2010: The first suspected case of H1N1 flu dies

[Ronan Kelly]

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21/04/2010 - The first suspected case of H1N1 flu is a severely ill patient



Appears the first suspected case of H1N1 pandemic influenza of the season in Alto Paran?. The victim is an elderly man, hospitalized for four days in intensive care at the Hospital Area 2 Tes?i Foundation.


This is an official of the Itaipu Binational, 53, who resides in Area 4. You are in the medical center said since last Saturday. Do not know if he had contact with aliens from countries with active circulation of influenza pandemic.
The patient has other illnesses as well as his picture remains complicated and delicate.
The doctors took samples to analyze whether it was affected by that disease and presenting various symptoms.
Samples were sent to the capital of the country to be processed through the Central Laboratory of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare. The case is being handled as suspicious, because there is still no reliable results to confirm or discard.
Season pandemic that began last year affected nearly a thousand people around the country, of which 46 were fatal shunt.

By the end of this month arrive in the country about 1,600,000 doses of influenza vaccine. Give priority to the implementation of risk group patients, ie those who have more chance of getting the disease, developing severe illness from infection, among them include older adults, infants 6 to 23 months, patients chronic diabetics, asthmatics, pregnant women and morbidly obese.

MEASURES

The Ministry of Health launched an awareness campaign for non-pharmacological prevention of H1N1, that is by hygienic measures such as hand washing, voluntary isolation, and early to attend health services at the onset of symptoms.
This is because the doses are not available for the entire population.
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[tetano]

Re: 2010: The first suspected case of H1N1 flu is a severely ill patient

Re: 2010: The first suspected case of H1N1 flu is a severely ill patient

The affected one is a 53-year-old man, of City of the East, interned in serious state. There are other 7 with suspicions of the illness. Central laboratory of the MSP is prepared for a possible epidemic sprout.




It returned. The virus of the vine-stock A H1N1 started circulating again in the country, after at least five months without notifications coincidental with the summer period. The Department of Public Health (MSP) confirmed yesterday the first case of influenza A H1N1 of this year. The affected one is a 53-year-old man, who is interned in the Unit of Intensive Therapy (UTI) of the Hospital of the Area 2 of City of the East (High Parana). According to the information of the department of epidemiolog?a of the Tenth Sanitary Region, the man entered to the welfare center last Saturday, the 16th of April, with a picture of respiratory sharp complaint and pneumonia. Due to his gravity, it was derived immediately to the UTI, where it remains internee. The patient lives in the Area 4 of the departmental capital and there is not known if it had contact with foreign persons who might be bearers of the evil.
The samples laboratoriales were analyzed in the Central Laboratory of Public Health, where it was confirmed that the virus is of the vine-stock A H1N1. This year, in High Parana 7 cases of respiratory complaints were notified with suspicion to have been caused by the virus A H1N1. All of them, nevertheless, are stable. Last year, in the region of High Parana there were notified 546 cases of respiratory sharp infections, of which 216 were confirmed as flu A H1N1, and 9 of them died, according to the reports of epidemiolog?a. The results of some studies realized in 2009 keep on coming to the sanitary institution. Authorities of the region show that reason does not exist to worry still for the pandemic of the flu since the fastidiousness keeps on being the epidemic that prevails.

http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/315230-Salud-confirma-el-primer-caso-de--gripe-A-H1N1-del-año-2010

 

[Tonka]

Re: 2010: The first suspected case of H1N1 flu is a severely ill patient

Re: 2010: The first suspected case of H1N1 flu is a severely ill patient

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2010-04-22 | confirm first case of H1N1 flu in the country this year
The director of the Tenth Health Region Public Health, Dr. Hector Arnella, confirmed this morning that the first patient was detected with influenza A H1N1 this year. The physician said the victim is a patient who is 53 years. The victim is hospitalized in the Hospital Tesai Area 2 of Ciudad del Este. It is presumed that the man was infected with the evil in our country since they never left Paraguay.

 

[tetano]

Re: 2010: The first suspected case of H1N1 flu is a severely ill patient

Re: 2010: The first suspected case of H1N1 flu is a severely ill patient

The patient with suspicious picture of flu A H1N1 dies


The 48-year-old patient interned in the Hospital of the Area 2 of the Foundation Tes?i, suspect of carrying the virus of influenza A H1N1, finally died on Wednesday, spent the midday, confirmed sources of the institution. The man was interned for 5 days - from the last April 16 - in intensive therapy. The information was confirmed by Dr. Ignacio Iramain, technical manager of the hospital. The unfortunate one is Francisco Macchi, official in life of Itaip? Binacional. Officially it was not possible to confirm the real cause of his decease, since at first one spoke that was the first victim of the virus A H1N1, which then was denied by the authorities of the Tenth Sanitary Region. Dr. Iramain denied that it should be a question of a confirmed case of pandemic influenza. " We only speak about a suspicion of A H1N1 because the patient entered to the hospital with a pulmonary serious picture, but never we can confirm that it should be a question of this virus ", it indicated. The professional said that the samples taken to the patient are in the Central Laboratory, in Asunci?n, but that it still has not proved.
" The results that confirm or discard this evil will be newly in 15 or more days ", it recounted. It supported that the case was notified to the Department of Epidemiolog?a by the respiratory symptoms that the victim was presenting, but that at all times talked each other as a suspicious diagnosis of the pandemic vine-stock. CONTROVERSY. Nevertheless, the director of the Tenth Sanitary Region, H?ctor Arnella, confirmed yesterday, during an interview granted to radio on the First of March, which talks each other about the first one A H1N1 in City of the East. It even gave the details on his internment and spoke about a work more coordinated in the system of local health for the communication on this type of pictures. The same Arnella, yesterday at 10 a.m., in an official press release of the region, pointed out that only it is a question of a suspicious case and asked for excuses for the confusion generated in the public opinion.
" Before the publication appeared in national means of press of the assertion of the first case of influenza A H1N1 in the department of the High Parana, we meet in the obligation to clarify that the confirmatory study for the pandemic vine-stock of the case mentioned is still in process, for what the closing of the same one at present is dependent on the results laboratoriales ", it points out textually the bulletin. In another paragraph of the document he adds: " The information divulged in diverse means was a fruit of a bad interpretation of partial available information of the case ". The writing that takes the signature of H?ctor Arnella ends up by saying that " the regional director requests the corresponding excuses ".

http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/315749-Muere-el-paciente--con-cuadro-sospechoso-de-gripe-A-H1N1