The figures are part of the general statistics of the last three weeks, a period in which health authorities detected a total of 19,101 suspects for arbovirosis, including 203 for dengue, according to the Department of Health Surveillance.
Of the 23 deaths from chikungunya, 61 percent are men and 39 percent are women, the Ministry of Health added. Only during the last week, 2,389 chikungunya infections and 37 dengue infections were diagnosed, the source said.
The Paraguayan regions most affected by the disease are the Central department, near this capital, with 7,344 cases, and Asunción, with 3,266.
Fifty percent of Paraguayans infected with arboviral diseases such as chikungunya and dengue arrive at health centers with severe complications in their symptoms, an entity of high studies reported today.
These patients infected by both diseases are admitted with aggravated clinical and respiratory symptoms, some of the latter suspected of suffering from Covid-19, said an expert from the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of Asunción.
Both capital entities are listed together with the Hospital of Cliniques among the main ones in the country to deal with the aforementioned arboviral diseases, explained Professor Fátima González.
This set of health institutions offers medical care, based on programmed prevention, in coordination with the Chair and the Family Medicine Service of the University of Asunción.
The South American country has suffered a growing increase in these conditions so far this year, especially chikungunya.
Those infected have increased in recent weeks in this capital and the rest of the metropolitan area, according to Dr. Guillermo Sequera, director of Health Surveillance.
The conditions present in the disease are fever, skin rash, severe arthralgias (intense joint pain) and gastrointestinal disorders, which generally disappear within 15 days.
Those infected by arbovirosis are spreading today like never before throughout the world, at the same time that human activity, through trade and intercontinental travel, favors the interaction of the vector and the host, medical sources specify.
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