Mystery Pneumonia - It Killed Three And Infected Other Six In Argentina
Local health officials in Argentina have reported that three persons have died from mystery pneumonia. Experts have ruled out COVID-19, influenza, and hantavirus as possible causes, but six others have already been affected. Argentine health officials said on Thursday, September 1, that a third person had died this week that had been contained to a single clinic.
Author:Suleman ShahReviewer:Han JuSep 05, 20221 Shares179 Views
Local healthofficials in Argentina have reported that three persons have died from mystery pneumonia. Experts have ruled out COVID-19, influenza, and hantavirus as possible causes, but six othershave already been affected.
Argentine health officials said on Thursday, September 1, that a third person had died this week that had been contained to a single clinic.
Tucuman Health Minister Luis Medina Ruiz told reporters that nine people in the province had become sick with a respiratory mystery, including eight members of the private clinic's medical staff.
Since Monday, three people have passed away: two members of the healthcare staff and now a clinic patient.
Is This A Type Of COVID-19?
Authorities are performing testing, although Medina said they had already ruled out COVID-19, the flu, influenza types A and B, legionella bacterial illness, and hantavirus carried by rodents.
The Malbran Institute in Buenos Aires has received the samples. The most recent casualty was a 70-year-old lady brought to the hospital for surgery.
The lady may have been "patient zero," but Medina said that possibility is "being examined." Two members of the clinic's medical staff fell prey to the unknown illness on Monday and Wednesday.
Between August 18 and 23, the first six patients began showing symptoms.
On Wednesday, Medina claimed the patients were diagnosed with "a serious respiratory illness with bilateral pneumonia... very similar to COVID" There was vomiting, high fever, diarrhea, and generalized body pains.
Four were in critical condition in the hospital, and two were under strict isolation at home, out of the six patients. The clinic's other employees were under surveillance, too.
Displaying Susceptibility To Infectious Agents
Specialists are also examining water and air conditioning systems to see if a hazardous or environmental factor is at play, such as the presence of Legionella bacteria in an air conditioning duct.
Health experts had emphasized that additional information is required "before ringing the alarm bell," even if the instances are reminiscent of the early days of the COVID-19 epidemic when officials scrambled to find the origin of inexplicable pneumonia in Wuhan.
Since Tuesday, the epidemic intelligence team at the European Center for Disease Control has been monitoring the swarm of cases. Another organization aware of the incidents is the World Health Organization.
Prof. Devi Sridhar, chair of global health at Edinburgh University and author of "Preventable," said,
“„It's alarming, but we still need important information on transmission and hopefully [on the] underlying cause.
This demonstrates how susceptible we all are too harmful infections. If a pandemic isn't stopped quickly, it can spread rapidly worldwide because it's easy for people to travel and trade goods worldwide.
Conclusion
Despite excluding COVID, influenza, and hantavirus as possible causes, more investigation is underway. Experts looked into the possibility that an infectious agent was to blame for the epidemic.
Still, they also kept open the possibility that "toxic or environmental reasons" were to blame.
Suleman Shah
Author
Suleman Shah is a researcher and freelance writer. As a researcher, he has worked with MNS University of Agriculture, Multan (Pakistan) and Texas A & M University (USA). He regularly writes science articles and blogs for science news website immersse.com and open access publishers OA Publishing London and Scientific Times. He loves to keep himself updated on scientific developments and convert these developments into everyday language to update the readers about the developments in the scientific era. His primary research focus is Plant sciences, and he contributed to this field by publishing his research in scientific journals and presenting his work at many Conferences.
Shah graduated from the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (Pakistan) and started his professional carrier with Jaffer Agro Services and later with the Agriculture Department of the Government of Pakistan. His research interest compelled and attracted him to proceed with his carrier in Plant sciences research. So, he started his Ph.D. in Soil Science at MNS University of Agriculture Multan (Pakistan). Later, he started working as a visiting scholar with Texas A&M University (USA).
Shah’s experience with big Open Excess publishers like Springers, Frontiers, MDPI, etc., testified to his belief in Open Access as a barrier-removing mechanism between researchers and the readers of their research. Shah believes that Open Access is revolutionizing the publication process and benefitting research in all fields.
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