Suriname - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 14

[Gert van der Hoek]

Flu in Suriname

PARAMARIBO - A large part of the Surinamese national volleyball team is infected with the swine flu after returning from a match. Despite that, the players were not put in quarantine, but they could move between the Surinamese people.

Last Thursday, the players came back sick from Trinidad. They showed symptoms which immediately were linked to swine flu. There were samples of the players taken, but there were also no measures taken to prevent spread, reports Radio 1.

In Suriname it is difficult to really confirm whether there is the swine flu, because the samples of victims have to be examined abroad .

Disease

Now that the samples are confirmed, indeed, there appears to exist swine flu.

It is advised to pay attention to whether people in the vicinity of the athletes also disease, so they can be helped immediately.

The drugs have been administered to the infected athletes and they are recovering.

http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/4164134/__Griep_ook_in_Suriname__.html?p=2,1

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Suriname: National volleyball team hit by swine flu

Suriname recorded their first 13 cases of swine flu

12:28 p.m., 15 June 2009

PARAMARIBO, 15 Jun 2009 (AFP) - Thirteen people are infected in Suriname with the swine flu virus, announced on Monday the Health Minister Celsius Waterberg, who said that the country has the necessary medicines to confront the disease.

Of the 13 infected with influenza A (H1N1), eleven members of the volleyball team, who returned last week from Trinidad and Tobago, and the other two are relatives of the players, explained the minister.

"There is no reason to panic, it is only necessary to be vigilant," said Waterberg to ensure that Suriname has 1000 treatments available for patients in their residence and that some 100,000 pills of the drug Tamiflu have already been shipped to this country.

"The medicine will be sold only with prescription. No one will put in quarantine and have a sense of responsibility of each person," he said.

Preventive actions of the authorities will focus on airports. About 10,000 masks will be distributed free.

http://www.mipunto.com/punto_noticias/noticia_medicina.jsp?tipo=MEDICINA&archivo=090615162849.g1lbcxzk.txt

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Suriname - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 14

New swine flu cases in Suriname

Posted on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

PARAMARIBO, June 24 - There are three new cases of the Mexican flu detected. This reports the Bureau for Public Health, BOG. These are the members of one family: man, woman and child. Presumably there are more people infected.

But this report is not. "These are people who have signed and to whom samples were drawn," says SNB-topfunctionaris Wim Bakker. Samples from at least ninety persons sent to the Carec laboratory in Trinidad. The three infected cases occurred in a group of twenty, whose results are already known.

Of the rest is still unknown. Formally, there are fourteen local cases. The SNB is sampling the best way to proceed as quickly as possible to get to grips with the course. "We will gain insight into how bad it is and how fast the infection," said Bakker. Most reports seem to come from circles around the volleyballers sick returned from Trinidad.

http://www.waterkant.net/suriname/2009/06/24/nieuwe-gevallen-mexicaanse-griep-in-suriname/

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Re: Suriname - Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 16

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Number of H1N1 cases now at 16

by Geertruida Loseng

16/07/2009

Paramaribo - The number of confirmed H1N1 infections is adjusted to sixteen. Of the four new results yesterday at the Office for Public Healthcare (BOG) arrived, it still a positive person to be tested on the so-called Mexican flu. According to Wim Bakker, Deputy Director of the SNB, this is a child of a previously diagnosed flu patient.

The child is already healed. Of the almost 100 tests that are sent the results of more than 60 in all. The SNB will send no more tests to go abroad for research, because the laboratory abroad overwhelmed. Therefore, the request is made the limited number of tests to .-.

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Aantal H1N1-gevallen nu op 16

door Geertruida Loseng

16/07/2009

Paramaribo - Het aantal bevestigde H1N1-besmettingen is bijgesteld naar zestien. Van de vier nieuwe resultaten die gisteren bij het Bureau voor Openbare Gezondheidzorg (BOG) binnen kwamen, blijkt nog een persoon positief te zijn getest op de zogenoemde Mexicaanse griep. Volgens Wim Bakker, onderdirecteur van het BOG, gaat het om een kind van een eerder gediagnostiseerde grieppati?nt.

Het kind is intussen al genezen. Van de bijkans 100 testen die zijn opgestuurd zijn de resultaten van meer dan 60 al binnen. Het BOG stuurt voorlopig geen testen meer naar het buitenland voor onderzoek, omdat het laboratorium in het buitenland overspoeld wordt. Daarom is het verzoek gedaan het aantal testen beperkt te houden.-.