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It was confirmed the first case of hantavirus in the metropolitan
This is a woman of 20 years.
You are admitted to the Hospital San Jos?.
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The woman was referred to the Hospital San Jos?.
A woman in her 20s, whose name was withheld, became the first case of hantavirus in the metropolitan area during the 2009, as confirmed by the Health Seremi.
The affected are admitted to the Hospital San Jose, according to initial reports, conducted in a recreational mountain skirts of Lampa in late October and early November, but only last Friday of complications of their symptoms led to hospitalization.
This was said Fernando Fuenzalida, responsible for Epidemiological Monitoring of hantavirus in the Metropolitan Health Seremi, who also gave recommendations to prevent transmission.
"I always insist people should go camping allowed, where a permanent vector control, where the waste is deposited where it should be. They are sites that meet the conditions and basic preventive measures," he said.
Between 2001 and 2009 in the metropolitan area have confirmed 30 cases of hantavirus infection and nine deaths. This year we are 25 people infected in the country and eight others that have died of the virus product