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The State Department of Health (SES) confirmed, this Thursday (13), two more dengue fever deaths in Rio Grande do Sul. With confirmations, the state saves six deaths from the disease in 2024.
According to SES, the victims are two elderly people with comorbidities. A man was 65 years old and lived in Lindolfo Collor, a town of about 6,000 inhabitants 55 km from Porto Alegre. The other was 99 years old and lived in Ijuí, in the north-west of RS. The deaths were recorded, respectively, on Monday (10) and Wednesday (12).
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The Secretariat recalls the importance of seeking treatment in the health services as soon as the first symptoms appear, in order to prevent the disease from getting worse.
The state sum 5,478 cases of the disease, of which 5,014 are considered indigenous, that is, when the contagion occurred within the state. The remaining cases are imported, when residents have been infected out of state.
Health authorities recommend cleaning the internal and external areas of houses or apartments and eliminating objects with standing water. The practice helps prevent the birth of the transmitting mosquito, thus cutting off the life cycle in the aquatic phase of the insect.
Dengue fever symptoms
- high fever (39°C to 40°C), lasting two to seven days
- pain behind eyes
- headache
- aches
- articular pain
- general malaise
- nausea
- to vomit
- diarrhea
- red patches on the skin, with or without itching
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