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10/07/2009 - 15h55
Girl, 11 years is the first fatal victim of swine influenza in S?o Paulo
Rosanne D'Agostino
From UOL News
In Sao Paulo
A girl of 11 years who died at the end of June is the first fatal victim of avian A (H1N1) in S?o Paulo State, informed the Secretariat of Health of the State this Friday. This is the second death related to the disease in Brazil - the first was a truck driver in Rio Grande do Sul
The girl was hospitalized in a private hospital in Osasco and died on June 30. Two days before the girl felt abdominal pain and vomiting, with symptoms of the disease and was referred to the health unit.
Eventually released and returned with signs of septic shock the day he died because of a cardiorespiratory arrest. The swine flu was confirmed only after death.
The parents of the girl, her brother and a person close also showed signs of disease, but are good. The family is middle class and the children are enrolled in public schools, informed the Secretary of Health, Luiz Roberto Barradas Barata. He said the way the girl is contaminated is under investigation.
"We believe this was not the cause of death, but the flu helped it reduce the immune system, which was already compromised," the secretary said in press conference. He said the child suffered from other problems, including pneumonia, and has had low immunity.
The Secretary said that nothing will change on the policy to combat the disease in S?o Paulo. "The case shows that the state is on alert," he said.
According to relatives, the child does not go abroad nor had contact with patients with symptoms of influenza. On July 1, a brother of the child of 7 years, showed symptoms of flu and was taken to the Emilio Ribas Institute to be hospitalized in isolation. He was discharged with recommendation for home insulation.
Number of cases
The State of S?o Paulo registered so far 457 new cases of influenza. In total, five people are hospitalized. Following two in serious condition in ICU - one in the capital and another inside.
The result of the analysis in the child who died was ready on July 8 and was rechecado on 10. The Ministry of Health will be notified about it in this Friday, said the Secretariat.
Earlier, the Health Minister Jose Gomes Tempor?o, announced in Porto Alegre, the emergency release of $ 2 million to combat swine flu in Rio Grande do Sul The resources will be used to treat patients suspected of contamination and may be more according to need of the state.
Tempor?o ensured that the progress of the disease in Brazil, it counts 977 cases so far, will not change the strategy to fight the Ministry of Health "There is no evidence of a sustained increase of the transmission [of disease] now in the country. We continue with our policy of containment, although we can not exclude the possibility of an epidemic, "he said.
Source: http://noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano...t7403u152.jhtm
10/07/2009 - 15h55
Girl, 11 years is the first fatal victim of swine influenza in S?o Paulo
Rosanne D'Agostino
From UOL News
In Sao Paulo
A girl of 11 years who died at the end of June is the first fatal victim of avian A (H1N1) in S?o Paulo State, informed the Secretariat of Health of the State this Friday. This is the second death related to the disease in Brazil - the first was a truck driver in Rio Grande do Sul
The girl was hospitalized in a private hospital in Osasco and died on June 30. Two days before the girl felt abdominal pain and vomiting, with symptoms of the disease and was referred to the health unit.
Eventually released and returned with signs of septic shock the day he died because of a cardiorespiratory arrest. The swine flu was confirmed only after death.
The parents of the girl, her brother and a person close also showed signs of disease, but are good. The family is middle class and the children are enrolled in public schools, informed the Secretary of Health, Luiz Roberto Barradas Barata. He said the way the girl is contaminated is under investigation.
"We believe this was not the cause of death, but the flu helped it reduce the immune system, which was already compromised," the secretary said in press conference. He said the child suffered from other problems, including pneumonia, and has had low immunity.
The Secretary said that nothing will change on the policy to combat the disease in S?o Paulo. "The case shows that the state is on alert," he said.
According to relatives, the child does not go abroad nor had contact with patients with symptoms of influenza. On July 1, a brother of the child of 7 years, showed symptoms of flu and was taken to the Emilio Ribas Institute to be hospitalized in isolation. He was discharged with recommendation for home insulation.
Number of cases
The State of S?o Paulo registered so far 457 new cases of influenza. In total, five people are hospitalized. Following two in serious condition in ICU - one in the capital and another inside.
The result of the analysis in the child who died was ready on July 8 and was rechecado on 10. The Ministry of Health will be notified about it in this Friday, said the Secretariat.
Earlier, the Health Minister Jose Gomes Tempor?o, announced in Porto Alegre, the emergency release of $ 2 million to combat swine flu in Rio Grande do Sul The resources will be used to treat patients suspected of contamination and may be more according to need of the state.
Tempor?o ensured that the progress of the disease in Brazil, it counts 977 cases so far, will not change the strategy to fight the Ministry of Health "There is no evidence of a sustained increase of the transmission [of disease] now in the country. We continue with our policy of containment, although we can not exclude the possibility of an epidemic, "he said.
Source: http://noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano...t7403u152.jhtm
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