Replace the Case is another terrible virus

On the European powers coming next deadly disease comes from the African continent. Light began to spread the virus Chikungunya.

New deadly fever Chikungunya has already begun to spread in the countries of Central America. Significant growth in the number of cases of infection with the dangerous virus is celebrated in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Now the most difficult situation developed in El Salvador. From the end of may is here already identified 149 cases of the inhabitants of our planet's fever.

Now more than 71 thousand doctors suspect the dangerous virus infection, inform п?п?я?я?п?.Ru. About the difficult situation in the countries of Central America, said the Deputy Minister of health of El Salvador Eduardo Espinosa. The expert reports that the vectors are mosquitoes. To date, the government of El Salvador are energetic struggle against these insects.

Previously about the first infected the latest fever have been reported and in Nicaragua. There from the beginning of July registered more than 43 cases of virus infection. In various districts fumigation of areas of possible clusters of mosquito populations is recommended to strictly comply with the measures to ensure sanitary safety.

In Costa Rica in the current quarter identified 21 cases of illness fever Chikungunya. Only 1 of the patients contracted the virus in areas of the Republic, and the rest - while traveling in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Haiti.

New exotic fever no less dangerous than Ebola. The incubation period of the virus Chikungunya lasts for several days. Unexpected fever with a temperature of 40 degrees, often accompanied by severe pain in the joints, and muscle and headaches, nausea, fatigue and rash. Joint pain is often extremely powerful and usually disappear in a few days or weeks. Usually patients get well, but the pain can last for several months or even years.

Registered separate cases with ocular, neurological, cardiac complications and disruption of the gastrointestinal tract. To the severe complications of the disease leads infrequently, but among pensioners, the disease can be fatal. The first virus discovered in 1952 in Tanzania. Since then it has spread to Africa and Asia and has only recently emerged in the Caribbean.

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