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  • Uruguay: Baby hospitalized with severe flu, school closed for two days

    A 19 year old with a lung viral type, presumably H1N1, died in hospital on Monday Tacuaremb?. Meanwhile, a baby with severe influenza A is the same health center. In a school closed for Maldonado flu.



    The woman, a native of Long Hill, arrived at the Regional Hospital of Tacuarembo with a severe respiratory infection and died an hour after being admitted. Nelson Ferreira, director of Health Tacuaremb? department, confirmed the information to El Pais.



    The patient was obese, this risk factor in five of the nine deaths from the H1N1 virus, according to official figures (see infographic). Although still investigating whether the patient had the virus from the hospital reported that he suffered a 'bilateral lung disease with features of viral'.



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    Re: Uruguay: Baby hospitalized with severe flu, school closed for two days

    School was closed temporarily for flu cases

    The school Dreamdays, Punta del Este, closed Tuesday and Wednesday will occur after two cases of influenza H1N1 among their students.

    200 children attend the school in two turnos.Seg?n El Pa?s the number of people killed by the virus is "much" of nine, which is the figure known Melo oficialmente.Una young native who died Monday at the Hospital could Tacuaremb? be the tenth victim of the year if it is confirmed that infectious diseases had virus.El Eduardo Savio said that although the best time to get vaccinated against influenza is in autumn, so now you can still be applied efectividad.Este year 400 000 doses of 500,000 available.

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      Re: Uruguay: Baby hospitalized with severe flu, school closed for two days

      The school preschool Dreamdays, Punta del Este, which this week closed for five cases of influenza A, issued a statement to the country in which belies statements by the Minister of Health, Jorge Venegas.



      'The statements by the minister are inaccurate. The school immediately notified the authorities about the two cases of influenza A (which later became five) 'he said.



      On Wednesday, after the El Pais report on the suspension of classes in preschool, Venegas said to underline that "the health authority had no information. (The decision) was to answer their own owners or persons in charge of the garden '. And claimed: 'There seems to epidemiologists around with their own decision. "



      Venegas said the ministry had not received any consultation and indicated that in these cases to do is' to inform the health authority to carry out the relevant research and take the necessary precautions. "


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