
The disease, native to Africa, has spread in a few years at breakneck speed on all four sides of the planet. It comes to El Salvador, Guatemala, Venezuela and Panama, after leaving thousands of victims in the Caribbean.
"The government of El Salvador announced an increase of more than 117 new cases of the disease known"
The government of El Salvador announced an increase of 117 more cases of the disease known as chikungunya, a situation that is complicated by the rise of people affected by dengue.
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The Minister of Health, Violeta Menjivar, said new cases of chikungunya in addition to the 200 thousand cases first identified in the northern department of San Salvador and San Vicente department.
Menjivar said the outbreak is spreading to other regions such as San Miguel, as in other municipalities of San Salvador, San Vicente and Usulutan.
He explained that no later than two weeks, the Atlanta Center in the United States, El Salvador to confirm whether the disease entered the country through the samples sent for analysis.
Meanwhile the Ministry of Health of Guatemala reported that maintains surveillance, given the risk of chikungunya fever, which proliferates in Central America and the Caribbean.
Spokesmen of the Ministry of Health indicated that since last week was an epidemiological lace formed on the border of Guatemala to El Salvador, in order to detect possible outbreaks of the virus affecting the neighboring country.
Chikungunya has alerted health authorities Central for the hundreds of cases recorded in several regions from Panama to El Salvador.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) called health authorities in the region to remain alert to the presence of evil, as in El Salvador has more than one hundred thousand patients.
Chikungunya fever, the first case was discovered in 1952 in Tanzania, especially in the current outbreak affecting Caribbean countries, which has caused at least a dozen dead in the last semester.
The evil that came to Latin America after expanding in Africa and Asia, is transmitted by the bite two mosquitoes have also transmitters of dengue, Aedes Aedes Aegyptis and Aedes albopictus.
The virus is common in Africa, Asia and some Pacific islands, authorities and reports of his presence known recently in at least 19 territories and countries of America, affecting about five thousand people, according to preliminary reports from PAHO .
There is no vaccine for chikungunya disease whose patients have fever, fatigue, headache and joint pain, nausea and rashes.
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