A new case of flu A-H1N1, which appeared in a nurse of the Maternal - infantile Hospital of the National Box of Health (CNS), immunized against this virus, questions the efficacy of the vaccine against this illness. Yesterday in this hospital one proceeded to the fumigation of the ambiences, as one more of the measurements that were assumed after be known that two nurses contracted the influenza, one of them that had received the vaccine and other one not. “ On having had knowledge of two cases of flu A-H1N1 in our center, we have taken the pertinent measures that it would be the environmental disinfection and previously the measurements of mechanical protection like they are the use of barbijos and the hand wash, which we have been always handling ”, reported the person in charge of service of operating theatre, Carmen Hinojosa Fernández. It indicated that in accordance with the evolution of every patient, the doctors have proceeded to give the corresponding discharge and the rest of the patients, they have been transferred to other rooms of the hospital. “ We do not know where it has been the initial contagion of the personnel that regrettably has suffered the flu A-H1N1 and we have been notified of this by the Departmental Service of Health (Sedate), and we have taken the pertinent measures, both with the personnel and with the ambience ”,
he said. It showed that scarcely they received the laboratory result (hisopado), the nurses were dismissed. It affirmed that there does not exist the possibility that any child or mother has been infected by the virus, because the forecasts of the case took. It indicated that one of them received the vaccine and other one not because when the campaign of vaccination was realized it was away on holiday. “ This is what alarms us, because theoretically for what we wait after a vaccination is that already the illness is not acquired but regrettably one of the nurses who has been vaccinated has contracted the illness ”, it pointed out, Carmen Hinojosa. With regard to the efficacy of the vaccine, it recounted that “ he would not risk saying to me that it is ineffective, but if we analyze coldly we would have to say that yes, because this person has been vaccinated and contracted the illness ”, it supported. The environmental disinfection has developed yesterday from 9:00, activity that was coordinated by the personnel of the Head offices.
he said. It showed that scarcely they received the laboratory result (hisopado), the nurses were dismissed. It affirmed that there does not exist the possibility that any child or mother has been infected by the virus, because the forecasts of the case took. It indicated that one of them received the vaccine and other one not because when the campaign of vaccination was realized it was away on holiday. “ This is what alarms us, because theoretically for what we wait after a vaccination is that already the illness is not acquired but regrettably one of the nurses who has been vaccinated has contracted the illness ”, it pointed out, Carmen Hinojosa. With regard to the efficacy of the vaccine, it recounted that “ he would not risk saying to me that it is ineffective, but if we analyze coldly we would have to say that yes, because this person has been vaccinated and contracted the illness ”, it supported. The environmental disinfection has developed yesterday from 9:00, activity that was coordinated by the personnel of the Head offices.
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