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AH1N1 sixth reported death
Health Ministry confirms two infections in school in Santiago.
Fri, 04/09/2009 - 05:35
Medical personnel examined students from a primary school campus. Photo: Joel Sampayo Monterrey .- The Secretary of Health in Nuevo Leon, Gilberto Montiel Amoroso, announced that according to latest figures, in the state total six victims because AH1N1 human influenza.
Until Aug. 18 there were 674 cases of infection, with four fatalities. Three days later were 52 cases, totaling 726 aggravated and was recorded the fifth deceased. The sixth death was confirmed on September 2, when the sum is of 879 cases.
These data represent, in the last 15 days, an increase of 205 confirmed cases in the state.
It was in May when he saw the first victim of the virus in the state, having nine confirmed cases. From then until now, the number of confirmed cases has increased by 870.
The most recent death from complications of the disease was a man of 49 years who died in a public hospital in the town of San Nicolas de los Garza.
"We have six confirmed deaths. The last one was this weekend a young person smoking 49 years with a very intense, but especially important with obesity, which remains a factor in what we are seeing patients that we are complicated, "said the secretary.
Nationally, until on September 21 thousand have been 857 confirmed cases of the virus around the Republic, of which 193 people have died.
Montiel Amoroso has also ruled that human influenza epidemic in a school in Santiago, as suspected a few days ago, as only two cases were confirmed.
He noted that they were tested with 45 students of a primary school in this county who allegedly contracted the virus AH1N1.
"To date we have only two confirmed, all the rest were other types of diseases," he said, attributing everything to a misdiagnosis of the teachers.
The state official recommended to parents in the case of small showing any symptoms of influenza of any type is better not to take them to school.
He noted that so far controlled the situation, but do not drop our guard, especially since now before the rainy season two risks together, the influenza and dengue.
"Remember that the rains are somehow pure gasoline: the larvae can live for a year in dormancy and now water them down, and that is gasoline for them, and mosquitoes come out again," he said.
He clarified that the campaign has been suspended rubbish removal, and that only 72 cases are reported, which is small compared with the 500 cases that had last year at this time.
Figures
The other threat
72 cases of dengue reported
68 of conventional type
4 of the hemorrhagic type
No case has required hospitalization
500 cases were recorded in 2008
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