The Ministry of Health has ruled out a resident of the Road to the Coast having a wart case from Peru; Urticaria on the skin will be the result of another evil | Society | Guayaquil

The suspicious case discovered on the road to the coast, in western Guayaquil, is not a Peruvian wart, confirmed on Thursday morning, February 24, by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP).

“In this particular case, we did not find Bartonella (the bacteria) associated with the so-called Peruvian wart,” said Catherine Olaya, epidemiological spokeswoman for District 8 Health Coordination.

Symptoms of Oroya fever or Peruvian warts

The official pointed out that neither the bacteria nor the vector that transmits the aforementioned disease was found in the investigation that was conducted.

Al-Olaya said that the bacteria detected in the patient is transmitted through what is known as “cat scratch”, which is a common occurrence.

On February 8, the Ministry of Public Health confirmed that it was jointly investigating the National Institute for Public Health Research (INSPI) into the possible case of a Peruvian wart recorded on the road to the coast.

From that moment on, various fumigation battalions from the Ministry of Municipal and Municipalities headed to this sector to carry out various fumigation operations due to this alert issued by the residents of that area.

There, at that time, neighbors noted that some areas were infested with mosquitoes, and that it was impossible to leave after six in the evening because of the vectors.

Peruvian warts are transmitted by mosquitoes Lutzomyia verracarum. Pathology appeared in other regions of the country, such as Morona Santiago, Loja and Manabe, but not in Zone 8 (Guayaquil, Doran and Samborondon).

Symptoms of this disease are fever, pallor, anemia, malaise, jaundice (yellowing of the skin color), growth of lymph nodes, liver or spleen. Warts appear in the chronic stage.

On Thursday morning, brigades from the Health File are conducting vector control in Puerto Hondo. Compliance with evaporation and evaporation within atoms. Doctors asked citizens to clean their yards and avoid littering. (me)