Wednesday, 15 February 2017

PRO/EDR> Diphtheria - Venezuela: (AN, BO) resurgence

Diphtheria -- Venezuela
On Sunday morning [12 Feb 2017], the 2nd 10-year-old girl from Pariaguan, Anzoategui state, died in San Felix [Bolivar state] with clinical diagnosis of diphtheria.
The girl died of cardiac arrest only hours after having been admitted to intensive care at the health center in Bolivar state, because her illness had already been wreaking havoc on her body for 4 days.
Pediatricians reported that her father worked in the mining zone of the state and believe that he could have carried the

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2lhAdGm

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