2023-11-16 00:30:00
For this reason, the Province, along with the rest of the country, will apply a new protocol to measure how much the cases have grown. In everyday life, in family WhatsApp groups, such as those at school, Parents warn of the frequency with which this ailment occurseven that entire families have contracted the bacteria and have had to pause their usual routine.
Sore throat and fever are two symptoms of the disease. Photo: Nicolás Galuya / Diario UNO.
So far there have been 50 serious cases of diseases caused by Streptococcus Pyogenes and epidemiological surveillance begins.
“In December 2022, an alert is given in the United Kingdom because a clone of greater virulence appears, which is M1UK and M1T1 in Denmark, which are the first to begin to see these cases and some deaths related to the disease,” explained the director of Epidemiology, Andrea Falaschi.
In August 2023, the Malbrán Institute identified this variant that could be related to the growth of cases.
Faced with this epidemiological scenario and without outbreaks having been recorded in Mendoza, according to Falaschi, Mendoza begins a task of identification and surveillance.
“What we are going to do now is a protocol of active surveillance to be attentive to mild forms. These clones behave like Covid-19, so They can be sequenced through genomic surveillance and determine if these clones are more transmissible in mild and severe forms“explained the professional.
Health called on the population to be calm
Falaschi asked the population to remain calm because doctors are trained to detect and treat tonsillitis, scarlet fever or pharyngitis.
“Invasive diseases are those that cause severe forms and are caused by skin infections and not those transmitted by pharyngitis, it can be due to a wound and that is the most common,” he clarified.
“All Streptococcus are sensitive to penicillin and are easily treatable,” he reiterated.
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The director of Epidemiology of Mendoza, Andrea Falaschi, called on the population to be calm about the Streptococcus bacteria.
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The data on Streptococcus in Mendoza and Argentina
Mendoza recorded 50 cases of invasive infections caused by the superbug, as it came to be called in medical circles. Local statistics show that there were 11 deaths. The severe forms of this condition were necrotizing fasciitis, pneumonia, meningitis and septic shock.
To take into account
The Ministry of Health highlighted that invasive infections are less frequent and rarely follow pharyngitis. Mild forms are pharyngitis and scarlet fever (a red rash on the skin).
The most common symptoms are fever, headaches, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, redness of the pharynx, tonsils, bad breath, and enlarged lymph nodes in the neck.
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