A THIRD PERSON died this week in Argentina from a type of pneumonia of unknown origin, with deaths so limited to a single clinic, the Government of Public Health reported.
Nine other people in the northwestern province of Tucumán have contracted a mysterious respiratory disease, adding eight doctors to the private clinic, Tucumán Health Minister Luis Medina Ruiz told reporters.
Three other people, two members of the gym and now also a patient at the clinic, have died since Monday.
Authorities are conducting tests, but Medina said he has already ruled out covid-19, flu, influenza type A and B, bacterial legionella and hantavirus through rodents.
Samples sent to the Malbran Institute in Buenos Aires.
The most recent victim, a 70-year-old woman who had entered the clinic for surgery.
Medina said the woman may have been simply “patient zero, but this is being evaluated. “
The mysterious illness claimed its first victim among doctors at the clinic on Monday and a moment two days later.
The first six patients developed symptoms between August 18 and 23.
Medina said Wednesday that the patients were affected by “a serious respiratory condition with bilateral pneumonia . . . very covid. “s low
Symptoms included vomiting, high fever, diarrhea, and body aches.
Of the other six people treated, four were in serious condition in hospital and two in home isolation.
All other clinics were monitored.
Experts were testing water and air conditioners for imaginable contamination or poisoning.
The provincial fitness ministry said Wednesday that the outbreak could possibly have originated from an infectious agent, but investigators did not rule out “toxic or environmental causes. “
Infectious disease specialist Mario Raya said that “at the moment we have no instances outside” the stricken clinic.
Héctor Sale, president of the Faculty of Medicine of the Province of Tucumán, added: “We are facing a disease that causes transmission from person to person,” since no cases are known among the close contacts of any of the patients.
– © AFP 2022
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