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School H1N1 flu alert despite green light
MEXICO CITY ? JANUARY 22, 2012 - 6:03 PM - BLANCA VALADEZ
Elementary Valley College turned an "urgent notice" for parents to take preventive measures from Monday January 23 as masks or return to the children who have a cough or flu.
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Mexico City ? Although federal health officials and the City of Mexico has the green light, the different educational institutions have chosen to turn parents an "urgent notice" that they will take preventive measures such as use masks or return the children to have any symptoms of H1N1 influenza, or flu such as cough, regardless if it's this pandemic strain.
After Armando Osuna, Secretary of Health Federal District acknowledged two cases of the pandemic virus, turned Valley College Primary education "is communicated to all parents that due to the recent H1N1 flu cases reported in the Federal District ... preventive measures will be taken in order to avoid any contagion in our community.
"So starting next Monday January 23, 2012, no one will be admitted to any student who has symptoms of flu, cold or cough. Also the students who attend this campus must wear covered mouth.
Although the evaluations begin next Monday for the month of January, if their children have flu symptoms, please do not send them, the exams are rescheduled. "
It is not excessive because it alerts the authorities themselves in different states have reported cases in Mexico City, Queretaro, Puebla, BC, Edomex, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Morelos, Baja California Sur, Hidalgo, with more than 36 dead, and some public and private schools have been given the task of delaying classes in some municipalities.
The Health Ministry reported that Hidalgo had been closed four establishments where food outlets because they do not comply with the sanitary contingency established by the return of Influenza AH1N1 cases, the balance until the first half of January is 2 11 people dead and infected.
The Ministry of Health of Oaxaca was at "yellow alert" because of the number of cases of human H1N1 influenza not only rose to 57, but already saw the first death from the disease of a baby.
In 30 of the IMSS clinic in Mexicali, emergency rooms were evacuated as a precautionary measure because they presented a case with symptoms of H1N1. In Quer?taro analyzed 60 suspected cases of pandemic influenza.
In Laredo, Texas, where a child was confirmed as positive by the authorities in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, took precautionary measures to prevent suspected cases and outbreaks, and do not rule out the possibility that there may be incidents. And in Tabasco has a confirmed case of AH1N1 influenza.
One of the landmarks, which was instrumental in the pandemic alert of 2009 was the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER), where 50 patients remain hospitalized for serious complications from seasonal influenza disease and H1N1, and 25 intubated.
However, that number is almost the limit of the average attention given at this time of year, with increasing presence of respiratory disease between 20 and 30 percent. "We are in the winter season of influenza. We have influenza in the country. "We get cases with pneumonia, and outpatient cases also really nastier require hospital," said the director of INER, Rogelio P?rez Padilla Notimex.
Perez Padilla said that the common denominator of these patients is not being vaccinated, he urged to go to health centers and even INER getting vaccinated to avoid severe cases.
Most of those hospitalized are younger and older adults, therefore, reminded that risk groups are under six years old, adults over 55 and people with chronic illnesses or immunocompromised as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, HIV / AIDS and pregnancy.
Health authorities in Mexico have failed to detect new strains or considerable changes in the influenza virus.
According to the SSA in 2011 were reported 870 cases and 35 deaths from various influenza virus in the country, while in 2012 so far reported 181 cases and five deaths.
Health Unit Influenza monitors indicate that in the last week of 2011 four of every thousand visits were for influenza-like respiratory disease, which is below the international standards of 20 visits per thousand.
The most recent report of acute respiratory illness during 2011 until Jan. 13 is 25 million 720 thousand 346 cases.
The General Directorate of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health reported that last year there were 262 people infected, of whom 31 died.