The Ministry of Health reported that there is an increase in diagnoses referring to respiratory infections in Argentina and particularly in Tierra del Fuego. In the latest Epidemiological Bulletin, the national health portfolio makes a section on the increase in respiratory diseases in epidemiological week 21 of this year, comparing it with the same week in 2023, which reveals a 26.5% increase in respiratory diseases in the province.
Thus, while in week 21 of 2023, 1,275 cases had been reported, in the same week of 2024, 1,736 were reported. Of this last number, 741 cases are from Rio Grande, 341 from Tolhuin and 654 from Ushuaia.
The same report details that influenza-type respiratory diseases (ETI) in Tierra del Fuego account for almost 50% of respiratory notifications in week 21. Respiratory notifications in Rio Grande are due to 72% of ETI and in Ushuaia 31.8%. %. In Tolhuin, 40.7% of the total grouped respiratory notifications are also due to this cause.
In the country
The Ministry of Health reported that there is an increase in diagnoses referring to respiratory infections in Argentina. “The studies reported by the respiratory virus network show an increase in influenza detections in recent weeks; with an increase from 384 cases in week 20 (mid-May) to 1,248 in week 22 (end of May). In addition, there is a slight increase in detections of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), with more than 300 cases registered in the last three weeks. In week 22 of 2024, in addition, circulation of SARS-CoV-2, parainfluenza, adenovirus and metapneumovirus is detected,” they detailed in the Epidemiological Bulletin.
“Influenza cases have shown an upward trend since week 16 (mid-April), exceeding 200 weekly cases in the last 4 weeks. Furthermore, starting from week 16, an increase in RSV detections in boarding schools has been recorded. SARS-CoV-2 cases remain at low levels,” they added.
And they reported that in the first 23 weeks of 2024 “the death of 41 people diagnosed with influenza was reported.” “In the Ambulatory Monitoring Units there has been an increase in Influenza cases in the last 8 weeks, with 62 positive cases among the 120 samples studied in the last week. In addition, in week 23 (early June), 6 were registered. detections of SARS-CoV-2 among the 667 samples analyzed by molecular technique. No positive cases for RSV were detected in the last week,” they added.
