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The alarm H1N1 has not happened in the Atlantic
The four suspected cases of H1N1 that have occurred in recent weeks in the city, including two fatalities, have sparked alarms health authorities, which recommend the community to take preventive measures to avoid outbreaks of influenza.
Alvaro Villanueva, infectious disease physician at a conference on the subject yesterday in the auditorium of the Hospital Carl, urged the community to when they detect influenza, reporting to the authorities to do the mop-up time and care for suspected cases of the virus A H1N1.
He said that preventive measures of spread of the virus are mainly related to the handling, rapid isolation of patients with compromised airways. "That is all that patient, a cough and stay with her for more than three days should see a doctor, because the increased cases of respiratory tract infections makes us be aware that the H1N1 virus has not yet has left us. " He noted that the virus is being forgotten, but remembered that there were significant deaths and is the time for the server health and the wider community to be alert and that measures of respiratory isolation and washing of hands met. "That is what most have served."