Wednesday, 3 April 2019

PRO/AH/EDR> Unidentified febrile disease - Brazil: RFI

Fever -- Brazil
Infectious disease physicians in the state health network of the Rio Grande do Sul Federal University UFRN) did not confirm that the disease, having symptoms similar to chikungunya [virus infection], observed this past week in 140 residents of 2 neighborhoods of Tirol and Petropolis in Natal [state] is in fact chikungunya. Blood tests done on Sat 23 Mar 2019 on samples from 6 individuals detected the presence of that virus, but the specialist physicians do not discard other hypotheses.

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6400677&promed&0

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