Brazil: 7 fatal victims by H1N1 in Goi?s

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The year is still in half and the number of deaths of victims of Influenza A (H1N1), in Goi?nia, is close to match all records from 2012, when three people died in the capital. Until then, two deaths have been confirmed and a third, which took place on Saturday (13) in the Hospital of Tropical Diseases (HDT), waits for the laboratory examination to certify the cause. The context is concerned, because the critical period of the year, with the sudden drop of moisture, is yet to come, what signals the possibility of 2013 be the year with the highest incidence of the disease, since the global outbreak occurred in 2009. To 1:20 pm of Saturday, Gaurav Mathur, of 50 years, passed away after spending a week hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the HDT. The victim's sister says that she was the flu a few days ago, but that the high fever, common symptom of Influenza, had not yet arisen. Doctors gave the diagnosis on Friday, one day before the death, and informed the family that it was Influenza a. just this year since April, passed through the HDT, as the technical director Leticia Aires, 11 people in serious condition with confirmed cases of Influenza a. both of these are still hospitalized. 'It is important to worry about it. So the person feel flu-like symptoms, it is good to search for the doctor and, especially, those who belong to the so-called priority groups: children, the elderly, pregnant women, the obese and people with chronic disease ', points out.





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Re: H1N1 may have made third fatal victim in Goi?nia

Re: H1N1 may have made third fatal victim in Goi?nia

Child death is investigated for suspected swine flu, in Goi?s



The death of a child of 10 years is being investigated for suspected Influenza A (H1N1), Aparecida de Goi?nia, in the metropolitan region of the capital. If confirmed, she will be the first child to die as a result of the H1N1 virus this year in the State of Goi?s. according to data passed on to the State health Secretariat (SES), the girl died on March 11 in a hospital of Aparecida de Goi?nia, six days after being hospitalized. Due to the symptoms, the medical team that has met suspected cause of death and notified the Municipal Health Office of Aparecida. As the collection of material for the survey was collected after the death, the result should only be ready in 90 days, according to the Press Office of the .




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Doctor denies rumors that patient has H1N1

After various information that the patient admitted to Hospital Samaritano was with H1N1, the infectious disease Quimarques Cacemiro Barros Santos, explained that the patient who was admitted in the hospital yesterday with bacterial pneumonia. Once you have returned on Monday, 19, of Caldas Novas, the patient sought the emergency room, where he underwent tests that diagnosed the disease. The patient is hospitalized in Quimarques U.T.I. says that the patient returned from Caldas Novas, after the extended holiday, with symptoms such as cough and fever. According to the doctor's time period not conducive to H1N1.



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Number of deaths caused by The swine flu more than doubled this year, in Goiania

The commercial representative Julio Cesar dos Reis, 57 years old, was the 7TH person to die by influenza A (H1N1) in Goiânia in 2000. He died four days after being hospitalized with flu-like symptoms, on 27 September. According to the Secretary of Health, the number of deaths due to the disease more than doubled in the capital in comparison with last year, when three deaths were recorded.


In spite of this, the director of Surveillance and Health, Fluvia Amorim, Discard the possibility of an outbreak and alert to the importance of vaccination, already that even we spent by period of greater index of contagion of influenza A. "Almost all cases of death were of unvaccinated persons and which formed part of the risk group. OR They had a chronic disease, or more than 60 years", he says.


One of the factors that aggravate the situation is the difficulty in diagnosing the disease. "It is not possible to know if the person it is common flu or H1N1. The initial symptoms are the same", explains Amorim. In addition, the test that confirms the presence or not of the virus can take up to 15 days to get ready.

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