The patient is a 61-year-old man who works in a park in Vitória, Espírito Santo; a bird infected with the virus was found at the site
OR Ministry of Health investigates a suspected case of bird flu A (H5N1)OR bird fluin the state of Holy Spirit. The patient is a 61-year-old man from the capital Vitória and, according to the ministry, works in the same park where a contaminated bird was found.
As established by the health surveillance protocol, the patient is in isolation and is monitored by the health teams of the municipality. Until this Wednesday he had mild flu symptoms, but, according to information from the security department of the state of Espírito Santo, the man is asymptomatic and will be able to leave the quarantine on Friday.
32 other people who also work at the park have had samples taken for the investigation. The material is being analyzed at the Central Public Health Laboratory (Lacen) in Espírito Santo, before being sent to Fiocruz, the state reference laboratory.
In a press conference held this Thursday 18, the undersecretary of Health Surveillance of Espírito Santo, Orlei Cardoso, reported that 32 cases are already out of monitoring and the patient under investigation is already asymptomatic. “Within 24 hours he could be released,” he said.
“Regarding this human bird flu case, we want to confirm that this is a suspected case, that this sample has been forwarded to the reference laboratory, and we will probably have the result from this patient in the next week,” said the undersecretary.
If confirmed, it will be the first case of human influenza A contamination in Brazil. Bird flu is transmitted through contact with sick birds, whether alive or dead from the disease. Despite being considered highly contagious, infection between birds and people doesn’t happen easily, and human-to-human is not “sustainable,” according to the Ministry of Health.
“Importantly, there have been no confirmed cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) in humans in Brazil,” the ministry said in a statement.
On Monday 15, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) confirmed the identification of the first three cases of avian influenza virus in three wild birds on the coast of Espírito Santo.
Two of the three infected birds are of the species Thirty réis-de-bando (Thalasseus acuflavidus), found in the municipalities of Marataízes and Vitória (Jardim Camburi neighborhood). The third sick animal is a brown booby (booby leucogaster), a migratory bird found at the Marine Animal Research and Rehabilitation Institute of Cariacica (Ipram).
“Currently, the world is experiencing the largest pandemic of highly pathogenic avian influenza (IAAP) and most of the cases are linked to contact between migratory wild birds and subsistence, production or local wild birds,” the Ministry informed. .
Depending on the evolution of the investigation and the epidemiological scenario, the ministry said that new sanitary measures could be taken by the ministry and also by the state agricultural health agencies to prevent the spread of the disease and protect the domestic poultry industry.
In a statement released Thursday, the ministry said confirmed cases of contaminated wild birds in Brazil do not affect Brazil’s status as a virus-free country. bird flu highly pathogenic (HPAI) and that the World Organization for Animal Health (WHO) should not impose bans on international trade in domestic poultry products.
Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA) he also considered that the cases should not affect the flow of international trade in Brazilian products.
Source: Terra
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