Three cases of human leishmaniasis are confirmed in Porto Alegre

The Municipal Health Department of Porto Alegre (RS) reported that three cases of human visceral leishmaniasis in the region. A one-year-old and seven-month-old girl and a 40-year-old man died in September 2016 because of the disease. The third person is an 81 year old woman, who also lives in the same neighborhood as the first two infected people. She is hospitalized in a serious condition.

An alert was issued about the disease by the Sanitary Surveillance. There is guidance for health professionals about patients with fever for more than seven days, with enlargement of the spleen and liver, pallor and weight loss. The neighborhoods of Jardim Carvalho and Morro Santana are the areas considered endemic and were found there infected dogs.

What is leishmaniasis?

This is an infectious disease, but not contagious, caused by parasites of the genus Leishmania. The parasites live and multiply inside the cells that are part of the individual's defense system, called macrophages. There are two types of leishmaniasis: tegumentary or cutaneous leishmaniasis and visceral leishmaniasis or karazar.

Tegumentary leishmaniasis is characterized by skin wounds that are most frequently located in the body's uncovered parts. Suddenly, sores on the mucous membranes of the nose, mouth, and throat may appear. This form of leishmaniasis is known as "bruised wound."

Visceral leishmaniasis is a systemic disease because it affects several internal organs, especially the liver, spleen and bone marrow. This type of leishmaniasis mainly affects children up to ten years old; after this age it becomes less frequent. It is a long-term disease, lasting for a few months or even over a year.

Monkeys are a warning for yellow fever: killing them is not the solution

Which appear daily on yellow fever, added to the fear and insecurity of the population, it is almost inevitable that many rumors will gain prominence. One of them, who was circulating through social networks, is that some people were trying to kill the monkeys living in the areas with the highest incidence of the disease.

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Asthma: see how homeopathy can treat it as well

First, it is important to note that asthma is a disease that has no cure, neither for allopathic (conventional medicine) treatment as well as homeopathy. Asthma is defined as a chronic disease of the airways, so as I say in consultation, it has a beginning, but it has neither means nor end. This is the definition of chronic disease.

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