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The Ministry of Health of Ecuador ordered the deployment of medical brigades and vaccination days in several provinces of the country where cases of people’s cough and yellow fever have been reported in recent days.
According to the Minister of Health, Édgar José Lama, epidemiological surveillance will increase in the next few days and said that both alerts are located at specific points of the South American country.
“I want to call for calm, we are not facing a national epidemic but in faced situations,” he emphasized.
Lama pointed out this Friday that 321 cases of Raine cough have been identified in the provinces of Guayas, Manabí, Pichincha and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas.
On the other hand, he said that four cases of yellow fever have been confirmed in the Amazon provinces of Morona Santiago and Zamora Chinchipe. According to Lama, yellow fever “is contained” in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
In this context, the government ordered as of May 12 the requirement of the yellow fever vaccination certificate for travelers from Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia between one and 59 years of age.
The Ministry of Health argues that this epidemiological alert for Raine cough and yellow fever has a regional cause, especially from the neighboring countries of Colombia and Peru.
last month, the Colombian government declared a health emergency throughout the country against the “active circulation” of the yellow fever virus.
While in Peru, in March, the Government reported an increase in cases of Raras cough that motivated health authorities to take measures and expand vaccination in certain areas.
To the health alerts that were lit in Ecuador, a third by leptospirosis is added after eight children died in the last days in the town of Taisha, in the Amazon province of Morona Santiago. Initially the Ministry of Health did not determine the cause of these deaths, but this Saturday he informed that they were generated by the “leptospira” bacteria that causes leptospirosis, an infection acquired through the stool or urine of certain infected animals and is transmitted to humans by water or contaminated soil or by direct contact with animals.
The Ministry of Health reported that nine rural communities are intervened and that four of them present as many cases. He added that so far 800 cares have been performed and 46 patients have presented symptoms associated with leptospirosis.
The Ecuadorian government has arranged the management of resources for immunization and outbreak control, the mobilization of the Armed Forces and the Police for the support of the security and logistics of the health personnel, and the activation of the Ministries of Education, Social Inclusion and Environment to promote control, surveillance and prevention measures.
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