First case of Dengue in Polesine. This is confirmed by the press release from Ulss 5 Polesana, the Polesine health company.
The Ulss5 company of Rovigo informs that, a young woman returning from a trip abroad suffered symptoms compatible with Dengue. For this reason, the young woman underwent specific laboratory tests which, initially, defined the case as probable.
The woman lives in Rovigo: the Hygiene and Public Health service of the Ulss 5 Polesana company has taken charge of the report and is activating, as required by the protocol of the Veneto Region, the procedure envisaged with preventive adulticidal and larvicidal disinfestation treatments within 200 meters of the young woman’s home.
“Of viral origin, dengue – explains the Higher Institute of Health – is caused by four very similar viruses (Den-1, Den-2, Den-3 and Den-4) and it is transmitted to humans by mosquito bites which, in turn, bite an infected person. There is therefore no direct contagion between humans, even though humans are the main host of the virus. The virus circulates in the blood of the infected person for 2-7 days, and in this period the mosquito can pick it up and transmit it to others.”
“In the Western Hemisphere the main vector it’s the mosquito Aedes aegyptieven if there have been cases transmitted by Aedes albopictus. Dengue has been known for over two centuries, and is particularly present during and after the rainy season in the tropical and subtropical areas of Africa, Southeast Asia and China, India, the Middle East, Latin and Central America, Australia and several areas of the Pacific. In recent decades, the spread of dengue has increased in many tropical regions.”
Normally the disease gives rise to fever within 5-6 days of the mosquito bite, with even very high temperatures. Fever is accompanied by sharp headaches, pain around and behind the eyes, severe muscle and joint pain, nausea and vomiting, skin irritations that may appear over most of the body 3-4 days after the onset of fever. Typical symptoms are often absent in children.”
