Guayaquil Ecuador: Two children suspected of dying from Hemorrhagic Dengue Fever

Posted on March 13, 2012 • Filed under: Ecuador, Latin America Health, TRAVEL

Two children less than one year olda year have died of dengue hemorrhagic fever, as he told the parent in the nursing home where the child was hospitalized.
The night of Sunday March 5, the small Matias Vera, just one year, was transferred by his mother to a polyclinic Vinche Carolina near his home in the 24th and Q. She took him because he had fever and also quite bulky abdomen.
The mother said her son was bitten by mosquitoes, when she visited the house of a related facility at Mount Sinai.
In that same Sunday night, while I was at home, the child had fever, which led to the emergency clinic. “The doctor told me that 80% could be dengue hemorrhagic fever, and take him urgently to a particular hospital to make an examination of hemorrhagic dengue,” said Carolina Vinche, adding that the home care physician told him that “The child had an infection in the stomach.” The mother said that the doctor prescribed medicines for stomach infection called, but his health worsened stem, so it was again on Wednesday where the same doctor, who prescribed more drugs … Read Article

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