Guantanamo.- An increase in febrile cases has been recently reported in the Guantánamo municipality and patients have been diagnosed with dengue and orupouche, Dr. Leyanis Nápoles Reyna, says, who is deputy director of medical and social assistance in this territory.
Dr. Nápoles Reyna explains that there is no specific treatment, only general measures to relieve symptoms, such as fever, headache, joint pain, general malaise, diarrhea and vomiting, hence the importance of promptly attending the doctor office and, if it is necessary to comply with home or hospital admission.
Both viruses are transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes Aegypti and the genus Culex respectively, vectors that proliferate in the inadequate environmental conditions of several health areas and the high in temperatures and rainfall.
Given the current epidemiological situation, the most important thing is the cooperation of the population to maintain adequate hygiene in homes, workplaces and their surrounding areas; in addition to contributing to the anti-vector campaign operators in charge of monitoring control/or adulticide treatment.
The doctor, Leyanis Napoles Reyna, deputy director of medical assistance in the capital municipality, said that dengue is a disease that requires timely and early treatment, since sometimes it can be severe enough to cause death.
For its part, the clinical picture of Oropouche is mild, preceded by an incubation period of 5 to 7 days, which is characterized by fever, headaches, muscle and joint pain, and sometimes also causes vomiting and diarrhea.
She also says that associated with this virus, in a group of patients it is observed that on the sixth day a condition similar to the initial one appears, it does not either leave sequelae, or cause death.
Dr. Napoles also points out that through follow-up and surveillance actions of non-specific febrile syndromes, it was identified that all patients have been favorably recovered, with improvement in symptoms between the third and fourth day of the onset of the disease.
In the context of the ongoing health and hygiene situation, patients with Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) are also reported in the Guantánamo Municipality, although there is a decrease in the number of medical care for this cause.
Translated by Liubis Balart
