Argentina - (Un)official estimates - 100,000 cases - 55 deaths

[Gert van der Hoek]

According to unofficial estimates 55 were killed by the influenza virus A in Argentina

According to unofficial estimates, the number of deaths would amount to 55, with at least 30 fatalities in the province, 17 in the capital, six in Santa Fe, Misiones and another one in Corrientes. The portal publishes Infobae.com

BUENOS AIRES .- The fatal cases of influenza A in the country and would be over 50, although the new Minister of Health of the Nation, Juan Manzur, said it had confirmed only 43 or 44 "after his official presentation in the office replacing Graciela Oca?a.

Since last Friday that the portfolio does not update the national health data on the disease on their website, Manzur, and hinted that the agency now chairs suspended the issuance of the party newspaper on the progress of the new flu in the country.

"We can not go on adding all the patients who died," said Manzur in his first press conference as Minister of Health of the Nation, at the Casa Rosada, and added that he believed the number of deaths in Argentina amounted to " 43 or 44. "

In the absence of official information, the count of fatal cases of influenza A in the country virtually became "craft", especially after the resignation of Oca?a, materialized last Monday. So far would be more than 50 patients who died here because of the disease.

According to unofficial estimates, the number of deaths would amount to 55, with at least 30 fatalities in the province of Buenos Aires, 17 in the federal capital, six in Santa Fe, Misiones and another one in Corrientes.

Bonaerense in the territory, until Tuesday, Health Minister Claudio Zin had confirmed 29 cases lethal, which yesterday joined him at least one more episode. It is a small garden that was attending a French mother of the College of the village of Banfield and died Wednesday after he was removed from the facility with 39 degrees of temperature.

It is expected that today the Zin update on the spread of the disease in the province, where a child would also have died in Tigre in the last hours affected by the new influenza A/H1N1.

Meanwhile, in the federal capital, where at least 17 were fatal, according to a report presented yesterday to the Health Committee of the Legislature of Buenos Aires. In addition, an estimated 85% of people who are carriers of flu type A in the city of Buenos Aires.

http://www.notiexpress.com.ar/news.cgi?accion=vernew&id=61892

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http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/4...os-muertos-por-la-influenza-A-en-la-Argentina

http://www.derf.com.ar/despachos.asp?cod_des=273723&ID_Seccion=33

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Argentina - Unofficial estimates - 55 deaths

Re: Argentina - Unofficial estimates - 55 deaths

Estimates now are 63

Influenza A: eight more deaths in the interior add to the 55 fatalities provisional

Health authorities in the provinces of Córdoba and Neuquén expected results from sampling of new patients who died with symptoms of the disease. In a second confirmed death Missions


Samples from the deceased persons in Córdoba and Neuquén is located in the Institute Malbrán, pending confirmation of the disease. Meanwhile, doctors say that attended all the symptoms were compatible with influenza A.

Mediterranean province reported six deaths, all due to respiratory diseases. One is a 10 year old girl who allegedly died from a complication arising from the new virus neumonológica. He interned at the Hospital Clinicas, Cordoba capital, reported the La Mañana de Córdoba.

Meanwhile, seven pregnant women are placed in critical condition with symptoms of having the new disease. Of these, two underwent cesarean delivery and the babies are safe.

In Neuquén, a woman between 50 and 60 years died on Tuesday due to respiratory effects are presumed to be the product of the action of the A/H1N1 virus.

The Secretariat for Women in the province said that the victim had any symptoms compatible with BSE, but can not because they expect to formalize the Institute Malbrán confirm the presence of disease in the samples, reported Black River Online.

For its part, the Ministry of Public Health confirmed a new death missions. This is a long distance driver who was killed days earlier in a sanatorium Posadas, published under the Digital Territory website. It joins other fatalities in the province and formally.

In the absence of official information, the count of fatal cases of influenza A in the country virtually became "craft", especially after the resignation of Ocaña, materialized last Monday.

According to unofficial estimates, there would be at least 30 fatalities in the province of Buenos Aires, 17 in the federal capital, six in Santa Fe, Misiones and another one in Corrientes, in addition to eight new released today by the local media.

http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/4...umarían-a-las-55-víctimas-fatales-provisorias

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Argentina - Unofficial estimates - 100,000 cases - 55 deaths

Re: Argentina - Unofficial estimates - 100,000 cases - 55 deaths

Argentina: 44 dead and 100,000 infected

One day after taking office in the Ministry of Health of Argentina, Juan Manzur admitted yesterday that "the estimated 100,000 patients affected by influenza virus A (H1N1) since the first case appeared in April in the neighboring country .

Last Friday, the eve of parliamentary elections, the last official spoke only part of 1587 confirmed cases. Other sources estimated that 50,000 were infected.

Have not received reports of new deaths, 44 so far. It also provides for the suspension of classes from next Monday, and both in public and private, the Argentine government decided to grant special leave of 15 days to pregnant women and people with immune problems or cancer.

About closing spectacles to prevent massive concentrations, the health minister bonaerense, Claudio Zin, said that does not question those districts or provinces that gave such a measure, but said: "When we are convinced that there is close to restaurants and shopping arguments, we will close, but today we have no reason to move forward with that. "

http://www.elpais.com.uy/090703/ult...to/argentina-44-muertos-y-100-000-contagiados

 

[JimO]

Re: Argentina - (Un)official estimates - 100,000 cases - 55 deaths

The first article suggests that there are 8 in addition to the 55 cases, unless I misunderstood.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Argentina - (Un)official estimates - 100,000 cases - 55 deaths

The first article suggests that there are 8 in addition to the 55 cases, unless I misunderstood.

Yes, you did not misunderstand. The situation is confusing in Argentina. The various reports reflect this.

The latest article is an "official estimate" by minister of Health himself, stating there are some 100,000 cases.

Previous articles based on several sources from NGO's, report "at least" 55 deaths. One report says: 63 .

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Argentina - (Un)official estimates - 100,000 cases - 55 deaths

Swine Flu Death Toll in Argentina Climbs


Published: July 3, 2009

RIO DE JANEIRO — The death toll from swine flu in Argentina continued to rise as President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said she would not rule out closing major public venues where the virus could spread more quickly.

Dr. Juan Manzur, the new health minister, said Friday that 44 people had died from swine flu and that the country had 2,800 confirmed flu cases. The numbers reflected a sharp increase compared with a week earlier, when there were 26 deaths and 1,587 cases.

Swine flu has killed more people in Argentina than in any other country in South America, where the winter flu season is just beginning. The death rate of 1.6 percent is more than three times the world average, Claudio Zin, the health minister of Buenos Aires Province, said Friday.

Argentina passed Canada this week as the country with the third-highest death toll from the flu, but it remains behind Mexico and the United States. Dr. Manzur said that officials now suspect that there are 100,000 cases of swine flu in the country, compared with 320,000 cases of other types of flu.

The government has been slow in confirming cases, doctors said, because it only has one state laboratory doing the testing.

Mrs. Kirchner tried Friday to calm an anxious public but did not discount the possibility that officials would close movie theaters, discos and other public places to try to contain the flu’s spread.

“We cannot rule out anything,” she said. “Measures will be taken as they are deemed necessary.”

Argentina was ill-prepared for the global swine flu pandemic, and some private health officials have said that Mrs. Kirchner’s government should have declared a state of emergency before national congressional elections last Sunday.

That would probably have entailed delaying the elections, which Mrs. Kirchner had moved up by four months in a bid to increase the chances that her husband, former President Néstor Kirchner, could prevail in his race for Congress. He failed to come in first, hurting the couple’s chances that one of them could win the presidency in 2011.

Several doctors, including some who were advising the health ministry, have said that Graciela Ocaña, the former health minister, had recommended calling a national state of emergency and delaying the elections, but was overruled. Ms. Ocaña resigned Monday and has yet to discuss the issue publicly.

Some private doctors said declaring a national state of emergency would allow the health authorities to put together a coordinated plan to contain the spread of swine flu as Mexico did.

Mrs. Kirchner has resisted making a national declaration, but the city and province of Buenos Aires have declared health emergencies to give officials greater access to funds and free rein to close schools and other public places.

Even as some officials are closing schools and extending winter vacations to keep young people isolated and indoors, huge public gatherings continue to be held.

In Buenos Aires, people waited in long lines on Friday to purchase 3,500 available tickets for a championship soccer match on Sunday. The match is scheduled to be played in a packed 48,000-seat stadium.

Several media outlets reported that two more people died Friday, identified only as young adults in the city of Rosario, increasing the unofficial total to 46. Dr. Manzur said more deaths than the 44 confirmed were being studied to see if they were caused by swine flu.

The outbreak is expected to cost the economy up to $2.9 billion this year, deepening an economic contraction to 3 percent from 2.2 percent, according to estimates by economists at HSBC bank in Buenos Aires.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/world/americas/04argentina.html?_r=2&ref=world