Juan Carlos Cisnerosdeputy director of Hospital Muñiz, maintained that in recent times there has been an exponential growth of dengue cases, but it has not yet reached the dimension of three years ago. “The patients that we were in therapy, until now, were infected with dengue while they had another infection,” he explained in Fontevecchia modeby net tv and RadioProfile (FM 101.9).
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How serious do you assign to the growth of dengue cases in a city like Buenos Aires?
We have had this last month a exponential growth. I think the heat wave was negative, in the sense that it made the development of the mosquito and that we have had this outbreak, which although it did not reach the dimensions of 2020, has come closer.
Does it leave permanent sequelae?
No, it is a disease that one could classify as trivial, but it has a certain percentage of seriousness. The dengue mosquito bites the legs. In the first infection, this serious picture is seen in few patients.
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Dengue are four different viruses, and each one when it infects a person gives them immunity, but only against that type of virus. It has the characteristic that, when it is repeated with another serotype, it has a greater risk of severity. So, over time, more serious cases appear.
In the case of this outbreak, we have not had a large number of severe cases, but yes some that forced us to open a room. For example, at the Muñiz Hospital, we had to leave a room to admit patients with dengue. And the pediatric ward is also almost exclusively with children with dengue.
Regarding the aftermath, Sergio Berni said that almost four years after being infected, they continued to have symptoms. Does it leave sequelae?
No, there may be some special case, but It is not a disease that leaves sequelae.
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Unless some of the bleeding that has caused a severe form leaves a sequel, but it is something different and it would only be seen in very serious cases. in general andIt’s an infectious and viral disease that leaves no sequelae, except chronic fatigue syndromes, which are very difficult to give a cause.
That fatigue syndrome, is it something that lasts?
This can last a long time, and is associated with different diseases. They have even been associated with Covid, but how it can appear without a history of infections is something that always remains in a haze.
But it’s not really a problem with regards to dengue. In tropical countries probably everyone has had dengue.
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Can you take some kind of precaution? Is anyone more at risk?
It is seen more in young people, but it is because they are the ones who circulate the most. care is usual there is no special risk group for this.
The cases that we have experienced in therapy so far were due to dengue fever while they had a severe infection.
What is happening now, does it have to do with climate change and the tropicalization of the city?
Yes, all the climate change brings what are the emerging diseases that one sometimes would not suit them.
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I always tell the anecdote where I argued with my tenured professor, who was in love with these diseases and a precursor, because he saw that all this was coming more than 30 years ago, because they taught us that.
All these diseases have to do with the climate change.
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