Thursday, 21 December 2017

PRO/AH/EDR> Hantavirus - Americas (59): Brazil (RS) yellow fever NOT

Hantavirus -- Brazil
The State Center for Health Surveillance (CEVS) today stated that a yellow fever case in the Candelria municipality was discarded as such. The Instituto Adolfo Lutz in Sao Paulo confirmed that case was a hantavirus [infection], an acute disease caused by a virus. In Brazil, hantavirus [infections] occur as cardiopulmonary syndromes. In the initial phase, symptoms are fever, arthralgia, headache, back pain, abdominal pain and gastrointestinal symptoms. In the cardiopulmonary phase there is

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