Today Departmental Health Secretariat and the University of Quindio conducted training as a measure of disease surveillance.
Health agencies Quindio began work early warning to prevent any outbreak of a new virus causing fever called Chikungunya, Chkv.
The aim is that the various entities and individuals in the sector, in addition to the wider community to take action to avoid infection and, if they occur, know how to recognize it and what to do.
"Given the progression of indigenous transmission of this disease in America, and considering that in the country there is a high infestation of the two vectors that transmit the disease-the same mosquitoes that cause yellow fever and dengue: Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus the intensification of commercial activities, the greater frequency of travel and tourism growth with different Caribbean countries, they are conditions of vulnerability and responsiveness to the introduction of the virus in any area of the country, "he said from the ministry of Health to put aware of the situation at all regional offices.
For this reason the departmental secretary of Health and the University of Quindio launched informational and preventive plans and morning and at 10:00 am he will conduct a training on the subject, on the third floor of the Faculty of Medicine institution of higher education.
"For this activity we are calling on doctors, nurses, bacteriologists, and nursing assistants to know more about the virus," he said from the governmental entity.
Chikungunya fever
It is a disease caused by an alphavirus of the family Togaviridae transmitted by mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. The incubation period is 3-7 days and viremia lasts between 5 to 6 days even up to 10 days-after the presentation of fever.
"The typical clinical signs of the disease are fever, severe arthralgia or arthritis of acute onset may persist for weeks or months. General complications include myocarditis, hepatitis, pneumonia, renal failure and ocular or neurological disorders. Some infected individuals may be asymptomatic, or present boxes with moderate symptoms. This will constitute a challenge in the differential diagnosis in tropical areas where others are equally prevalent infectious conditions such as dengue, "explained from the ministry.
Other modes of transmission of the disease occur by application of blood products and / or mother to child transmission, particularly during the last week of gestation. The fatality rate can reach 10.6% of cases in patients with comorbidities, people over 85 years and with a history of alcohol abuse, which have a higher risk of dying from the disease.
Diagnosis and treatment
The diagnosis is clinical, laboratory. In 98% of cases the treatment is ambulatory. As the pains are intense, should rest in bed. For pain and fever are advised to take acetaminophen. Fever and ambient heat makes the body lose water, so it is necessary to drink plenty of fluids among 2-3 liters per day for adults and children continuously at will. It is recommended to consume water, coconut water, soups, juices, oral rehydration solution to prevent dehydration which can lead to complications.
The virus in Colombia
Since the first indigenous cases of Chikungunya infection were identified on the island of Saint Martin, France, in November 2013, to date, five other territories in the region of the Americas and the Caribbean, indigenous transmission have been reported.
In Colombia, the virology laboratory of the National Institute of Health processed sera for diagnosis of virus Chkv previously tested negative for dengue.
To date there is no laboratory evidence of indigenous circulation, or imported cases of the epidemic in Colombia.
Have been recently reported two suspected patients from areas with indigenous transmission, which were referred to Medellin and Bogota and later discarded as infected.
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