"I do not know what happened, my granddaughter seemed cold and died from one day to the next."

A few hours ago Atilio Troncoso buried his sister Celio Troncoso (64), whom he occasionally saw and loved in such a contradictory and not always clear way that the brothers were offered each other. It comes from too many days. On December 3, he did the same with his granddaughter, Camila Troncoso (14), a granddaughter, whom he and his wife, Grabila Márquez, really considered as their real daughter.

The hurricane went through the lives of both, who took almost everything. Now he could start crying in front of the camera and journalists, but he decided to joke. One by one. Small jokes, characteristic for the fellow, who now act as a painkiller. In the comfortable living room of his house, built half a hectare of land, he and his wife stood by scarf and laughter, although they would long to cry down until they disappeared. The lady uses sweet words to talk about her "beloved little granddaughter", her lips open in grimaces, she sees nothing, and suddenly her eyes are filled with tears.

"We do not understand what happened, and I do not know if someone understands what is happening. My granddaughter had a headache, she had a little fever, her body hurt, she looked as cold and died from one day to the next, "says the man.

Camilla was one of more than 30 teenagers who attended the 15th birthday in Pehumayen's room, about 800 meters away from where their grandparents live on November 10th. "After the party, he spent the day here a minute and left." It was good, as always. We have not seen him here again. They survived for 15 days, then he became ill. It's unusual that neither the mother nor her younger brother got it, "says Grandma.

Camilla's mother initially thought that it was a flu, as for many other, common and current images. Therefore, she first accompanied her to routine exams first with doctors in Epuyénu, then in El Bolsón and finally to Esquel, the largest city in the area. They moved by walking or in vehicles without taking any precautionary measure, even though the hantavirus is endemic and Symptoms of symptoms are maintained during the summer months.

"I saw her again when she was seriously ill, hospitalized, I went to Esquel Hospital and went to intensive therapy and stayed with her," says Atilio. The story is astonishing, as it reveals the complete absence of a security protocol for relatives and acquaintances of patients in the early days of an outbreak. "Not only that I was without a mask, they all had such faces with nothing, doctors, nurses, everyone," emphasizes the man.

Troncoso says that her sister visited her in intensive therapy, but with a mask. Take the opportunity and explain another strange fact, his sister rarely went out. "She had no contact with Camila, no one, never left home, we saw little," she continues.

The official version supported by both the Chubut health system and some doctors in Cordillera is that on 13 November the case was confirmed 0: Víctor Díaz, who attended the 10th of May 15th where he would infect other people. Diaz was saved and today he lives in isolation. His wife died.

Are infected adolescents the first litter of carriers? Atilio and Grabila are not sure. They also do not make sense in the hypothesis of patient 0. Nobody explained them too much. "The wrong information is very large and the province did nothing. Never came a doctor here, an official, nobody came to talk to us, and that our granddaughter and my sister are dead," says Atilio. and they try to check every case. Also, the sanitary authorities Chubuta and Río Negro have not been mobilized, nor did the number of affected yesterday reach 26. "I stopped listening to the radio, which makes me very bad because the landscape does not stop talking to come , that there is a prevention that there is an obstacle that everything is and that it is a lie tHave you seen anything in a city that looked like surveillance? No, "he points out.

The necessary laughter disappeared for a few seconds. Grabbins pick up tears with a white handkerchief. Are they infected? "I do not believe that I do not know, nobody asked me for the exam," explains the grandfather.