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Tabasco is ready to live with influenza
Influenza Alert - Thursday, April 22 (11:26 hrs.)
They are aware that prevention is a task required
They point out that habits such as hygiene and self-medication are not permanent
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Villahermosa, April 22 .- One year after the emergence of influenza A (H1N1) in the country, the health sector of Tabasco is ready to live with its presence and awareness that prevention is a task required, said state's industry secretary, Luis Felipe Zapata Graham.
In taking stock of what happened in Tabasco with this emerging disease one year of its inception this April 23, said that beyond the health sector, citizenship and society, health habits, such as self-medication are non-permanent and are subject .
Tabasco, detailed, is located at No. 23 country in number of cases with 4,003cases, with 15 deaths and their physicians have an obligation to remain alert to any suspicion.
He recalled that the first five months of the pandemic were the most difficult because they do not know the behavior of the virus, which took extreme measures such as suspending classes, medical filters installed in schools, at bus terminals and airport.
It acquired special thermometers to measure the temperature of passengers, suspected patients were reviewed with 14 points guards, "necessary measures that allowed us to go beyond the emergency," he recalled.
In addition, he said, given the risk that the southern border with Central America foreign incomers with the virus, health sealing was carried out by the courts.
Therefore, said the Health Secretaries of the south-east were in constant communication to take care of that aspect.
Zapata Graham said that in one year were more than six thousand samples with data suggestive and plunged to 991 patients with suspected pneumonia data.
Then, he explained, came coverage with the application of the vaccine against A (H1N1) with 213 000 doses, first pregnant in the first quarter and then extended to the other, also to caregivers of infants and medical staff.
During the emergency phase was modernized and equipped the Public Health Laboratory, where he installed a device to detect any cases of A (H1N1) in real time and send the samples to the Federal District.
Health Secretary Tabasco recalled that someone has the virus-related symptoms should not go to places closed and in the case of children should not attend school.
Indeed, besides the economic losses associated with the emergence a year ago, the emergence of influenza A (H1N1) has caused the cancellation for the second year of the Expo Feria Tabasco 2009, the most traditional event of the entity, just as he was starting a few days. (With information from Notimex / CFE)