Peruvian authorities declared a 90-day emergency over an “unusual increase” in Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a disorder that is linked to certain vaccines, the Zika virus, COVID-19, and other viruses, according to reports.
President Dina Booluarte issued a decree over the weekend that about $3.2 million will be used to improve patient care, increase control on detections, and other measures, the Peruvian health ministry said in a social media post. Emergency measures include acquiring intravenous immunoglobulin and human albumin, manufactured from human plasma.
“Government declares health emergency due to unusual increase in cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome,” said the ministry on Facebook.
The unusual decrease in cases of the rare disease “negatively affects the continuity of health services, as there are not enough strategic resources to respond to the volume and complexity of the cases in the different health facilities,” said the decree, which was published in the Peruvian government’s official gazette, according to MercoPress, a newswire service….