Case Report: Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome Diagnostic in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) is an emerging rodent-borne disease in the Americas. The most common initial symptoms of HCPS are similar to those of COVID-19 and other respiratory infections that evolve rapidly to respiratory failure, resulting from pulmonary edema and shock in about 40% of cases. We describe a fatal case of HCPS in a 24-year-old man who was hospitalized with fever, hemoconcentration, thrombocytopenia, leukocytosis, dry cough and a bilateral diffuse alveolar pulmonary infiltrate during the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. HCPS needs to be ruled out in patients with clinical manifestations compatible with respiratory infections such as influenza and COVID-19.

Melhoria habitacional para o controle da doença de chagas na região noroeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul / Residential improvement for the chagas disease control in the northeast area of Rio Grande do Sul

A via de transmissão mais importante da doença de Chagas é vetorial intradomiciliar, através do triatoma infestans principal vetor responsável pela transmissão desta doença no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. A melhoria habitacional é uma medida de controle adequada para esta região, pois as condições específicas de moradia, ou seja, os inúmeos anexos em más condições no peridomicílio, garantem as condições ideais para o desenvolvimento deste vetor