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Paraguayan authorities reported on Monday the first case of Chikungunya virus in the country after a citizen got infected in the Dominican Republic.
An official communiqué by the country’s Health Ministry explained that a Paraguayan citizen returned to the country six days after he began to feel the symptoms, which included fever and pains in his joints, and he looked for specialized assistance.
The citizen’s attitude allowed health specialists to take measures and avoid the spread of the disease, reads the communiqué cited by PL news agency.
The person was clinically analyzed and doctors considered he did not run any risk of complication, so he did not need hospitalization. However, the Health Ministry alerted that the risk of a Chikungunya epidemic in Paraguay is high and called on travelers to take into account all precautions to lower such risk.
According to the Pan-American Health Organization, the number of suspected Chikungunya cases in the continent has increased to over 185 thousand, with 21 deaths, up to last June 20 since the virus was first detected in this part of the world in December 2013.
The organization says that imported cases of the virus have been detected in Panama, Cuba, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru and the United States and that a concentration of the virus exists in the Dominican Republic with nearly 90 thousand suspected cases.
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