2nd fatality in Honduras

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Source: http://www.elnuevoherald.com/308/story/507878.html

Published on Wednesday, 07.29.09

Honduras reports second death from swine flu
The Associated Press

TEGUCIGALPA - Health authorities on Wednesday reported the second death of swine flu in Honduras.

"This is woman 36 years," he said in a press conference the director of Monitoring the Health Ministry, Marco Antonio Pinel. "We have no details, but confirmed that death from swine flu."

Reported that the victim lived in Alauca, about 150 kilometers east of Tegucigalpa.

The official said that doctors keep in close government surveillance in the area.

Pinel said 190 cases of the disease have been confirmed in the country, most inhabitants of the Atlantic coast.

The first case of influenza was announced on May 21 in San Pedro Sula, the second city in the north.

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Re: 2nd fatality in Honduras

Source: http://www.latribuna.hn/web2.0/?p=24393

The second confirmed death from influenza A (H1N1)
Porto, Porto Nationals July 29, 2009


TEGUCIGALPA .- The health authorities confirmed on Wednesday the second death of a person infected with influenza A (H1N1) in Honduras.

The victim was a young 32 years from Alauca, El Para?so.

The head of epidemiological surveillance Marco Pinel, said 21 new cases with the number of infected rising from 169 to 190 infections nationally, as the northern region where the largest impact.

The breakdown by city San Pedro Sula, registering 86 cases, ie 45 per cent of cases 26 Puerto Cortes, Tegucigalpa, 24 and Cop?n 10. Pinel said however that despite this sector in the Sula Valley tends to "diminish" the intensity of transmission, compared to other areas like the Central District, and Choluteca.

A consequence of this new death in the eastern sector of the country teams begin a strong local control operations to prevent the development of the outbreak not only for influenza but other diseases common in this time of year as dengue and malaria.

The first death was a couple of 23 years in a state of pregnancy from Santa Rosa de Copan.

Pinel said that "to handle the situation of the pandemic, it is important to identify new cases, and are spreading."

This new death coincides with the lack of drugs reported in the Hospital del T?rax again to alert the health authorities because it scarce reagents for testing in patients infected with influenza.

The virus, officially according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and killed 1.018 people in 163 countries, began to gain ground in Honduras, as the focal points for dealing with this disease are being devoid of inputs.