Reported in Cuba increased acute respiratory disease. The cause, the H1N1 virus

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Reported in Cuba increased acute respiratory disease.
Health - Tuesday, May 11 (11:33 hrs.)


The cause, the H1N1 virus
It affects 100 000 people per week in the country The online Financial

Havana, May 11 .- Cuban health officials warned today about the increasing cases of acute respiratory diseases and the H1N1 virus, which causes human influenza, detected about 100 000 per week in the country.

The deputy director of the Integrated Emergency Medical, Ricardo Pereda, reported that in February, March and April this year attended by more than 100 000 cases per week of such diseases, reflecting the increase in infectious morbidity.

The increase of cases of people ill in a given place and time he jumped in the last six weeks and it imposes the urgency of not overlooked at the existence of the pandemic virus, said the newspaper Juventud Rebelde.

"Not even those immunized may be neglected because the vaccine only guarantees 84 percent effective," the newspaper said Otto Pelaez, head of the Department of Communicable Diseases, Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP).

He recalled that only 10 percent of the population of 11.2 million people, the groups most at risk receive the antidote.

Cuba began on April 1st vaccination of 124 000 million people with Pandemrix of the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine against the H1N1 virus after receiving a donation of $ 10 million from the World Health Organization.

The head of Acute Respiratory Infections Program, Bureau of Epidemiology Ministry of Public Health, Maria Josefa Llanes, warned that compared with last year's flu activity in the country shows higher levels, especially in Havana. (With information from Notimex / MVC)

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Re: Reported in Cuba increased acute respiratory disease. The cause, the H1N1 virus

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Increased incidence of H1N1 virus
HAVANA, Cuba, June 3 (Carlos Rios Otero, www.cubanet.org), porcine influenza virus A (H1N1) has been uncovered on the eve of the summer in 10 of the 19 municipalities of the territory south of Havana and it is alarming incidence in El Cerro, Havana, acknowledged on 31 May, in a note, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP).

Due to increased acute respiratory disease beyond the predictable, "we must insist on the preventive factors in a call to maintain hygiene and go quickly to the doctor feverish flu-like symptoms," said officials of Hygiene and Public Health Ministry Epidemiology, doctors and Enrique Triana Guillermo Reyes, south of Havana and Havana, respectively.

Also, high incidence reported in the cities of Santiago de Cuba and Palma Soriano, in the east of the island

On the other hand, recognizes a large population of Egyptian Aedes mosquito, vector of dengue in the province of Granma and Santiago de Cuba. According to experts, dengue is now endemic in both territories, but health authorities do not recognize it officially.

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