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21/04/2010 - The first suspected case of H1N1 flu is a severely ill patient
Appears the first suspected case of H1N1 pandemic influenza of the season in Alto Paran?. The victim is an elderly man, hospitalized for four days in intensive care at the Hospital Area 2 Tes?i Foundation.
This is an official of the Itaipu Binational, 53, who resides in Area 4. You are in the medical center said since last Saturday. Do not know if he had contact with aliens from countries with active circulation of influenza pandemic.
The patient has other illnesses as well as his picture remains complicated and delicate.
The doctors took samples to analyze whether it was affected by that disease and presenting various symptoms.
Samples were sent to the capital of the country to be processed through the Central Laboratory of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare. The case is being handled as suspicious, because there is still no reliable results to confirm or discard.
Season pandemic that began last year affected nearly a thousand people around the country, of which 46 were fatal shunt.
By the end of this month arrive in the country about 1,600,000 doses of influenza vaccine. Give priority to the implementation of risk group patients, ie those who have more chance of getting the disease, developing severe illness from infection, among which include the elderly, infants 6 to 23 months, patients chronic diabetics, asthmatics, pregnant women and morbidly obese.
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The Ministry of Health launched an awareness campaign for non-pharmacological prevention of H1N1, that is by hygienic measures such as hand washing, voluntary isolation, and early to attend health services at the onset of symptoms.
This is because the doses are not available for the entire population.