Although the curve is shooting up, they affirm that the situation is under control. Five neighborhoods of the City have greater circulation and the most critical situation is experienced.
“It is warned an exponential increase in consultations for dengue on guards. The curve is rising and although the numbers where I work are not important, the increase in cases is worrying. Three weeks ago we were still talking regarding Covid, dengue was almost not a leading issue… Well, that has changed radically now,” describes Flavio Rotryng, head of infectious diseases at the Finochietto Sanatorium.
Rotryng points out that the situation is still under control, except in Communes 9 and 11, which includes neighborhoods such as Mataderos, Floresta, Montecastro, Parque Avellaneda and Villa del Parque, “where yes the situation is complicated and in many hospitals in those areas they no longer carry out tests due to what is called diagnosis by epidemiological link. In other words, it is not justified to spend on a study in neighborhoods where there is a peak of cases“.
From the Health area of the city of Buenos Aires, he pointed out to Clarion that “there are many consultations and confirmed cases but they are outpatients. We don’t have any collapsed guard in the City“.
Eleonora Cunto, an infectologist at Hospital Muñiz, confirms “the worrying increase. There is a lot of work on guardsthere are more and more consultations for dengue but the majority are outpatients”. At the same time, the professional remarks that “people do not do prevention such as clutter and the use of repellent and mosquito netting, and carelessness when it comes to collecting water or cleaning containers and vases every 48 hours”.
Juan Carlos Cisneros, deputy director of the Muñiz Hospital, had already pointed it out: “I think that the heat wave was negativein the sense that it made the development of the mosquito more possible and that we have had this outbreak, which although it did not reach the dimensions of 2020, has come closer.”
exclusive dengue room
It should be noted that Muniz, although there are no severe cases, had to open an exclusive room for dengue patients. And the pediatric ward is also exclusively for children with this disease.
In the Italian Hospital “there is a 300 percent increase in the number of suspected dengue cases and, proportionally, in the case of positive cases”, they pointed out to this newspaper. While in Swiss Medical Group “there are indeed many consultations, which can cause some delay in care at certain times, but there is no overflow or collapse.”
The infectologist Hugo Pizzi talks regarding “a worrisome situation in the City of Buenos Aires and in Argentina. “At the national level, the map is stained and clearly more than ten thousand cases have been exceeded. In fact, in epidemiology we handle an underreporting that would indicate that there is 15 or 20 percent more than what is spread. The number of mosquitoes is consistent with the weather, which multiplies their reproduction.”
Pizzi stresses that there is an indisputable aspect: “The mosquito and the dengue already are autochthonouss. At first they were all travelers, there were isolated cases in Retiro, in Ezeiza, but now 97 percent of the cases are autochthonous, typical of the territory, with a very sad diagnosis, which means that the pathology has settled in the country and it will be very difficult to get it outusing the methods that are being carried out”.
Both Rotryng and Pizzi agree that “there are more compromised neighborhoods such as Mataderos, Floresta, Villa del Parque, because they have more nooks, gardens, vegetation, where there is an accumulation of water – stagnant water – and people do not respond or are disinterested in the topic, downplaying it. The City is very divided but little by little the consultations grow with intensity”.
A few days ago, Federico Charabora, director of the Santojanni Hospital, had pointed out that “the increase in cases began three weeks ago, when they grew from 10 to 20 and thus doubled until reaching the numbers we currently have, which are 80 to 90 daily patients”.
Rotryng and Charabona agree that “the symptoms are unavoidable. Fever above 38, added to joint pain or intense headaches, or spots on the skin or constant pain behind the eye are considered pathologies related to dengue.”
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