Asuncion, 17 feb (EFE).-the Ministry of health of Paraguay today confirmed the first death from dengue so far this year in this country, where more than 60 people lost their lives because of this disease in 2011.
The health agency reported in its weekly epidemiological bulletin death dengue a woman from Yukyty, in the city of Areguá, 30 kilometers from Asunción.
At least 313 cases of dengue fever were confirmed from January 1 until the date of a total of 1,259 notifications, of which 204 were discarded after giving negative tests and other 742 still pending confirmation of laboratory, according to the source.
The note details, in addition, that 55% of the notifications come from Asunción and surrounding cities to the capital, 11% of the Department of Concepción (North) and 9% of Alto Paraná (East), the last two in the border with Brazil.
The Ministry of Health said that of the total number of patients who have suffered from the evil this year and whose cases required hospitalization, 48% presented signs of alarm and 5% turned out to be severe dengue.
Dengue, an endemic disease in Paraguay, took 62 lives of a total of 41.953 people infected in 2011.
The disease, transmitted by the bite of the mosquito “aedes agypti” and that can be fatal in its hemorrhagic form, high fever, headache, vomiting and skin rash has as some of its symptoms. EFE
