Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 May 17, 2009 to June 12, 2009

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Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 1,694; ten? in serious condition

Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 1,694; ten? in serious condition

Source: http://www.soitu.es/soitu/2009/06/10/info/1244600116_645570.html

Chilean authorities say that confirmed cases of influenza A added 1694

EFE
Updated 10-06-2009 04:15 CET

Santiago de Chile .- The Chilean health authorities confirmed today that the influenza A in this country and 1694 people infected, the highest number of the nations of South America.

According to the Institute of Public Health, believes the figure since May 17, when it was announced that the first affected by influenza A, until June 8, and two fatalities.

The report reflects a portion of the total cases, because, according to specified authorities, there is an undetermined number of cases that have not been confirmed by the examination taken by the Institute of Public Health.

1.7 per cent of confirmed cases has required hospitalization and a 0.12 percent (2 cases) had died, said the state agency.

This situation is similar to that seen in United States, where there is a low rate of hospitalization (7.8%) and deaths (0.2%), added the ISP.

He added that 63 percent of reported cases is now healthy and 35.3 percent of patients are at home without complications.

School children (between 5 and 19 years) were the most affected.

Until the end of this report in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago there were 63 schools with confirmed cases, representing 2.2% of total establishments in the Chilean capital.

Meanwhile, the undersecretary of health care networks, Julio Montt, said Tuesday that as of next week and for a period could be extended from 15 to 21 days would lead to the highest level of influenza A infection, because the virus has spread beyond the neighborhoods of east sector of Santiago.

According to projections from the Ministry of Health, the number of outpatient visits in the adult population will grow by 50 per adult, about 5 thousand people per day.

 

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Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 1,694; ten? in serious condition

Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 1,694; ten? in serious condition

Source: http://noticias.123.cl/entel123/html/Tele13/Noticias/Chile/380778.html

Google translation:

Human influenza: Minsal reported 1694 people infected

Health authorities are investigating a possible third case would be a serious patient of 49 years.

The Ministry of Health reported a total of 1694 cases of H1N1 virus in our country, of which only 1.7 percent of those affected had to be placed and a 0.12 percent have died.

For the final report, is given the possible emergence of a serious case for a woman of 49 years in the town of Lota and who remains in serious internal Intensive Care Unit Hospital Guillermo Grant Benavente de Concepci?n.

The communique Minsal realizes that the other 63 percent of all cases are now recovered, while 35.3 percent are in their homes without major complications.

Another aspect that the authorities were informed of Health states that schoolchildren were the worst affected. In fact, in the metropolitan area, there are 63 establishments that have confirmed cases of H1N1 virus.

 

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Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 1,694; ten? in serious condition

Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 1,694; ten? in serious condition

Source: http://diario.elmercurio.com/2009/06/11/nacional/nacional/noticias/E005839D-B591-4725-B1AA-5C838DBA1C2A.htm?id={E005839D-B591-4725-B1AA-5C838DBA1C2A}

Google translation:

World Health Organization warns: "The virus is still spreading around the world"
Chile is prepared to top-level declaration of human pandemic influenza

The Minsal is preparing a special decree to deal with six levels of the contagious enfermedad.Anoche American experts arrived in the country to advise the authorities and specialists to the Chilean virus.

Uziel G?MEZ

The Ministry of Health prepared a special decree to the possibility that the World Health Organization (WHO) defines as a "pandemic" outbreak of human influenza.

Health Minister ?lvaro Erazo, took a video yesterday with representatives of WHO and the five most affected countries in addition to Chile, United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia and United Kingdom.

Experts from the U.S.

The decree would allow the ministry to have additional powers to deal with the virus A (H1N1), although this does not imply a significant change in the overall budget.

Any statement of the level six of the pandemic does not mean that the disease is more lethal, but the transmission would be faster, which triggered a national plan to "minimize the impact of the pandemic."

The minister said that experts from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States, arrived in Chile last night, and stay for 24 hours to analyze the outbreak.

"They will make an analysis of the evolution of human influenza in our country, founded on the need for preventive measures to shape global," Erazo said.

The four specialists from the CDC will meet with officials and experts from the Ministry of Health, and the equipment is in Puerto Montt investigate why the city has the most serious cases.

The owner of Health met for more than 30 minutes with President Bachelet to deliver a detailed report on the status of the virus.

WHO acknowledged that the declaration of a pandemic, which pass the current 5 to 6 - is imminent.

"We know that the virus is still spreading around the world and that the same activity is increasing in different countries. We are ever closer to a pandemic situation, but WHO is working hard to prepare the country for people" , said the deputy general director, Keiji Fukuda.

"We want to understand very clearly the message that if we declare the pandemic phase 6, it means that the virus is spreading and that there is contagion in stable communities in countries of different regions," said Fukuda.

The first infection

According to the latest balance sheet delivered yesterday by the World Health Organization (WHO), Chile is the country that is suffering from influenza in the human world if the measurement is in percentage terms.

Ie, considering the number of cases as the population of each nation.

In this way, Chile, which recorded the date 1694, has infected a 0.0102 percentage of patients on a total of 16,601,707 inhabitants.

The latter figure is the population that "The World Factbook, the CIA estimated that the country is in July this year.

Patient suspected of virus A (H1N1) died in Osorno

SOLEDAD NEIRA and Fabio ?LVAREZ

The death of a woman with flu symptoms Osorno became yesterday a new product is suspected of having died of the virus A (H1N1).

This was confirmed by sources of Health, who noted that due to the sudden crisis that cost him his life, he drew a sample for post mortem analysis on the ISP.

Then there is the appearance in the Lake of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus, who has six children with severe and connected to mechanical ventilator at the Hospital de Puerto Montt. The targeted compound suspended its operations to concentrate resources on respiratory disease affecting the area.

ISP dismisses case

Last night the SEREMI Health Biob?o denied that the journalist Pamela Fernandez has died of human influenza infection, after receiving the test results in real-time PCR, ISP, located in the metropolitan area.

The women presented a picture of worsening failure that led to his death at the Regional Hospital, about 2130, on Tuesday.

This event caused great concern in the capital penquista therefore would have been the first victim of the virus in the area.

Pamela Fernandez (41) was a Spanish teacher and journalist, married and mother of a daughter of 12 years. No no triggering condition deteriorated so quickly.

The victim attended a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms on Monday, which consulted on Tuesday morning in the hospital. He entered with no major medical problems, but worsened during the day due to a decompensation of the respiratory tract, which led to his admission to the ICU and died in the night.

Unemployment Castro

The Health Service Chilo? joined a new problem to the region. A large number of infections and serious cases in Lagos, yesterday, officials of the Hospital de Castro met the tenth day of demonstrations. Require the hiring of 186 professionals parama?dicos to plant health care, because in current conditions are collapsed.

The situation was the topic at the regional council, where the criticism aimed at the health authorities for not solving the conflict because of the urgency involved in suspected cases of human influenza on the island of Chilo?.

1,694
persons infected with human influenza until June 8. There are 2 fatal cases.

"If we declare the pandemic phase 6, it means the virus is spreading and that there is contagion in stable communities in countries of different regions."

Keiji Fukuda
WHO Director-General

Postponement

La Ruta Quetzal BBVA 2009 postponed the stage XXIV of the American edition of June 19 and July 8 to 12 and December 31, to prevent possible infections.

 

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Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,335; ten? in serious condition

Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,335; ten? in serious condition

Source: http://www.lasegunda.com/ediciononline/cronica/detalle/index.asp?idnoticia=490646

Google translation:


Minsal: Cases of influenza A (H1N1) in 2335 reached the country
Friday June 12, 2009
Source: El Mercurio Online

The health authority said that children between 5 and 19 years have been most affected by the disease.

SANTIAGO .- Almost 600 new cases were confirmed by the Institute of Public Health (ISP) in recent days, which amounted to 2335 the number of infections by influenza A (H1N1) in the country.

The last report of the Ministry of Health (Minsal) showed that in Chile there were 1694 affected, a number that was largely superseded by the report submitted Friday by the health authority.

The 2335 patients corresponding to the period between May 17, when the ISP confirmed the first case of infection, until June 10, and considers both the public and some private.

Additionally, there are people who are consulting in emergency services of hospitals and clinics, which are cases that do not require laboratory confirmation, according to the guide-Minsal clinic and are not considered in the figure previously reported.

In relation to the confirmed cases, 2.4 percent required hospitalization and a 0.08 (2 cases) died. This situation is similar to that observed in United States, where there is a low percentage of hospitalization (7.8%) and deaths (0.2).

School children (between 5 and 19 years) were the most affected. Until the end of this report in the metropolitan area there were 141 establishments with confirmed cases (representing 4.9% of total establishments in the Region).

 

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Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,335; fifty-six in serious condition

Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,335; fifty-six in serious condition

Source: http://lta.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idLTASIE55C01220090613

Google translation:

Cases of new strain of influenza in Chile to climb 2335
Friday June 12, 2009 21:29 GYT


SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile announced on Friday that cases of infection by the influenza shot AH1N1 to 2335, with 56 in serious condition, consolidating the country as the nation of South America with a greater number of persons reported with virus so far.

Chile has had an explosive increase in confirmed cases of the new strain of influenza amid a drop in temperatures at the gates of the southern winter and last week reported two fatalities due to the virus.

The Ministry of Health said the new influenza virus is circulating "so important" in Santiago, specifically in the area east of the capital, and the Southern Lakes region, especially in the city of Puerto Montt.

Of the cases confirmed until June 10, only 2.4 percent required hospitalization.

"Most of the regions with confirmed cases reported, an increase of outpatient visits for the next week and a 'peak' (peak) in the next two or three weeks," the Ministry said in a statement.

A man aged 37 died on Monday of last week in Puerto Montt because of the new strain of flu and came two days after the death of another man, 56 years, due to the same reason in the neighboring city of Osorno.

(Reporting by Rodrigo Martinez, Edited by Juana Casas)

 

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Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,335; fifty-six in serious condition

Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,335; fifty-six in serious condition

Is Chile providing any information on the ratio of novel H1N1 to seasonal strains?

 

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Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,335; fifty-six in serious condition

Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,335; fifty-six in serious condition

In Post #19 it was reported that 90% at that time was A/H1N1. Have not seen mention of a percentage since then.

 

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Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,335; fifty-six in serious condition

Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 - 2,335; fifty-six in serious condition

Thanks, I was wondering if there was anything newer than that.

 

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Re: Chile: Confirmed Cases H1N1 May 17, 2009 to June 12, 2009

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