Monitorial health department 50 people who had had contact with victim of hemorrhagic fever

03/12/2008 to 10h40m CBN,
- For measure of prevention, 50 people who had had contact with the South African engineer victim of hemorrhagic fever start to be monitored in this Wednesday for the Health department and the city departments and state of Health. They are employee of the two hospitals, of the company where it gave the training and of the hotel where he was housed. The engineer, of 53 years, died in the morning of the tuesday in the Nursing home Is Jose, in the Humaitá. If the virus does not know which that can have caused the fever, but the main suspicion of the Health department he is arenavírus, a type of microorganism in general related severe illnesses e, therefore, feared.
The examinations with samples of blood of the patient had been sent for analysis in laboratories of the Oswaldo Foundation Cross (Fiocruz) and must be ready in up to three days. In accordance with the infectologista Robert Medronho, head of the Department of Preventive Medicine of the UFRJ, the biggest risk is of the health professionals who had had contact with the engineer during the manifestation of the symptoms. It standes out that the people who had had contact with the engineer at the time of incubation of the illness, that lasts about ten days, do not have to be worried, therefore the contamination risk is practically zero. - I infect if of the one by means of the direct contact with vomit, excrements or secretions of the patient during the period of the fever - Medronho explains.
Virus is not so contagious as in the fição films The Nursing home Is Jose informed that during the period where the patient was interned, all the measures of isolation to guarantee the security guard of patients and doctors had been taken.
According to Medronho, patient with hemorrhagic fever must be isolated, but this does not want to say that the floor or the entire hospital must be emptied. The health professionals must use masks, gloves and apron to prevent the contamination. - Arenavírus is not so contagious as it makes in to believe them the films of scientific fiction - the infectologista standes out. Before being interned in the Nursing home They are Jose, the engineer passed for the Hospital D' Bar; Or.
In accordance with the telejornal " Good Day Rio" , the only flight that left Joanesburgo for Brazil, in Saturday when arrived the engineer, was the SA-222 of the company South African Airways, for São Paulo. The South African would have come to the River in flight of the TAM. In the city, he was housed in the Transamérica Hotel, the Bar of the Tjuca. It was in the city to aprestar service for the company Choice Tecnologies, also in the Bar. According to secretary of the company, the owners had travelled and alone they go to disclose itself in this fourth. - It does not have reason for alarm. It was a case alone and all the necessary cares are being taken. We are investigating. In the truth, it is one suspicion - it said Meri Baran, coordinator of the City department of Health, in interview to " Good Day Rio". The body of the South African, who remained in the unit of health until the end of the morning of this Wednesday, must be directed for the laboratory of the Army, of where it will be sent - Consulate saw - directly for Africa, in sealed up zinc coffin.