Dengue Fever Cases in Miami Beach Heave up Fears
The region health officials said that a Miami Beach man who had not been out of the region for months had alleged case of dengue fever, prompting worries that the painful but rarely deadly viral disease has came again to Miami-Dade region for the first time in a period of ten years ago.
Dr. Vincent Conte, epidemiologist for the Miami-Dade Health Department said that the Florida Department of Health laboratory is testing a blood sample from the patient for verification, which should acquire one or two days.
According to Olga Connor, spokeswoman for the health department says that there’s a 50 percent possibility the case will be confirmed, and we would like to bring the message early so people can get safety measures.
The Beach man in Miami — who was not recognized, was hesitantly identified in early July, hospitalized, treated and has recovered, Conte said. He had not left the region lately, so he should have constricted the illness here and not abroad, Conte said.
Conte said that while the case is unverified, it increases fears that dengue fever, which is successively at epidemic levels in Puerto Rico and in Latin and Caribbean countries, is coming to the United States for the first time in decades.
Since 2009 Key West has had 43 confirmed cases since August 2009. Previously, the disease had not been distinguished in Florida since 1934, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The disease is a viral infection that causes high fever, severe headache, pain in the eyes, joints and bones, and a rash. It is rarely serious except in the very young or elderly with preexisting medical conditions
The health officials said that there is no vaccine or cure, health officials said. Several doctors simply treat the symptoms. The most excellent resistance are to keep away from mosquitoes by wearing insect repellent and movable clothing when going outdoors at morning or nightfall, and emptying water from containers on covered entrance, patios and even inside the house.
Arlo Haskel, a 32 year-old resident of Old Town in Key West said he was also diagnosed with dengue fever last month.
He said that in the first two days was really not good for him, with a fever of 103 and strong pain in my eyeballs and all my bones and joints, my spine, ankles, knees. The fever broke after 48 hours, but it was still not good for three more days.”
Haskel said, the media director of the annual Key West Literary Festival that the doctors prescribed Tylenol and ibuprofen, which relieved the pain,.
The Miami Beach case is not connected to the cases in Key West for the reason that the man had not traveled out of Miami-Dade, according to the Miami-Dade health officials.
The health department declared the deaths of two more horses at local ranches — one in West Miami-Dade, the other in counties southwest — from Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), a disease increase by a dissimilar breed of mosquito.
If the mosquito bites an infected horse and then a human the disease can be multiply to humans. Last July 2 the two horses first tested positive for the disease.
The Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) is uncommon in human being, and the majority that acquire it show no sign of illness — even though in the unusual , most brutal cases it can cause brain damage or be fatal, according to the CDC.
Miami-Dade health officials would not make open the place of the infected horses or the exact site of the suspected dengue patient.
“We don’t want to cause a panic,” said the health department’s Connor. “We previously have a health optional out.”
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