Re: 1st confirmed death from A/H1N1 in Argentina
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http://www.telam.com.ar/vernota.php?tipo=N&dis=1&sec=1&idPub=150125&id=297645&idnota=297645
Out that the baby who died from influenza A has been infected in hospital
"The sample tested was taken to the beginning of internment," said Deputy Minister of Health in response to statements by the parents of the second victim of H1N1 influenza in the country. After the reunion committee of experts, Carlos Soratti said that "the greatest interest in the metropolitan area is to strengthen the health services."
The Deputy Minister of Health of the Nation, Carlos Soratti, denied today that the baby who died yesterday, hit by influenza A Posadas Hospital in the town of Buenos Aires Haedo has been infected by the disease during hospitalization.
"There was no infection in the hospital Posadas because the sample was taken to the beginning of internment," said Soratti Telam, responding to statements made by television, the parents of the drink.
The deputy minister said that they understand "the parents of the baby in his pain" and "speculate on the causes of the origin of the disease," but he can not understand the outrage committed "those who spread such information.
Soratti explained that "we know that influenza itself can have a favorable outcome in the vast majority of cases, a small percentage require hospitalization, and that small percentage is associated with risk factors for disease prior.
And in this regard that: "Some hospitals may have poor evolution: that is the epidemiology of influenza in general."
Serious cases "are more severe because of its basic processes that complicate and give them a higher risk, as the baby born prematurely also have much time to hospitalization for complications of prematurity," the official said.
Telam Soratti spoke with at the end of the meeting held with the expert committee, comprising professionals from different specialties and institutions of the City of Buenos Aires and the Province of Buenos Aires.
"We discuss what to do with a very special period of transition, this outbreak of acute respiratory diseases, with an epidemiological difference between what happens in the metropolitan area with the rest of the country," he described.
"There are areas where there are clearly viral circulation and other areas where there are isolated cases, with differences in transmissibility of the virus, we began to be very high in the educational community and from people entering the country with circulation of the north."
Finally continued Soratti-transmission occurs outside of the areas that were monitored over many weeks and were able to defer any increase in transmission. "
For that reason, "the item with the largest stake in the metropolitan area is to strengthen the capacity of health services for better patient care," he said.
While the rest of the country "still betting on shares of the epidemiological surveillance and case control and transmission, while working on the adequacy of services," the official said.
Soratti said that health workers are asking for is a major effort to adapt to this new situation, but is a human resource that has the experience of severe acute respiratory infection every winter. "
However, now we have a strong recommendation to use all protective measures to prevent transmission not only of the Influenza A virus, but by all. "
"The threat to personal health is the transmission from the patient, and then between the personal health, but taking all the care provided by the rules, can be avoided," said Soratti.
"Obviously this is a continuum in which there is variation and change from one week to another. We are traveling a path that other countries have come and we have managed to delay the transmission by Community in our country during the containment phase six weeks," he said.
