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Source: http://www.elnuevoherald.com/256/story/496366.html
Google translation:
Paraguay: seasonal flu kills three people
The Associated Press
ASUNCION - not only the swine flu caused fatalities and three people died from the so-called seasonal influenza, according to Cesar Caba?as, manager of hospital health workers IPS.
The doctor confirmed that the three deaths occurred on the weekend, were "respiratory complications caused by influenza and the common rapid test out the presence of the virus AH1N1.
The victims were two men of 57 and 40 years, and a woman of 52 years.
"At this time in the hospital we have 50 patients admitted for seasonal influenza," he said to add: "in Paraguay die annually between 600 and 700 for complications of the respiratory tract caused by seasonal influenza."
Meanwhile, Ivan Allende, Director of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Public Health said that so far three people have died of swine flu AH1N1: a man of 60, a girl of 8 years and a baby of eleven months.
"We have nearly 1,000 suspected to have infected with the virus, there are about 200 patients of whom 14 are in hospitals," he said.
The World Health Organization (WHO), according to Allende, called on governments to disseminate only the dead and not infected or suspected to avoid speculation about underreporting of disease.
Google translation:
Paraguay: seasonal flu kills three people
The Associated Press
ASUNCION - not only the swine flu caused fatalities and three people died from the so-called seasonal influenza, according to Cesar Caba?as, manager of hospital health workers IPS.
The doctor confirmed that the three deaths occurred on the weekend, were "respiratory complications caused by influenza and the common rapid test out the presence of the virus AH1N1.
The victims were two men of 57 and 40 years, and a woman of 52 years.
"At this time in the hospital we have 50 patients admitted for seasonal influenza," he said to add: "in Paraguay die annually between 600 and 700 for complications of the respiratory tract caused by seasonal influenza."
Meanwhile, Ivan Allende, Director of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Public Health said that so far three people have died of swine flu AH1N1: a man of 60, a girl of 8 years and a baby of eleven months.
"We have nearly 1,000 suspected to have infected with the virus, there are about 200 patients of whom 14 are in hospitals," he said.
The World Health Organization (WHO), according to Allende, called on governments to disseminate only the dead and not infected or suspected to avoid speculation about underreporting of disease.
