Source: http://elnuevodiario.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=162590
2/8/2009
956 thousand and 154 suspected cases confirmed
It rises to five deaths per influenza AH1N1
SANTO DOMINGO .- Two other people died of H1N1 flu in the country, which amount to five the number of fatalities caused by the virus, while a total of 956 thousand cases are suspected, and confirmed 154, of whom 53 have been hospitalized, according to the latest bulletin of the General Directorate of Epidemiology of Public Health.
The agency does not specify details about the two latest victims of the flu, or the location of the health center where he died. Precise in its newsletter that in at least 15 provinces have reported 19 confirmed cases of AH1N1, with the majority in the National District, and the province with 78 Santo Domingo 30.
Epidemiological Department of Public Health indicates that Santiago had 8 cases reported in La Altagracia, 6, San Cristobal, 5; Peravia, 4, and La Vega, Puerto Plata, 3, in El?as Pi?a, Mar?a Trinidad S?nchez, 1.
The previous deaths reported by authorities were identified as Lauri Esther Lopez Herrera, 25, who was 25 weeks pregnant, a teenager of 17 years, including a pregnant woman of 50 who had been diagnosed with pneumonia.
Author: Valdez France
2/8/2009
956 thousand and 154 suspected cases confirmed
It rises to five deaths per influenza AH1N1
SANTO DOMINGO .- Two other people died of H1N1 flu in the country, which amount to five the number of fatalities caused by the virus, while a total of 956 thousand cases are suspected, and confirmed 154, of whom 53 have been hospitalized, according to the latest bulletin of the General Directorate of Epidemiology of Public Health.
The agency does not specify details about the two latest victims of the flu, or the location of the health center where he died. Precise in its newsletter that in at least 15 provinces have reported 19 confirmed cases of AH1N1, with the majority in the National District, and the province with 78 Santo Domingo 30.
Epidemiological Department of Public Health indicates that Santiago had 8 cases reported in La Altagracia, 6, San Cristobal, 5; Peravia, 4, and La Vega, Puerto Plata, 3, in El?as Pi?a, Mar?a Trinidad S?nchez, 1.
The previous deaths reported by authorities were identified as Lauri Esther Lopez Herrera, 25, who was 25 weeks pregnant, a teenager of 17 years, including a pregnant woman of 50 who had been diagnosed with pneumonia.
Author: Valdez France
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