Uruguay: first victim of flu H1N1 in Artigas

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The man of 49 years, obese, and with a chronic respiratory disease, had admitted last week to a health center in Artigas. The doctors suspected in the first instance it was hantavirus, departmental Director as of health, Teresa Laens.' then 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 ', said Laens.El man, who was a municipal official and was not vaccinated, died this morning; When also became Artigas confirmation of the central laboratory that suffered from H1N1 influenza.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 in a delicate State by H1N1 and in Argentina are already twelve dead for this reason.

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