PRO/ESP> Diphtheria – Peru: re-emergency, confirmed case, girl

DIFTERIA – PERÚ: REEMERGENCIA, CASO CONFIRMADO, NIÑA *

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Date: May 18, 2023@email.com>

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Source: Mercopress, Peru@email.com>

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The Ministry of Health of Peru confirmed this week a case of@email.com>

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Diphtheria, 20 years since the last case was registered in the@email.com>

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Country. The patient is a five-year-old girl who lives in an area@email.com>

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Very poor in the center of Lima, he said at a press conference the@email.com>

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Deputy Minister of Public Health,@email.com>

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The little girl, he added, had only received vaccines from birth,@email.com>

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But not the subsequent doses of reinforcement necessary to maintain the@email.com>

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Immunity to this disease – treatable but highly contagious – that is@email.com>

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Fades with time.@email.com>

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The girl is currently hospitalized and under observation.@email.com>

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Doctor. His condition is stable. In the meantime, the authorities have@email.com>

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Displaced work teams to the neighborhood where the girl lived to@email.com>

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Investigate the situation and identify unvaccinated children.@email.com>

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Suárez also mentioned at the press conference that the Organization@email.com>

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Panamericana de la Salud (PAHO) had warned this year of the@email.com>

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Presence of cases of diphtheria in Brazil, Dominican Republic,@email.com>

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Haiti and Venezuela.@email.com>

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Communicated by: Jaime R. Towers