Sespa disclose within 15 days the results of tests done on patients Curuçá

 Updated 04/12/2012 at 18:53
Sespa disclose within 15 days the results of tests done on patients Curuçá


Bernardo Cardoso (c) told reporters that tests ruled out contamination by influenza viruses, including influenza A (H1N1)


The State Department of Public Health (Sespa) continues to investigate the cause of the disease that affects 19 people, residents of the city of Curuçá in northeastern Pará, and stipulated a deadline of 15 days to disseminate the results of all tests that are being performed by Instituto Evandro Chagas (IEC) and the Central Laboratory of the State (Lacen). In an interview on the afternoon of Tuesday (4), the director of the Department of Endemic Disease Control, Bernardo Cardoso, said that the tests were negative for common viruses like Influenza, including Influenza A (H1N1). However, several tests are still being conducted by the IEC and Lacen.

The main symptoms of the patients are fever, shortness of breath, oliguria (reduced urine volume), hypotension, hypoglycemia, bradycardia (slow heart rate) and hemorrhagic manifestations in the digestive system. Therefore, samples were taken from nasal and pharyngeal secretions of patients as well as blood for a series of laboratory tests such as blood culture and research of several viruses.

Bernardo Cardoso said the Sespa currently works with the following assumptions: poisoning and contamination by bacteria, viruses and fungus. For investigation of possible poisoning, the Department will work with the Toxicology Laboratory of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), which examine the spilled accidentally in Curuçá Municipal Hospital, originally named as causing the problem.

The director emphasized that the state government, through Sespa, intensified work to discover the cause of the disease, "it remains unclear to doctors, specialists and researchers."

The director of Lacen, Licinius Lira, explained that laboratory investigations require time, because you have to wait for the possible cause of the disease to proliferate in the laboratory and can be identified. The Lacen also is analyzing samples of water that supplies the Hospital Curuçá.

The director of the Health Surveillance Sespa, Nobre Guimarães Rosa, said at the time, 14 patients remain hospitalized, including five in the University Hospital João de Barros Barreto, a Hospital in Port-day, two in the Women's Health Hospital, and six in Curuçá . She also said that the 3rd Regional Health Center is providing Sespa beds in Castlebay (municipality northeast region) to receive patients from Curuçá to the local hospital can be completely disinfected.

As Nobre Guimarães Rosa, technical areas of Epidemiology and Health Surveillance continue working in the municipality, to reassure the population.
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