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Argentina: A/H1N1 numbers not so different from common flu

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Source: http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/4...s-influenza-A-no-superan-ahora-la-gripe-común

Google translation:
Manzur said that deaths from influenza A not so far beyond the common flu
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The new Minister of Health of the Nation, Juan Manzur, reiterated that it was "serious" the situation by the H1N1 influenza in the country but warned that new infections and deaths from the disease so far not mark an increase from the records of years above.

"In our country for years between 3500 and 4200 deaths a year attributed to influenza-like illness," said Manzur in dialogue with the journalist Oscar "The Black" Gonzalez Oro, the gold and the Moro Radio 10.
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"If one takes from the beginning of this year until now, the epidemiological week 26, the records that are influenza-like illness are 300 thousand cases. It is a figure very similar when one compares it with previous years," Manzur explained.

He added that since the epidemiological week 19 (when it began circulating in the country, the H1N1 virus, the second week of May) until now there were between 110 and 120 thousand 300 thousand of these patients, a figure very similar to previous years we had "in the same period.

While acknowledging that these 120 thousand cases of influenza-like illness since the beginning of the epidemic in the country, in 85% of patients the new virus was the cause, "95% of patients had symptoms and has been cured. "

Manzur reminded that, annually, all influenza-like illnesses (which include seasonal influenza and produced by the A/H1N1 virus) are carried between 3,500 and 4,200 patients. Currently, the number of infected with laboratory-confirmed new evil in the country is 2,800.
 
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While acknowledging that these 120 thousand cases of influenza-like illness since the beginning of the epidemic in the country, in 85% of patients the new virus was the cause, "95% of patients had symptoms and has been cured.
Is he suggesting that 5% have not been cured? A 5% CFR would be alarming and very different from the seasonal flu, wouldn't it?
 
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