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The first two deaths from Oropuche fever in the world in Brazil

Fever, headache, retro-orbital pain, myalgia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, lower extremity pain and weakness

The first two deaths from Oropuche fever in the world occur in Brazil.

Il Brazilian Ministry of Health confirmed two deaths due to Oropouche fever, in the State of Bahia: these are the first recorded in the world.

Oropouche fever is a tropical viral infection transmitted by midges and mosquitoes and takes its name from the region in which it was discovered and isolated for the first time in 1955, at the regional laboratory of Trinidad, close to the river Oropouche, Trinidad and Tobago.

“Until today, global scientific literature had not reported any cases of deaths due to this disease”, we read in a statement released by the Ministry, as reported CNN Brazil.

According to the Health Secretariat of the state of Bahia, the first death was confirmed on June 17. The patient was 24 years old, lived in Valença and died in March. The second death, of a woman, was recorded last Monday, it reports Brazilian Agency.

The Bahia secretariat reports that patients who died due to Oropuche fever had symptoms such as fever, headache, retro-orbital pain (in the deepest part of the eye), myalgia (muscle pain), nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, lower extremity pain and weakness.

Both evolved with more serious signs such as: red and purple spots on the body, bleeding, drowsiness and vomiting with hypotension, severe bleeding and a sharp drop in hemoglobin and platelets in the blood.

In Brasile i primi due morti di febbre Oropuche al mondo

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