Patients are isolated and monitored; no employee of Parque da Fazendinha, where the sick bird was found, tested positive for H5N1
The Ministry of Health reported this Saturday 20, notification that two suspected cases of bird flu (H5N1) in humans, were discarded in Holy Spirit. Two are still awaiting lab results.
As the folder informed the Stadium, none of the 33 employees of the Parque da Fazendinha, in Espírito Santo, where a sick bird was found, tested positive. Only one of them was considered a suspected case, due to flu-like symptoms, and was under observation. It tested negative for all lenses tested, according to the ministry.
The other 32 employees, although not considered suspects, were also subjected to an investigation. Two tested positive for viruses that were already circulating (Influenza A and Influenza B), but not for H5N1.
In addition to the suspicion in Parque da Fazendinha, three other symptomatic patients were notified in the state, considered suspects for bird flu. One of them has already been discarded, the other two have collected samples and are awaiting results. According to the surveillance protocol, patients are isolated and monitored.
The folder informed that the samples had been analyzed by the Fiocruz laboratory, in Rio de Janeiro, after the referral by the Central Laboratory of Public Health (Lacen) of Espírito Santo. The Ministry of Health says it is conducting an active search to investigate all people who have had contact with the animals.
As shown by Stadiumlast Monday 15, confirmed the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa). the detection of the first three cases of avian influenza viruses in three wild birds on the coast of Espírito Santo.
Two of the three contaminated birds are of the species Trinta-réis-de-bando (Thalasseus acuflavidus), which were found in the municipalities of Marataízes and in Vitória (Jardim Camburi district). The third sick animal is a brown booby (Sula leucogaster), a migratory bird that has been at the Institute for Research and Rehabilitation of Marine Animals 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. .
In a press conference held on Thursday 18, the Undersecretary of Health Surveillance of Espírito Santo, Orlei Cardoso, he had already communicated that 32 cases were out of monitoring and the patient being investigated was asymptomatic. “Within 24 hours he could be released,” he said./ COLLABORATED BY CAIO POSSATI
Source: Terra
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