Maracay.- The alarm was declared in the College of Physicians in Aragua state by the death of eight people during the last hours in the Maracay Central Hospital (HCM) caused by a virus or bacteria that have not yet identified.
The information was confirmed today by the President of the Guild of Health in the state, Angel Sarmiento, who explained that the eight victims, four adults and four children, have the same symptoms triggering death within 72 hours. He said that the sympthoms are fever reaching 40 degrees, malaise and skin rash which then form blisters.
Also, sepsis originating multiorgan failure resulting in a disseminated intravascular coagulation, bleeding from the ears and nose and the subsequent collapse of the body.
Sarmiento said there had been no previous cases with the same symptoms, being mentioned in the medical records of each patient as an acute hemorrhagic fever syndrome.
He ruled out that the cause of the disease was either Ebola or meningococcemia, as was rumored at first through social networks. He also dismissed the possibility that the case was chikungunya or dengue. He said is waiting for the results of tests performed on the bodies of the victims to determine whether it is a viral or bacterial disease.
The representative of the Guild of Health in the state said that two of the patients came from the Carabobo state and other municipalities Francisco Linares Alcántara (Morita), Mario Briceño Iragorry (Lemon) and Santos Michelena (The Tejerías) in Aragua. He argued that this is not a case of pollution in the Hospital of Maracay.
hypothesis:
Angel Rafael Orihuela, former health minister and a specialist in tropical diseases referred to several hypotheses that could explain the deaths by the similarity of symptoms with various diseases. One is the meningoccemia, but noted that there has been no epidemic in the country. Ritketsiosis was mentioned, caused by a mite that lives in mice, or plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
"It may be hemorrhagic dengue, but it is very rare that an outbreak occurs with sudden death. San Casimiro in Aragua, was the focus of jungle yellow fever. In that case one of the updates will be the death of monkeys in the area, "he said.
The specialist also said that Venezuela has Guanarito hemorrhagic fever, which has only in Portuguese state
He noted that the hantavirus causes bleeding due to inhalation of bacteria from dead mice. He said there are no records of clinical symptoms with the symptoms exhibited by victims who are related to chikungunya. He did not rule out a hemorrhagic viral fever of unknown origin or rodenticide poisoning case.
Unknown bacteria transmission method:
The governor of Aragua, Tarek El Aissami said it is false that there is an "alleged bacteria in the Central Hospital of Maracay."
In his Twitter account,TareckPSUV reported that "have broken chains msm and digital networks on alleged bacteria in the Central Hospital of Maracay. Totally false ".
"No wonder that the adeco (an opposition party) president of the College of Physicians of Aragua was who leads this campaign of rumors and terrorism," tweeted the governor and said that the director of Corposalud would give a press conference to explain what really happens in the Central Hospital Maracay.
Relatives of deceased break silence
About the situation that created alarm in the population of Maracay, the version of some deceased relatives were also consulted. According Yamin Herrera, associate of Alexander Ortiz, who died Monday by an unknown disease, reported that upon entering to the hospital he presented fever and at the time elapses it got worse.
" Alexander was completely swollen at Sunday night, he could not breathe and had bruises, blood was not circulating well. I only could say that he was out of breath and died on Monday morning.
Ortiz was 53 years old and lived in Caracas Avenue El Limón. It is thought that this case was not related with another patients becayse they were not family or friends. The body of the deceased had to be buried immediately because they were denied the proper medical autopsy to know the diagnosis of death.
Also the family of the young Leandro Ruiz (12) gave their statements. The press reported that the child was referred to Hcm ( Maracay Hospital) with fever and died before 72 hours. Briefly said the body was not delivered by the health center but was sent to the morgue Cicpc( a police office) because they did not want to have him autopsy.
