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Brazil Suspected H1N1 Flu Cases Fall To 21 From 26 - Govt
BRASILIA (Dow Jones)--Brazil's government Thursday lowered the number of suspected cases of H1N1 type A influenza in the country to 21 from 26, the health ministry said.
The ministry also reported that the number of patients being monitored with some flu-like symptoms rose to 20 from 15. An additional 110 patients with flu-like symptoms have been determined not to have the H1N1 strain of flu virus, it said.
The government said it hasn't made any confirmation of H1N1 flu cases but continues to actively monitor travelers with flu-like symptoms returning from countries where the illness was reported to have occurred. Those under monitoring were returning to destinations in 20 Brazilian states.
Brazil's health ministry said it began laboratory testing Thursday with diagnostic kits imported from the U.S. The results of the first tests should begin to be reported on Saturday, it said.
The ministry said its criteria for monitoring patients included reports over the past 10 days of sudden fever above 38 degrees celsius, along with one or more of the following symptoms: cough, breathing difficulties, headaches, and muscular pains.
The ministry said the measures it has adopted for mitigating the spread of the disease were in agreement with recommendations from the World Health Organization, or WHO. The organization last week raised its emergency alert regarding the spread of swine flu to level five on a scale of one to six.
According to the ministry, Brazil's government has at least 12,500 allotments of medication ready to treat the illness and raw materials on hand to administer prescriptions for up to 9 million cases.
According to the WHO, more than 2,000 suspected cases of H1N1 flu have since been detected in at least 23 countries since the initial outbreak of the illness in Mexico.
-By Gerald Jeffris, Dow Jones Newswires; (5561) 3335-0832; gerald.jeffris@dowjones.com
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(END) Dow Jones Newswires
May 07, 2009 15:02 ET (19:02 GMT)
BRASILIA (Dow Jones)--Brazil's government Thursday lowered the number of suspected cases of H1N1 type A influenza in the country to 21 from 26, the health ministry said.
The ministry also reported that the number of patients being monitored with some flu-like symptoms rose to 20 from 15. An additional 110 patients with flu-like symptoms have been determined not to have the H1N1 strain of flu virus, it said.
The government said it hasn't made any confirmation of H1N1 flu cases but continues to actively monitor travelers with flu-like symptoms returning from countries where the illness was reported to have occurred. Those under monitoring were returning to destinations in 20 Brazilian states.
Brazil's health ministry said it began laboratory testing Thursday with diagnostic kits imported from the U.S. The results of the first tests should begin to be reported on Saturday, it said.
The ministry said its criteria for monitoring patients included reports over the past 10 days of sudden fever above 38 degrees celsius, along with one or more of the following symptoms: cough, breathing difficulties, headaches, and muscular pains.
The ministry said the measures it has adopted for mitigating the spread of the disease were in agreement with recommendations from the World Health Organization, or WHO. The organization last week raised its emergency alert regarding the spread of swine flu to level five on a scale of one to six.
According to the ministry, Brazil's government has at least 12,500 allotments of medication ready to treat the illness and raw materials on hand to administer prescriptions for up to 9 million cases.
According to the WHO, more than 2,000 suspected cases of H1N1 flu have since been detected in at least 23 countries since the initial outbreak of the illness in Mexico.
-By Gerald Jeffris, Dow Jones Newswires; (5561) 3335-0832; gerald.jeffris@dowjones.com
Click here to go to Dow Jones NewsPlus, a web front page of today's most important business and market news, analysis and commentary: http://www.djnewsplus.com/access/al?...dmTFSsAw%3D%3D. You can use this link on the day this article is published and the following day.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
May 07, 2009 15:02 ET (19:02 GMT)
