Appears first case of influenza

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06.04.2011 | 8:36
Appears first case of influenza

Agency (Reform) The first case of human influenza year was detected Friday at a 21 year old native of Tlaquepaque, said the director of Public Health, Mario Amezcua M?rquez
Written by Pilar Perez / Agency ReformaTama?o text

GUADALAJARA, Jalisco 25-Apr .- The first case of human influenza this year was detected Friday at a 21 year old native of Tlaquepaque, said the director of Public Health, Mario Amezcua M?rquez.

He said that since May 2010 there had been no new cases.

"He went with us to the health of Santa Anita, she is a resident of the municipality of Tlaquepaque, came with a whole specific symptoms for influenza-like illness, the sample was taken," he said.

This patient did not require hospitalization, so that recovery is brought from his house, he said ..

The official said the affected was not vaccinated, so he got sick.

"Something very important is that the patient had no vaccine, no specific vaccine for H1N1, or the seasonal" he said.

For the moment, two thirds of the population of Jalisco are vaccinated against influenza.

So far they have applied 4 million doses, which implies that this group is already protected, plus people already sick and you're immune.

Amezcua M?rquez said that the stage of the disease is completely different from two years ago, so the warning signs are not high, but promoted the use of hygiene measures.

"The best way to protect yourself is quite simply the habits that we stopped teaching the flu, we should not lose as handwashing, how to sneeze and above all, get vaccinated," he said.

As in all cases detected, the Ministry of Health implemented a fence around the home health of the patient and no further cases were detected.

 

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Guadalajara
First confirmed case of influenza
Occidental
April 26, 2011

Isaura Lopez Villalobos

Guadalajara, Jalisco .- The H1N1 influenza virus continues to circulate in the state of Jalisco, the Ministry of Health confirmed the first case of the region, it is a 21-year-old resident of the municipality of Tlaquepaque, the sample was ratified by the State Laboratory of Public Health last Friday.

When the first studies the young, it was identified that was not vaccinated against any type of influenza. The director of Epidemiology, Arturo Rangel is concerned that the cases will be submitted in the youth sector, and that the biological was applied mainly to the adult population.

"Probably the young people, who's the one not directed primarily vaccination, cases could arise."

The Director General of Public Health, Mario Amezcua M?rquez reported that so far it is unknown how and where the patient acquired the disease, so epidemiological studies conducted among friends and kin, for now the family is already receiving treatment prevention.

"We're doing an epidemiological study, we continue with the study contact, so far all the contacts we have examined have been negative."

The girl did not require hospitalization, the treatment she received was for outpatient and health status is reported as "favorable," according to Amezcua M?rquez virus was not as aggressive, since she had no risk factors.

Some of the symptoms detected by the health staff of the Health Center of Santa Anita in the young, were fever, cough, sore throat and ears: the official reiterated that the patient did not have any kind of vaccination.

"The most interesting fact which gives us this case is that the patient is not sensitized to the vaccine, or has not been vaccinated or with seasonal vaccine nor specific vaccine for H1N1, did not have other concomitant conditions, such as disease cardiovascular disease, obesity or chronic renal failure. "

Number of epidemiological week 16 of year, the State Laboratory of Public Health has processed 519 samples to identify the virus, of which 26 were positive for influenza (20 per seasonal influence of type A, four type B and two H1N1)