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    They serve only 22 cases of severe influenza

    The hospital director said they are more or less the same patients in the 2009 pandemic, but less intubated

    MEXICO CITY, January 26 .- The director of the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER), Rogelio P?rez Padilla reported that 80 patients are currently admitted to the institution for suspected influenza, while 22 remained intubated.

    "In terms of inpatients are more or less the same as we have in the pandemic, but we have far fewer intubated, in fact almost half of what we had in 2009," he compared.

    This indicates, Perez Padilla said that the virus is less aggressive this season.

    But he warned that the common denominator among patients who have had to penetrate is that most, nearly all, have not been vaccinated.

    "A influenza should never trust him, the vaccination is something you have to rescue more, you have to vaccinate more people in addition to traditional measures of protection and care such as washing hands," said

    In an interview with Excelsior , the director of INER explained that since early January, Hall 5 accredited institution for the care of patients with flu symptoms that have required hospitalization, right where we worked with the 2009 pandemic, in which it has 30 beds.

    "Since January this year when we began to see the increase in cases. The truth is that it was growing and in the last four days we have had about 80 inpatients and do it at this time (Hall 5) is for influenza, "he said after ruling toes as this is within normal parameters school in winter.

    He added, there are patients in intensive care, emergency, and some more in other wards of the institute.

    According to P?rez Padilla, another characteristic they share is that hospitalized patients have a disease such as diabetes and who are between 20 and 60 years

    "We have had few children, we see more or less a similar distribution in the pandemic with a tendency for middle-aged people," he said.

    So far in the Institute, said there have been four deaths from H1N1 so far this month, the last four days, but in general the prevailing situation "is less and less dead intubated" he summarized.

    Call to remain vigilant

    Asked the population, however, remain vigilant and recommended for vulnerable groups-children aged six months to five years, adults over 60 years, pregnant women and people with chronic conditions like diabetes and morbid obesity-the vaccine.

    "I do insist much on vaccinating people, because it is a concrete action that has demonstrated efficacy," he reiterated.

    It should be noted that since October the Ministry of Health made available to the population of 22.4 million doses of vaccine, of which so far have been implemented around 65 percent.

    Urge to get vaccinated

    Health authorities have revealed, however, that vaccination has focused primarily on children and not at all vulnerable groups.

    Still have highlighted the fact that European countries vaccination coverage or do not reach 50 percent after one season.

    The latest report from the Ministry of Health reported 637 cases of all subtypes of influenza, 573 of them corresponding to the strain of the H1N1 virus.

    The law requires reporting all suspected

    The more than 25 000 health units in the country, public and private, should a mandatory reporting suspected cases of influenza to their respective health districts, in order to take control of the disease epidemiology.

    In turn, the state public health laboratories of all entities, already have the ability to make the diagnosis, said Dr. Hugo L?pez-Gatell, deputy director general of epidemiology at the National Center of Epidemiological Surveillance and Disease Control (CENAVECE ).

    In concrete, detailed, 700 units representing all public and private sectors, are dedicated to making specialized surveillance. This is the Health Units Monitors Influenza, which has a password to an online platform in which detailed data are collected cases that come to them.

    Ten percent of them said in an interview the expert, they take a sample for laboratory diagnosis, which consists of a throat swab.

    "That is, a swab is a rub on the back of the throat and that is put into a tube that has a special gel that the virus is maintained in good condition, which is sent to the health jurisdiction that in turn transfers it to the state public health laboratory that already have the ability to make the diagnosis with more advanced technology since 2009, "he said.

    In accordance with notified by the Health Units Monitors Influenza, currently seven out of every thousand visits are patients who have symptoms of the disease indicator is below 20 per thousand, which would represent some kind of alert.

    "We are in the influenza season, as we are every year in the winter, and the most likely scenario envisaged that when finished the winter season will begin to decrease cases, we are talking about the end of February or the middle of March, "said Lopez-Gatell.
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