A/H1N1 deaths reported in Santa Cruz Province

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Influenza A: one baby died in Santa Cruz
The baby suffered from epilepsy for two years and a lung infection, which was among the risk groups. There are 39 infected in the province.
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07.07.2009


A baby of two years died in Santa Cruz as a result of influenza A, becoming the first victim of this disease which is registered in that province.

Meanwhile, a man of 48 years died last Saturday in Caleta Olivia, in the northern province, two days after being placed in a private health center with a table similar to that of influenza A, but is awaiting the results of studies Malbr?n sent to the Institute of Buenos Aires to confirm whether he had the disease.

The small, he said, suffered from epilepsy and a severe respiratory infection, and therefore belonged to the so-called risk groups.

The official report released on Santa Cruz realized that in the province were confirmed 39 new cases of influenza, 20 of whom are from Rio Gallegos, two from El Calafate, Puerto San Juli?n seven, four of Caleta Olivia, four Puerto Deseado, and two of Commander Luis Piedrabuena.

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One dead in Santa Cruz

I informed the Undersecretary of Public Health of the province. This is a baby who died nearly two years in Rio Gallegos that he had epilepsy. There are 39 positive cases, of which 20 are of Rio Gallegos. Caleta Olivia waiting for the outcome of the sample sent to the Institute Malbr?n, a man of 48 years died Saturday in a private institute.

The province of Santa Cruz received a positive report of a deceased by comorbidities (epilepsy) with severe acute respiratory infections (IRAG), informed the Secretariat for Public Health in the daily reporting of Influenza A H1N1, which reports that the patient belonging to risk group are pregnant, which was given to two high and remains confined in a room. Meanwhile, an information published in the northern realizes that a man of 48 years who died on Saturday after spending two days at a private health care facility, was a suspected case of pandemic and expected results of samples sent to the Institute Malbr?n.

The official report of H1N1 Influenza A detailed that the province conducts epidemiological and virological surveillance of (IRAG), and that while IRAG not fall within the definition of suspected case is sampling and antiviral treatment, at which point it is Considering the positive report of a deceased.

Official sources confirmed the view that Austral was a baby almost two years, Rio Gallegos, who died in full seizure, since it was not responding to previous treatment for their condition, to which was added yesterday and a IRAG confirmed that also were infected with influenza A.

Regarding the information on the north, appeared yesterday on the website and Voice Memo with the signing of Marisa Vaucheret, and realizes that the Caleta Olivia died Saturday in a man, after remaining confined for two days a private clinic. This is Carlos Quiroga 48 years old, who was hospitalized on Thursday in a private clinic for a severe respiratory condition, a result of which died on Saturday, and given the current situation, samples were sent to Malbr?n.

Similarly, the director of the Zonal Hospital, doctor Ciolfi Diego, said that there are four confirmed cases of influenza A in Caleta Olivia to evolve favorably, but there is another person who is placed in the intensive therapy. The last official part in the noon broadcast yesterday said that 39 are confirmed cases of influenza A H1N1 in Santa Cruz, 20 of whom are from Rio Gallegos, 2 El Calafate, Puerto San Julian, 7, 4 Caleta Olivia 4 and 2 in Puerto Deseado Commander Luis Piedrabuena.

La Opini?n Austral (Santa Cruz)

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A baby of two years died in Santa Cruz as a result of influenza A, becoming the first victim of this disease which is registered in the province.

Meanwhile, a man of 48 years died last Saturday in Caleta Olivia, in the northern province, two days after being placed in a private health center with a table similar to that of influenza A, but is awaiting the results of studies Malbr?n sent to the Institute of Buenos Aires to confirm whether he had the disease.

The daily La Opini?n Austral, tasting official sources reported that a baby died almost two years in Rio Gallegos and then found he was infected with influenza A.

The small, he said, suffered from epilepsy and a severe respiratory infection, and therefore belonged to the so-called risk groups.

The official report released yesterday in Santa Cruz realized that in the province were confirmed 39 new cases of influenza, 20 of whom are from Rio Gallegos, two from El Calafate, Puerto San Juli?n seven, four of Caleta Olivia, four Puerto Deseado, and two of Commander Luis Piedrabuena...

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It was the first recorded death from influenza A in Santa Cruz

The Hopital Regional Rio Gallegos - Photo: Santa Cruz IPO
07/07 - 11:00 - It was yesterday in this capital. In the Hospital Regional Rio Gallegos saw the death of a baby who came to therapy for other pediatric pathology but also contracted the virus of influenza A.

As of yesterday, Santa Cruz joined the sad list of provinces died from influenza A, based on officially registered at the Hospital Regional Rio Gallegos the death of a baby a year and eight months that he had entered therapy for pediatric a disease unrelated to influenza, but these days it contracted disease and died from this disease, becoming the first victim in Santa Cruz.

Another death that have occurred in the last hour north, is not yet proven to be influenza A, this does not exclude this possibility, which is awaiting corroboration from the analysis sent to the Institute Malbr?n . In this capital city, therefore, remain at least one person at risk of death attached to a respirator and two others also connected, but located within the critical box.

The last part of the Secretariat of Health of the province yielded 39 positive cases of influenza A. Remember that Argentina is the second country listed in the list of infected countries in Latin America, below Chile, but still less than half of sick people, in 7342 Chile and Argentina in 2485, the neighboring country recorded 14 deaths while in Argentina has at least 60 people died.

In Santa Cruz, also at this time, the Secretary for Health Dr Sergio Vucovick is isolated in his family to be affected by Influenza A. Agency (IPA Santa Cruz)
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THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH IS AT YOUR DOOR FOR INSULATED case of another suspected case of influenza A

First confirmed victim of influenza A in Santa Cruz

The first victim of the virus A (H1N1) in Santa Cruz is a child of two years. Little suffered from epilepsy and a severe respiratory illness - which integrates a high-risk group - and contracted the disease. As reported by doctors, his death - which occurred on Monday in Rio Gallegos - was caused by the combination of its base with the pathology of influenza A. Investigating causes of two other deaths.

Caleta Olivia (agency)

The information was given on the same day the provincial secretariat of Health was too short. Spoke of a death of a positive case for comorbidities (epilepsy) with severe acute respiratory infections (IRAG).

The child had died in full seizure since he was not responding to treatment for his condition earlier.

The official report that the province conducts detailed epidemiological and virological surveillance of (IRAG), and that while IRAG not fall within the definition of suspected case is sampling and antiviral treatment.

Furthermore, it transpired that swab samples were sent to the Institute Malbr?n of two people killed this weekend to see if the cause of their deaths have any relation to influenza A.

One of these cases corresponds to an operator of oil 49 years of age, who worked at Pico Truncado, who died on Saturday in a private sanatorium in Caleta Olivia as a result of pneumonia that plagued it for several days and made a medical late.

The other deaths for which samples were sent to Malbr?n occurred in Gallegos. This is a man of 38 years who was interned in the regional hospital last Wednesday and died on Saturday.

Analysis of samples of two deceased elderly could be at 5 or 7 days.

Also, from the Caleta Zonal Hospital, indicated that there are four confirmed cases of influenza A in the city, "evolving favorably," although there are other people accused as "suspected cases" that are placed in the care sector intensive.

As for pregnant patients who are in the hospital in the capital Santa Cruz, it was reported that two high and remains in a room.

Officials INSULATED

Moreover, the undersecretary of Health, Santa Cruz, Sergio Vukovic confirmed to a newspaper in Rio Gallegos to be a suspected case of influenza A. Since Sunday, the officer is at home in "respiratory isolation and treatment with Tamiflu (oseltamivir).

On Monday the Minister of Social Affairs, Mat?as Maz?, replaced him at the meeting of COFESA (Consejo Federal de Salud), which was held in Buenos Aires with all holders of Public Health of the country.

Just at that reunion Maz? Minister was accompanied by the director of epidemiology in the province, Graciela Algorry.

The official recalled that now goes to a 'phase of mitigation "and stressed that many measures will be taken now in other provinces are already under way in Santa Cruz as the" precautionary closures of sites where people concur in bulk, "so that" all of the recommendations made, we were already a step forward. "

The holder of the Ministry of Social Affairs said that it will continue to supply Oseltamivir "to all patients with acute severe infection requiring hospitalization, regardless of the evolution of symptoms, and suspect cases which belong to a risk group."

Potential hazards TRAVEL

On the other hand, the minister expressed concern that many people in this province do not take the necessary break in the winter. Many have taken it as a vacation, and traveling as usual tourist places.

At the stations in Rio Gallegos commented on Thursday that airlines go to Buenos Aires were saturated passengers.

Something that shows that there is a palpable awareness of the danger zone to move to an epidemiological risk as the metropolitan area.

Moreover, it is not that people living in Buenos Aires took their precautions, ignoring the recommendation not to travel, tourism officials because of El Calafate, as Ana Ianni, commented that "following the holiday of July 9 many people have decided to come "and that the flights are almost full for Thursday, Friday and Saturday."

However, Ianni, director of the municipal Tourism, said that it is taking all the precautions of hygiene in hotels and restaurants in the tourist village, which previously had a meeting with traders.

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Less than two years died root virus A (H1N1) in Rio Gallegos
Posted at 10:40 am

hospitalgallegosLa province of Santa Cruz received a positive report of a dead comorbidities (epilepsy) with severe acute respiratory infections (Irag), informed the Secretariat for Public Health in the daily report of the virus A (H1N1), which realized that there is also a patient who belongs to risk group of pregnant women, of whom were discharged.
Official sources confirmed the view that the South is a dead baby in two years, Rio Gallegos, who ceased to exist in full seizure, since it was not responding to treatment for his condition earlier.
The last official part that released detailed 39 cases are confirmed by human influenza in Santa Cruz, 20 of whom are from Rio Gallegos, two from El Calafate, Puerto San Juli?n seven, four of Caleta Olivia, Puerto Deseado four and two Commander Luis Piedrabuena.
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Public Health confirms another victim of Influenza A in Santa Cruz
Saturday, July 11, 2009

No further information is required, but states that the deceased was a native of the town of Las Heras.
On the other hand were the cases of people already diagnosed with the H1N1 virus. The results, at the provincial level, the following laboratory

Positive: 43
Negatives: 26
Earrings: 349

Of the total of positive cases is mentioned that 35 people are placed in a common room while 16 remain in the intensive care unit.
It is recalled that on July 6 reported the first positive report of receipt of a deceased by comorbidities (epilepsy) more IRAG.
Comorbidity is the simultaneous presence of two or more tables morbid (disease), while IRAG is an acronym that identifies severe acute respiratory insufficiency.
The IRAG may be caused by various causes: infectious, toxic, traumatic, neurological, cardiovascular, etc.
The report "positive" that the Institute has sent Malbr?n and to which he referred, is a person of almost two years, entered the internment in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Hospital Regional, with a picture of a product IRAG bilateral pneumonia. It took swab samples and was started on antiviral treatment. In the evolution of the fifth day, has a cardio respiratory arrest in connection with a convulsive table.

Receiving the results of the Inst Malbr?n and informed the family, was published in Part 21 of the July 6, as a death in association with Influence A (H1N1) in the context of the pandemic by the virus.

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YA SON DOS. The last case recorded in the HERAS

Another confirmed death from influenza A in Santa Cruz

Occurred on Friday in the town of Las Heras, although no details were released. So add two deaths due to influenza in the province, the first of which occurred last week in Rio Gallegos.

Caleta Olivia (agency)

In the report that was released to the average Friday afternoon, the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Holy Cross confirmed the death of another person in this province as a result of influenza A. The same happened in the town of Las Heras, although no details were released about the age, sex and other circumstances of the victim.

And consequently also two deaths due to influenza in the province, recalling that the first one occurred last week in Rio Gallegos, for a child who also suffered from another disease.

Also, through the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry announced that the total number of cases of people affected by the H1N1 virus reaching 43 (including two deaths), but there is still pending the results of other laboratory samples 349 of patients who were sent to specialized institutions.

Of those affected, 16 are placed in intensive care units.

At the same time it was recalled that the Province of Santa Cruz, since last July 8, moved from the containment phase of the mitigation, which means that any person suffering from the flu with more than 38 degrees of body temperature is immediately treated as if you were affected by the influenza virus.

It is recalled that all the municipalities of Santa Cruz adopted preventive measures to counteract the progression of influenza A.

In some cases, as happened in El Calafate, Rio Gallegos and Caleta Olivia, were banned activities in clubs, apart from adoption of other measures restricting the agglomeration of people suggested by health departments in public offices and shop-care daytime and evening.

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Influenza continues to progress N1 H1 Print E-Mail
Sunday July 12 2009, 20:52

ImageYa are two people died. Santa Cruz (43 positive cases) is the 6th most situations province.

With two dead and 16 placed in intensive care Santa Cruz province is the sixth most cases in Argentina. If the child died at the Regional Hospital of this city, just two years as a result of the Influenza A, joined him in the final hours of a person in the town of Las Heras, although not so far transcended details.
So far, statistics show that amounted to 43 positive cases of influenza A in Santa Cruz. According to the last part issued by the Undersecretary of Health there are 43 cases positive, 26 negative samples and 349 who expect their results.
In the latter part of the health portfolio that the province of Santa Cruz went to the mitigation phase of July 8, like the rest of the country except CABA, Buenos Aires and La Plata, which already were. The definition of a suspected case at this stage is for anyone present acute febrile respiratory illness (over 38 ? C) in a spectrum ranging from influenza-like illness to pneumonia.
According to data submitted by the Ministry of Health of the Nation, Santa Cruz 6th position in the ranking of districts with the largest number of positive cases of influenza A, which is led by the Federal Capital with 975 cases, followed by Buenos Aires province, Tierra del Fuego, Santa Fe, and then Neuqu?n province. Argentina currently has the 2677 positive cases and a hundred deaths.

KEY RECOMMENDATIONS AND MEASURES FOR PREVENTION

Health authorities stress that prevention measures are DALY hands with soap and water or alcohol gel, often in the day
(10 or more); Cover mouth and nose when sneezing with a tissue and dispose of discarded immediately, or sneeze on the fold of the elbow; Ventilate the rooms every day, often sanitize the contact surfaces: tables, monthly, desks, keyboards, doorknobs, etc., avoid contact with persons with respiratory symptoms, avoid travel to risk areas.

INFECTION CONTROL MEASURES IN THE HOME

In the presence of a flu patient at home is recommended to those who are not essential to care for or assist the patient should not enter the home while patients have the flu.
If there are persons who must enter the home, she recommends avoiding close contact with the patient. The patient will have to use chinstrap. We do not recommend wearing gloves and dust for those who care to patients at home.
Dirty dishes and utensils should be washed either in a dishwasher or by hand with warm water and soap. It is not necessary to separate the utensils used by a patient with influenza.
Clothes can be washed in a normal washing machine with warm or cold water and soap powder. No need to wash separately or bedding used by another patient with influenza. Must handle with care the laundry (eg, no "hugging" to it) to avoid contamination.
Must sanitize their hands after handling soiled clothing. The scarves worn by a patient should be placed in a bag and discarded with other household waste. Consider placing a bag solely for that purpose at the bedside.

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This is indicated STATISTICS Since the OPERATIONA PREVENTION OF SECRETARY OF HEALTH

Ten deaths confirmed influenza A in Santa Cruz

The Secretariat for Public Health in Santa Cruz confirmed that since the beginning of the prevention plan in the province ten people died as a result of the pandemic influenza A.

Caleta Olivia (agency)

The statistics reported to show that influenza A killed five people in Rio Gallegos, and a person in Las Heras, as in Pico Truncado, El Calafate Caleta Olivia and Puerto Deseado.

The results received from the Institute Malbr?n "refers to patients who attended his illness about a month ago, so it is unrelated to the resumption of classes," said Undersecretary of Health, Sergio Vuckovic.

At the same time, reported that of 221 positive cases, 210 had good results (they are all at home) and placed in a continuing intensive care (with risk factors) in the capital Santa Cruz. But also spread down the number of consultations for respiratory diseases in hospitals in this province.

On the other hand, added that on Friday, 7 met the Federal Health Council (COFESA) in Buenos Aires. In this field we shared the situation of each province, there is widespread agreement in the abrupt decline in the number of cases and consultations for flu, "and was also a clear need to maintain such a level of alert to respond to possible new peaks of the pandemic outbreak. "

In the province of Santa Cruz since the epidemiological week 24 to date 4532 reported 962 influenza and pneumonia. Are distributed as follows: in the south 2120 cases of influenza, pneumonia and 526 in the center, 408 and 79 cases of influenza and influenza in the northern 2004 and 357 cases of influenza pneumonia.

Of the samples sent to the Institute Malbr?n, in addition to the 221 positive results for influenza A, 70 were negative and are pending analysis of swab samples from 253 patients from Santa Cruz.

PREVENTING MAINTAINING

The Provincial Council of Education and the Ministry of Social Affairs issued a statement with recommendations to "maintain and strengthen standards of prevention" in schools.

For school children it is recommended to wash hands with soap and water or use alcohol gel frequently use disposable paper to dry your hands, cover your mouth and nose with a disposable tissue or your elbow, when sneezing or coughing.  Do not touch eyes, nose and mouth with your hands, do not take objects in their mouths,  not share food, drinks, cups, plates and cutlery.

At the same time, the cleaning staff in school buildings have an agenda to strengthen the control of hygiene, maintain classrooms aerated (between shifts) and clean.

It was also recommended to sanitize water and lavandin (at a rate of 5 cubic centimeters of lavandin for every liter of water), desks, doorknobs, handrails and other objects of daily use in schools, among other provisions.

It is also the current Ministerial Resolution 1890-09, extending the "special preventive leave of public employees under the Contingency Plan by the Provincial which" anyone who belongs to groups: pregnancy, cancer treatment , treatment in immunocompromised and diabetic insulin-dependent, will leave until August 14 (inclusive).