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Dengue type 4 was in Brazil

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Researchers have identified the USP provide the new virus in Manaus, but the Health Ministry does not confirm

Rio - Researchers from USP (Universidade de São Paulo) claim to have demonstrated the emergence of dengue type 4 in Brazil. They analyzed two patients in Manaus, Amazonas. The result is published in an article in the journal "PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases." With a new virus circulating, increases the possibility of a patient who has otherwise been reinfected, contracting dengue haemorrhagic, a lethal form of the disease.

The Ministry of Health, however, denies that there is movement of the type 4 in Brazil. According to the body, tests for rapid diagnosis of dengue are carried out in 50 'sentinel plants' in 16 states and 25 cities and strategic identification of the type of virus stock is performed routinely in the units of reference, as Fiocruz.

According to Paolo Zanotto, researcher of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, USP, one of the problems of the government say that the dengue type 4 is not in the country is the fact not to include this type of virus in the detection systems in use by health monitoring.

Last year, a study published by researchers from the State of Amazonas has already said that the dengue type 4 was found in three patients in Manaus. But the Health Ministry also denied. The infectologist Maria Paula Mourão, the Foundation of Tropical Medicine of Amazonas, which included the team that published the study in 2008, says the group is fully convinced of the results. "I would love to have an opening (the Ministry of Health) to people talk among themselves again," he said.

Scientists believe that the USP has been the virus directly from Asia, instead of passing the first Central American and Caribbean, as is usually the default. "The intensification of economic activity between Brazil and Asian countries (especially China) can explain," wrote.

For researchers, the presence of dengue type 4 in the Americas "should be received with great attention and be a strengthening of surveillance activities."

 
 


Source: The Day

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