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  • Chile: two serious cases have registered this year

    SANTIAGO. - On March 28 the Department of Health initiated the campaign of vaccination against the virus of the influenza. The initiative has as end of avoiding an episode similar to the happened one in 2009, when the flu A H1N1 received 153 lives. In 2010 the number descended, coming to 310 contagions and 21 deceased. This year, the official report does not speak about fatal victims, although yes of two serious cases. The last epidemiologic balance with the date second of April, indicates that it is a question of a minor of the Metropolitan Region and other of Valparaiso, of two and one year, respectively. ? The two of masculine sex without illness of base and the first one, with precedent of trip to Spain ?, it points out the document. For the infect?logo and the director of the Network Health UC, Carlos P?rez, after the term of the pandemic was decreed, the human influenza happened to be a part of the seasonal viruses, discarding that produce to themselves important mutations. ? Every certain number of years can appear completely different vine-stocks, but it is not hoped that a pandemic spreads in the next years.
    What can happen they are minor changes and for that permanent alertness exists ?, pointed out the expert TERRA.cl. Also there exist records of three serious contagions for influenza H3N2, whereas of the influenza B episodes are not known.

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