SANTO DOMINGO.- The Ministry of Public Health reported this Saturday that to date it has no reports of people affected by bites from a type of tarantula known as a brown spider, in the provinces of Mao and Monte Cristi, as has been circulated in some media outlets.
Reports that both the Center for the Prevention and Control of Diseases Transmitted by Vectors and Zoonoses (CECOVEZ), and the General Directorate of Epidemiology (DIGEPI), remain under permanent surveillance throughout the national territory, and until now they do not have reports of cases that alter the corresponding alarms; and they have no record of patients affected by spider bites.
Dr. Ángel Solís, in charge of Entomology and Vector Control, said that in the regular supervision operations, carried out by that department during the recent week, in the aforementioned localities, the presence has not been reported from any public or private health center. of a patient of Dominican or Haitian nationality affected by tarantula bites.
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Similarly, Dr. Ronald Skewes, director of Epidemiology, said that to date, epidemiologists in Mao, Monte Cristi and Dajabón, have not notified that address of the appearance of cases linked to the bite of the aforementioned spider.
The Ministry of Public Health reports weekly on the institutional portal and its social networks the national epidemiological bulletin, where the appearance of relevant health cases is transparently recorded, based on the mandatory reports that must be notified to DIGEPI and CECOVEZ, by public and private health centers in the country, without notification of the aforementioned issue.
In that sense, to date they have no reports of the zones of VVilla Vasquez, Las Matas de Santa Cruz, Laguna Salada, Hatillo Palma, Guayubín or Manzanillo, of the appearance of the brown spider, nor of people affected by their bites.
At the same time, it urges the population to stay informed with the bulletins and official reports of the Ministry, which are offered in a timely manner, to avoid unnecessary alarms and uneasiness for the Dominican family.
