Ciudad del Este: At least 6 people suffer unidentifed severe respiratory illness - H1N1 and hantavirus excluded

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HEALTH | 08:44 | Saturday, November 5, 2011 Outbreak of severe respiratory infection leaves six people in Ciudad del Este
A group of six people, all French president and members of one religious sect, arrived at the Regional Hospital of Ciudad del Este, with severe that affect the respiratory system. It is a striking phenomenon that has never before recorded in the Regional Hospital, according to director Mario Flecha.

Before the outbreak alert was declared at the Regional Hospital and all were forced to use facemasks. (Photo: Sophia Masi).

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By Sophia Masi | CIUDAD DEL ESTE


"At least we never got a group of people, all epidemiologically linked to suffer from what we diagnose as severe acute respiratory failure. They started with a flu, then already suffered from shortness of breath until a pulmonary failure," said the doctor.


Two patients, father and daughter were rushed to Asuncion, another patient is in intensive care and three remain hospitalized.


These are people who belong to one family or known to the church. Most work in a cloth factory in Hernandarias and are young people between 18 and 30.


"It is remarkable that they have been affected both the disease when they are young that are supposed to have more defenses and are more resilient," said Dr. Arrow.


PREVENTION. He said that as a preventive measure before a possible expansion of evil, Epidemiology officials to survey data and the living environment in the patients, to detect possible foci or affected by the disease.


While patients remain hospitalized at the Regional Hospital of Ciudad del Este, prohibiting visits of all kinds, only one may be familiar with each patient, whether any specialty.


"We want to avoid any infection inside the hospital, until they find out exactly what this disease," said Dr. Mario Flecha.

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profecional that unethical or even are well informed of what happened are fully equibocados youth were walking alone, to spend a Sunday with friends and not the church sufrir.Creo stop you have to learn to do well after these charges so serious they have to publish the truth. NOT INVENT iT IS A LIE tHAT aRE pOSTING. Show more Show less
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WTF?, I had nothing to do with the Universal Church nor Stop Suffering! .. My neighbors are affected

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Ciudad del Este. Agency regional-the Regional Hospital of this city dawn yesterday with severe restrictions on the entry of people into the sector of internees from the placement between Wednesday and yesterday at the dawn of five youth and one older adult with pictures of acute respiratory infections (Ira).
One had entered on Wednesday, three others on Thursday and yesterday at the morning other two patients. They are five youth and an adult, father of one of the admitted.

One is in the intensive therapy unit, and both the father and his daughter were referred yesterday to assumption because the picture worsened and already would need of ICU (intensive therapy unit), according to the director of the Regional Hospital, Dr. Mario Flecha.

All have common denominator belong to the municipality of Presidente Franco and have shared a spiritual retreat on 23 October last in the Park Salto del Monday, as part of the activity of the Church Universal ("stop suffering"), which are all sick.

?Do not have a precise diagnosis of what germ, what virus it is which is attacking. It has the characteristic of a viral pattern, we already did a test for influenza and was discarded with the early studies. "Will continue to investigate," said medical director. It also reported that you reported to the Department of epidemiology of the sanitary region which is already doing the follow-up of cases.


Two young patients are co-workers at a factory of Hernandarias.

?"Already it is contacting workplaces affected so that corrective measures are taken and also to verify if there are some other febrile paintings or respiratory problems", said Dr. arrow.

However, it indicated that patients had already the possibility to contact thousands of people in the process that the virus was incubating.

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