Health experts recommend maintaining preventive care against mosquitoes to avoid more serious symptoms after another possible infection.
Argentina is suffering one of the worst dengue epidemics, with an indigenous circulation of the virus in 19 of the 23 provinces of the country. Health experts warn about the conditions that come with the disease and the care to avoid more complex symptoms in a second contagion.
During the period from July 2023 to the first half of March, An average of 321 cases were recorded per 100 thousand inhabitants. The most affected provinces are Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe, Chaco and Formosa.
Dengue: what happens if I get sick twice
The dengue virus is associated with four types of serotypes, which are defined: DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 and DENV-4. Regarding this classification, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) explains that: “due to one serotype, followed by another infection with a different serotype, a person’s risk of suffering from severe dengue and even death increases.”
Regarding the same disease, the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) complements the information by highlighting that A person can be infected with the dengue virus multiple times throughout their life.. To which they add: “It is more likely that someone will have severe dengue fever if they have already had a dengue infection before.”
Dengue: immunity time
Although the exact periods of immunity are not known, Mayo Clinic professionals indicate that Those who recover from dengue will have long-term defenses against the serotype or know that they were infected. But they will not have protection over the other three variants of the virus.
Dengue: which organs the disease affects
This disease presents very varied symptoms. There may be asymptomatic people, others with mild conditions while others may present serious symptoms.. This last step is characterized by affecting the blood vessels. They usually begin with a moderate fever accompanied by eye pain, discomfort and pain in joints and muscles. Ending with stomach bleeding, intestinal bleeding and nose bleeding.
The pulmonologist, Jorge Pascual, indicates that: “the disease continues to progress and increasingly affects a greater number of blood vessels, making them permeable and blood escaping from them.” These conditions cause consequences that They affect the organs of the lung, heart, brain and liver.
Source: Ambito
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