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Four deaths from the H1N1 virus in Uruguay, with more than 60 infected in 2011

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  • Four deaths from the H1N1 virus in Uruguay, with more than 60 infected in 2011

    Four deaths from the H1N1 virus in Uruguay, with more than 60 infected in 2011
    03/08/2011 19:52 The Uruguayan Ministry of Public Health confirmed on Wednesday that a seven year old girl who died July 31 was carrying the H1N1 virus, bringing the total to four deaths from the strain flu, which affected more than 60 people in the country so far in 2011.
    Montevideo. AFP .- "The Department of Public Health Laboratory confirmed the presence of H1N1 virus in the sample for the case of the girl who died on July 31 in the department of Maldonado" (East), said the statement released Wednesday.

    The day before, the director general of health, Gilberto Rios, said that since the beginning of 2011 there were over 60 cases of people infected with H1N1 virus, of which "30% required hospitalization, which" is within the foreseeable ".


    H1N1 killed 25 people in Uruguay, according to the latest official figure reported in August 2009.

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    Re: Four deaths from the H1N1 virus in Uruguay, with more than 60 infected in 2011

    He said the director, the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) has made a survey between severe acute respiratory infections and to discriminate between which are bacterial and viral causes. In turn, within the viral, which are indicated by the virus A (H1N1). In the count reached the figure of 60 cases confirmed Wednesday Uruguay.R?os, on behalf of MSP, a girl of seven who lived in Maldonado had died from influenza A. For the National Director of Health, this latest death from influenza A out of the usual pattern of cases by the virus A (H1N1). "This case leaves the pattern, because even out of habitual patterns of risk: obesity, chronic illnesses, pregnant women and Etara stripes," said jerarca.R?os explained that the flu cases, consultations and even in intensive care for flu were within expectations.
    Gilberto Rios also spoke of the characteristics prevalent in the 2011 flu. "We have a curve started to rise in late May (week 21) and are in EW 30. It is estimated that there will be two weeks in Phase 4 and then begin to drop if the behavior is maintained


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