Re: Argentina: Confirmed cases of A/H1N1
Source: http://www.periodismo.com/modules/ne...p?storyid=9965
Influenza A: the Ministry of Health confirmed a second case in Argentina
(23/5/2009) The Minister of Health, Graciela Oca?a, yesterday confirmed the second case of influenza A (H1N1) in the country. She is a woman who was in United States 20 days ago.
This is the second patient whose analysis are positive. Others were discarded and 164 are 38 suspected cases.
Usually, symptoms of influenza type A appears during the first 48 hours of infection occurred, but on the newly confirmed case was reported that the patient had returned home three weeks ago, coming from United States, one of the countries most affected by the so-called swine flu.
Suspicious symptoms began one week after arrival. That's why they are still investigating whether there was a contagion in North America or if a case is "autochthonous."
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that "developing countries must prepare for more serious cases" because the winter is approaching in the southern hemisphere creates the conditions for the virus changes "its genetic material so unpredictable."
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Argentina - Cases of A/H1N1 - 617 deaths
AO PAULO -- Brazil and Argentina have confirmed five swine flu cases within their borders as the virus affects more nations in South America.
Brazilian Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao says four young adults contracted the flu outside the country, which is home to the continent's largest population.
He says three of them caught the virus in Mexico, and one in Florida. Only one remains hospitalized and is reported in good condition.
Argentine Health Minister Graciela Ocana says the first person sickened by the virus in her country is a man who returned from Mexico on April 25.
He has already been released from the hospital.
Before Thursday, Colombia was the only South American nation to confirm swine flu with its borders.
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