{"id":188516,"date":"2022-08-20T16:02:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T08:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=188516"},"modified":"2022-08-20T16:02:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T08:02:28","slug":"monkeypox-spreading-fast-reaches-37-cases-in-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=188516","title":{"rendered":"Monkeypox spreading fast, reaches 37 cases in Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/89764\/0x0\/viruviru.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/89764\/760x480\/viruviru.jpg\" alt=\"If this dynamic of contagions per day of monkeypox continues, in a few days there could be an explosion of cases, a leading epidemiologist told Xinhua \"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LA PAZ, Aug 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Monkeypox infections have soared in Bolivia at an average of two daily infections for a total of 37 cases by Thursday, it was reported in La Paz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spread has also reached 3 of the country&#8217;s 9 departments after 100% of the infections were only in Santa Cruz just 4 days before. By Aug 18, Santa Cruz had 35 cases, La Paz 1 and Potosi 1. No recovered patients have been reported yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After these announcements, health authorities have agreed to strengthen epidemiological surveillance and containment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first case of monkeypox in Bolivia was confirmed Aug 1 in Santa Cruz, a 38-year-old patient who was reported to be stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Epidemiologist Guillermo Cuentas said that, if this dynamic of contagions per day of monkeypox continues, in a few days there could be an explosion of cases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe daily numbers of monkeypox cases being reported are worrying. We must strengthen biosecurity measures, surveillance, control, and epidemiological blocking with the detection of suspected cases in a timely manner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National Director of Epidemiology Freddy Armijo said that they were working on containment to prevent any further spread of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Minister Jeyson Auza underlined that brigades had been deployed across 9 departments to up prevention, containment, and mitigation strategies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said that before the arrival of monkeypox emergency measures had already been implemented, such as the issuance of protocols and a handbook to coordinate procedures by departmental health services for timely treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolivia&#8217;s National Institute of Health Laboratories (INLASA) in La Paz, and the National Center for Tropical Diseases (CENETROP) in Santa Cruz, are fully equipped and supplied to detect monkeypox. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA PAZ, Aug 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Monkeypox infections have soared in Bolivia at an average of two daily infections for a total of 37 cases by Thursday, it was reported in La Paz. The spread has also reached 3 of the country&#8217;s 9 departments after 100% of the infections were only in Santa Cruz just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188519,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188516\/revisions\/188519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}