Source: http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.ph...97470&Itemid=1
Google translation:
Uruguay reported two deaths from influenza A (H1-NN1)
Friday, July 03, 2009
02 July 2009, 20:17 Montevideo, July 2 (PL) Two more people died today in Uruguay due to influenza A (H1N1), bringing to three deaths from this cause, reported the Ministry of Public Health ( MSP).
In all cases the deceased were carrying the virus of the dreaded flu, but also suffered from other illnesses that complicate their clinical pictures.
One of the deceased at the time, a former firefighter for 60 years based in Montevideo, had suffered from diabetes and a heart disease database.
The other victim was a woman of 54 years resident in Maldonado (about 100 km east of Montevideo) with the kind of illnesses and also kidneys.
Uruguay reported 131 people were admitted with symptoms of influenza A (H1N1), 43 of them confirmed as carrying the virus, mostly in Montevideo (32).
The entrance to the southern winter has also unleashed a wave of seasonal influenza, whose symptoms are sometimes confused with those of the other.
Alarmed, the patients have strained the coverage of mobile medical emergencies, which are receiving up to twice daily phone calls. Only in the last three days to spend five thousand.
The MSP said in a statement that "nothing justifies the time to generate public alarm" as "we are in the numbers of people placed themselves in the winter, and what it is to act responsibly."
In this senido, advises care of the cold, wash your hands regularly and avoid as much as possible places to go to high influx of people and badly ventilated to prevent respiratory infection.
lac / ASG
Google translation:
Uruguay reported two deaths from influenza A (H1-NN1)
Friday, July 03, 2009
02 July 2009, 20:17 Montevideo, July 2 (PL) Two more people died today in Uruguay due to influenza A (H1N1), bringing to three deaths from this cause, reported the Ministry of Public Health ( MSP).
In all cases the deceased were carrying the virus of the dreaded flu, but also suffered from other illnesses that complicate their clinical pictures.
One of the deceased at the time, a former firefighter for 60 years based in Montevideo, had suffered from diabetes and a heart disease database.
The other victim was a woman of 54 years resident in Maldonado (about 100 km east of Montevideo) with the kind of illnesses and also kidneys.
Uruguay reported 131 people were admitted with symptoms of influenza A (H1N1), 43 of them confirmed as carrying the virus, mostly in Montevideo (32).
The entrance to the southern winter has also unleashed a wave of seasonal influenza, whose symptoms are sometimes confused with those of the other.
Alarmed, the patients have strained the coverage of mobile medical emergencies, which are receiving up to twice daily phone calls. Only in the last three days to spend five thousand.
The MSP said in a statement that "nothing justifies the time to generate public alarm" as "we are in the numbers of people placed themselves in the winter, and what it is to act responsibly."
In this senido, advises care of the cold, wash your hands regularly and avoid as much as possible places to go to high influx of people and badly ventilated to prevent respiratory infection.
lac / ASG
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