Four Suspect Zika Microcephaly Cases In Guatemala

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four possible cases of microcephaly are reported zika

Laboratory tests are carried out in Guatemala, USA.UU. and Brazil, to confirm the diagnosis.

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By Andrea Orozco and Geldi Muñoz

July 7, 2016 at 12: 02h

Edgar Arana, ministry spokesperson, told Prensa Libre that two of the births occurred in Suchitepequez, Escuintla and another one in the Roosevelt Hospital.

Still no dates which were recorded births is determined.

According to Arana, the mothers had no prenatal care in the public sector and only attended the national hospital for the birth of children.

• Read also: Zika, a latent threat in Guatemala

The official explained that the laboratory tests to confirm or exclude that children have been infected with the virus, and that mothers have had the disease, were sent to the Center for Disease Control (CDC in English), for a second opinion as those practiced in the country were negative.

The results of the second tests are in Guatemala within a month.

 

 

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Roosevelt Hospital director, Carlos Soto, said the birth at the hospital occurred in June, of a mother who came referred to Mazatenango, Suchitepequez.

According to the doctor, the woman would have her child in a private hospital, but when doctors realized that the child's skull was smaller than normal and followed the protocol referred to that hospital.

The background Mother confirmed that she was infected with zika, but laboratory samples of the child were sent to the National Health Laboratory and Brazil to determine if the baby also contracted the virus and, if positive, have a reconfirmation .

This is the first birth of a child with microcephaly, because zika, who served in the Roosevelt Hospital.

Health spokesman indicated that registered the birth of 34 children who are healthy and whose mothers were infected with the virus.

• Read also: Gives birth first woman infected with zika in Guatemala

In figures

Until 4 June, health authorities confirmed 343 cases of zika in the country and 534 thousand suspected cases.

The departments reported more confirmed cases are Suchitepequez, 51; Guatemala, 49; and Santa Rosa, 31. As suspects leads Santa Rosa, 266; Quetzaltenango, 261; and Zacapa, 183.

Of the 343 confirmed cases, 85 are pregnant women, 14 of which are in Suchitepequez and 11 in Quetzaltenango.

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Edited July 8, 2016 by niman

[niman]

four possible cases of microcephaly are reported zika

 Health authorities in Guatemala study four children who were born with smaller than normal head, but whose mothers have suffered from this evil.

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Health,

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By Andrea Orozco and Geldi Muñoz

July 7, 2016 at 12: 02h

 

Edgar Arana, Health Ministry spokesman confirmed that four children were born with this anomaly, one in Escuintla and three in Suchitepequez.

 

The Aedes Aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquito is transmitting Dengue, Chikugunya and Zika virus.

 

 

"In none of them are mothers -the process of pregnancy was followed by the Ministry. He indicated that the particular doctor that tried told them they could have had zika and they did tests, both babies and mothers, to determine if there was presence of zika, and were negative, "he said.

Arana said samples to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC in English) in the United States for a second evaluation were sent, and the results will be known when that entity to provide its findings.

"But at the moment it is false that there is a birth of microcephaly associated with zika already proven," he said.

Carlos Soto, director of the Roosevelt Hospital, differs with respect Arana Health, as indicated last June that attended a patient who was admitted with diagnosed zika and this gave birth to a baby with microcephaly.

"We did all the tests to the newborn. They have not returned National Laboratory, but he did all the other tests were negative and the patient. He also did a CT scan and found the child itself is obviously microcephaly "he said.

Soto, however, stressed that they have the lab results may be certain if the child contracted zika.

"Obviously, if we zika mother, newborn with microcephaly, and other negative tests for microcephaly, then I think it could be microcephaly by zika" he said.

The doctor said the patient was referred to a sanatorium in Mazatenango, Suchitepequez.

Arana said that since November 15, 2015 to June 25 last reported 453 newly confirmed cases zika two thousand 76 suspects. Besides that period recorded in 109 pregnant women, of which 36 babies were born. "We all are healthy, none have been reported with congenital anomaly," he said.

• Read also: Zika, a latent threat in Guatemala

The official explained that the laboratory tests to confirm or exclude that children have been infected with the virus, and that mothers have had the disease, were sent to the Center for Disease Control (CDC in English), for a second opinion as those practiced in the country were negative.

The results of the second tests are in Guatemala within a month.

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