Cases of fever, pneumonia, septicaemia, hysteria and psychotic breaks are all on the rise, according to health workers.
They point to a huge rise in cases of "fever", peaking in October at more than 200,000 a week, seven times the normal number.At the height of the chikungunya outbreak, doctors in Aragua state, west of Caracas, called for a health emergency to be declared after eight patients with rashes and haemorrhaging died in a regional hospital.
These were once an important tool of social control but in recent years have been reduced to near irrelevance.The committees, which are staffed mainly by Communist Party activists and retired busybodies, have been ordered to monitor the temperature of every resident and report any cases of fever to their superiors.
Cases of fever were significantly higher in households with non-educated (31.2%) than educated respondents (21.5%).
Figure 1 Number of daily reported cases of fever, cough and malaise.
During this first trimester, there were no cases of fever, documented infection, or pelvic pain requiring further care.
Conclusion: In adults undergoing thoracic and upper abdominal surgery, postoperative use of an oscillating PEP device resulted in fewer cases of fever and shorter hospital stay.
She told me: "The Ebola treatment centres have a protocol for treating cases of fever with anti-malarial drugs too, because the patient might be suffering from both diseases.
Congo's Ministry of Health was notified Saturday of 26 cases of fever "with hemorrhagic signs" that included 20 deaths in Beni, a city in the northeast province of North Kivu.
