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  • Honduras - Cases of A-H1N1

    TEGUCIGALPA. - The red alert turned to light again in the Hospital School yesterday morning, when there entered a man suspicious of suffering influenza A-H1N1 to the emergency room.
    Personnel, patients and doctors were alarmed by the revenue of the suspicious patient with A-H1N1 and chosen to be covered with the masks.
    Carlos Nahum Hern?ndez (34) original of Choluteca, was presenting a feverish state for at least three days from what School was sent to the Hospital.
    Yesterday about 9:20 a.m., the man was deposited to the welfare center, immediately the doctors it examined and verified that his fever was high and immediately they delivered masks or slaps to the patients who were remaining in the area.
    The people were alarmed and he was asking why the protectors were delivering them, many of the doctors were quiet but others told that it was a question of a suspicious case of influenza A-H1N1. It was known that the state of health was serious and that he would have to be supported in strict medical supervision and they will practise several clinical examinations on him.

    ? They will do to him the tests for leptospirosis, fastidiousness and H1N1, but I more believe that it is a question of the virus of the influenza for the symptomatology that it presents ?, said a source of entire credit to THE TRIBUNE. Nevertheless, it will be even in a few hours that he will meet what the illness of the man is.
    But the patients who were in the Hospital ran to buying masks to avoid to be contagious with any mortal illness.
    The people ran to buying the slaps to be protected.
    During the world epidemic of the influenza or porcine flu about 16 deaths were brought in Honduras. The epidemic of the influenza began in May on a global scale and in the country the first death was brought on June 22, 2009.



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    Re: Suspected Case of A-H1N1

    Confirmed 5 new cases of flu A

    TEGUCIGALPA. - Five confirmed cases of Influenza A (H1N1), better acquaintance as ? porcine flu ?, were brought between the last week of September and the first days of this month in the capital of the country. The patients reside in Tegucigalpa and they were attended in the National Institute Cardiopulmonar (Thorax). The information was confirmed by the director of the hospital, Ren? Cubas.
    The authorities confirmed the existence of five cases of influenza A H1N1 in the capital.
    The doctors told that the "porcine one" did not affect severely the patients, since one gave them a rapid and effective treatment, nevertheless, they are still in observation for any contingency.
    ? There have been cases of A (H1N1), also her A (H5N3) has been unfortunately present in those patients who have base pathologies ?, said to THE TRIBUNE the director of the Thorax, Ren? Cubas.

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    • #3
      Re: Honduras - Cases of A-H1N1



      Spanish to English translation

      Nearly 200 cases of "swine flu" were reported in 2010

      National December 9, 2010
      TEGUCIGALPA .- About 171 cases of influenza A H1N1 have occurred in the country so far this year, officials of the Ministry of Health. This disease most cases presented during February and April.

      The head of the Epidemiology Section of the Secretariat, Thomas Guevara, said were a series of vaccination campaigns and prevention, and thus managed to reduce the incidence.


      February and April were the most critical months in the swine flu was mischief in the country.
      Established that the final report of H1N1 was reported in August, when a native of southern Honduras was taken to a hospital in the city. Days after admission was also recorded four more people, but none of the cases reported complications.

      Guevara also specified that there have been cases of H3N5 influenza. "At least 183 cases in 2010 and the peak was during July and August, but that was not controlled and there were more."

      The experts state that these cases are the result of the remnants of the epidemic that hit the country in 2009. In that year there were 17 deaths in Honduras confirmed by the Ministry of Health.

      This virus was known as "swine flu", but the World Health Organization (WHO) called H1N1 and was only in August this year that this same organization declared an end to the disease. Indicated that left some 19 000 victims worldwide, especially in Mexico where the first cases were discovered.

      Symptoms of the disease are similar to those of seasonal flu: fever of 38 to 40 degrees, malaise, body aches, headache, fatigue, loss of appetite and breathing problems.

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