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  • Chuquisaca registers the first death from influenza AH1N1

    Sucre, BOLIVIA, on July 23 - The Departmental Service of Health (Head offices) of Chuquisaca confirmed on Monday the first decease of a person as a consequence of the flu AH1N1 in the city of Sucre, reported the boss of the Unit of Epidemiologia of this entity, Jhonny Camacho. It is a question of a person of masculine sex of 53 years of age native to the province Cintis, which his health was interned in advance, nevertheless one complicated and died at 17:30 of Sunday.

    Camacho informed that the patient was not vaccinated against this illness and regrettably it infected to his wife, nevertheless, the same one, it is with clinical control.

    Noticias de Bolivia, lo último en actualidad informativa del país y la información que le interesa de El Alto, Política, Economía, Sociedad y Salud.

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    Re: Chuquisaca registers the first death from influenza AH1N1

    Two people die after contracting influenza


    Two people die that had the influenza A/H1N1, but not precisely because of this disease but suffering from other diseases considered base or chronic. The chief of the Epidemiology Unit of the Department's Health Service (headquarters) Chuquisaca, Jhonny Camacho, clarified that the cause of the death of both persons was not by the influenza due to that this disease was treated promptly with antibiotics. Camacho reported that died because they both suffered from diabetes, asthma and hypertension, which are part of the chronic diseases or disorders database. The headquarters, in Chuquisaca, until yesterday reported 23 cases of influenza A/H1N1 and ten of AH3N2; of the patients with AH1N1 two people lost their lives, but not precisely because of this illness typical of the winter season, but by another type of pathologies of base, stressed. One of the people died in the Hospital Gastroenterologico and the other at the Hospital Santa Barbara.
    Faced with this situation, the venues recommended to the population that has chronic diseases should be immunized in prevention campaigns, For who do not pass by this kind of situations that at the end may cost them their lives
    "vaccination is important, I hope that this will serve to the people who have problems with chronic diseases, so that when the Headquarters says 'be vaccinated', the first to be vaccinated they are for that in this way they can protect their lives," said Camacho.

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