Another 4 people have presented this pathology. “Doctors have already ruled out COVID, influenza, influenza A and B, Hantavirus and 25 other germs.”
Two people died this week in Tucuman in the northwest Argentinadue to acute pneumonia of “unknown origin”, a fact that has alarmed the medical body, the health authorities announced yesterday Wednesday.
A total of six people, members of the nursing staff and a patient in an intensive care unit (ICU) of a clinic in Tucuman, presented this pathology.
One patient succumbed on Monday, a second on Wednesday, three more persons are hospitalized, while the sixth, whose condition is considered satisfactory, is at home in isolation, the Ministry of Health of Tucuman province clarified.
“These patients have in common that they presented with an acute respiratory infection, with bilateral pneumonia, and they present a picture very similar to that of COVID, but that was ruled out”the provincial told the press Minister of Health, Luis Medina Ruiz.
The patients “they’ve already been tested for COVID, influenza, influenza A and B, Hantavirus and 25 other germs”with negative results, he added.
According to Mr. Medina, it may be an infection due to infectious agent, however, toxic and/or environmental causes are not excluded either, while analyzes of water samples and air conditioning systems are still ongoing.
The cases are “five members of the health staff and a patient of the intensive care unit of a private clinic in San Miguel de Tucuman,” who “began to show symptoms between August 18 and 22,” the national health ministry said in a press release.
“No new cases have been recorded since August 22,” not even among close contacts of the patients, which the provincial ministry described as “positive news,” assuring that the situation is “under control.”
Samples were sent to be urgently analyzed by the national reference laboratory, the Malbran Institute in Buenos Aires; results are expected by the end of the week.
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