A 45-year-old woman died in the Rio Negro city of Bariloche after spending several days in the San Carlos Sanatorium after contracting hantavirus, official sources reported this Sunday.
This is Ana Natalia Ayala, who worked as a teacher in a kindergarten in the Andean city and had also been part of the neighborhood council of the El Frutillar neighborhood.
The School Council and managers and teachers expressed their pain at the death, as did their neighbors. “Today Natalia Ayala, a great woman, hard-working, committed and friend, passed away… sad news, my condolences to her children and their parents especially,” Betinna Fernández, a resident of the neighborhood and a neighborhood reference, said through her social networks.
From the Nahuel Huapi National Park they recalled that to avoid contagion of hantavirus they recommend entering closed places with a chinstrap (No. 95/99/100), eye protection and gloves “and ventilate it at least 30 minutes before entering.
Likewise, wet the floor with bleach diluted in nine parts of cold water, leave it to act for 30 minutes and wipe with a damp cloth to prevent the particles from dispersing.
When taking walks through natural environments, they asked to take into account “not to enter abandoned mountain buildings or shelters, stables, sheds, woodsheds, or sleep outdoors” because these are places “that are possible homes for rodents that at night They have more activity.
They also asked to “camp in designated areas, in places far from piles of firewood, near garbage or bushes with lots of vegetation,” use tents with floors and keep them closed, and place food in hermetic containers that cannot be bitten by rodents.
Hantavirus is a severe acute viral disease caused by the Hanta virus, which is transmitted by contact with the urine, saliva, and droppings of infected rodents.
The symptoms are fever, muscle, headache and abdominal pain, chills, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and in advanced cases respiratory distress.
The largest outbreak of this disease occurred at the end of 2018 with its epicenter in Epuyén, where 11 people died, there were 34 confirmed cases and 159 patients who had to be isolated.
That outbreak was declared “finished” by the Chubut health authorities in March 2019.