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  • Uruguay: first death from flu H1N1

    The man of 49 years, obese, and with a chronic respiratory disease, had admitted last week to a health center in Artigas.

    Doctors suspected in the first instance it was hantavirus, told El Pais the departmental Director of health, Teresa Laens.

    ' Was later suspected that it was H1N1 influenza, the sample was taken and sent to the central laboratory. By then he had already begun treatment. The patient was mechanically and taking the appropriate medication ', recounted Laens.

    The man, who was a municipal official and was not vaccinated, died this morning; also when the confirmation of the central laboratory that was flu H1N1. arrived in Artigas Laens said that Artigas there more patients suspected of having influenza H1N1l, however, said that health authorities are contacting the relatives and friends of the deceased patient to vaccinate is going to have a certain risk for having been in contact with the man.

    In peach another 51-year-old patient is delicate for H1N1 State and in Argentina as twelve are dead for this reason

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