A 21-year-old woman died of oropouche fever in the city of Camamu, on the southern coast of Bahia, on May 10. It is the second death from the disease documented in the state, according to the Bahia State Health Department (Sesab).
The victim had no comorbidities and was not pregnant. The death was recorded in Itabuna, a municipality 436 km from the capital Salvador.
She had presented initial symptoms such as fever, pain behind the eyes, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and pain in the lower limbs.
However, the diagnosis evolved to more serious signs such as red and purple spots on the body, severe bleeding, drowsiness and vomiting with hypotension and a sudden drop in hemoglobin and platelets.
The death was only announced on June 17th due to analyses by the Technical Chamber for Analysis of Deaths of the Epidemiological Surveillance Directorate, a Bahian government agency, to determine whether it had been a case of oropouche fever.
The state had already recorded the first death of another woman, aged 24, from the disease on March 27, in the city of Valença. The victim had presented the same symptoms and progressions as the woman who died in May.
Bahia recorded 835 confirmed cases of oropouche in 2024, according to Sesab. The municipalities of Ilhéus (110), Gandu (82) and Uruçuça (68) lead the diagnoses of the fever in the state this year.
Source: CNN Brasil
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