The Ministry of Public health reported this Saturday that to date it has no report of people affected with bite injuries of a type of tarantula known as brown spider, in the provinces of Mao and Monte Cristi, as has been circulated in some media.
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), are under permanent surveillance throughout the national territory, and until now they have no case reports. 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.
Similarly, Dr. Ronald Skewes, director of Epidemiology, said that to date, the epidemiologists of 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 there are no reports from the areas of Villa Vásquez, Las Matas de Santa Cruz, Laguna Salada, Hatillo Palma, Guayubín or Manzanillo, of the appearance of the brown spider, or of people affected by its bites.
At the same time, it urges the population to stay informed with the Ministry’s bulletins and official reports, which are offered in a timely manner, to avoid unnecessary alarms and unrest for the Dominican family.
