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  • Portugal: flu already killed almost 40 persons this Winter

    On the contrary of the last Winter, in which all the eyes were put in the flu A, this year the virus continues the circular but it has been passing unnoticed. According to a swinging of the General-direction of the Health (DGS) 39 persons died already at least, most of which victim of the same stock of the virus H1N1 who was responsible for the first pandemia of this century and who was known like flu A.

    Even so, in a notice, the DGS explains what in the last weeks the grippal activity has been maintaining low and with decreasing tendency. ? Like what it is happening in the rest of Europe, the circulating viruses identified in Portugal, were, predominantly, an influenza of the type A (H1N1) 2009 ?, it explains the same note. The General-direction of the Health informs, also, that from the beginning of the grippal time 391 persons were already hospitalized, 155 of which in unities of intensive cares, being that in 95 per cent of the cases the virus responsible for the situation was the same of the flu A., they were even so made type 15 internamentos by infection of the virus B, two by the virus AH3 and four by a type A not specified. Along the Winter, the DGS has been coming to remember that ? the flu is a contagious disease what, in most of the times, it cures spontaneously. However, complications can appear, particularly in pregnant and in persons with you determine chronic diseases ?, because it is important that the groups of risk are vaccinated, as well as the professionals of health.

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