Chile - H1N1 - First case confirmed + 1 = 2

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Chile Identifies First Swine Flu Victim, Erazo Says (Update1)

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By Nathan Gill and Sebastian Boyd

May 17 (Bloomberg) -- A 32-year-old woman became Chile?s first confirmed case of swine flu, Health Minister Alvaro Erazo told reporters today at a press conference in Santiago.

She arrived in Chile yesterday on Copa Airlines flight 437 from the Dominican Republic via Panama and is being treated in a Santiago hospital, he said. An airport fever-scanner detected her high temperature and the case was confirmed at midnight, Erazo said.

The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the world has risen to more than 8,400 in at least 39 countries, the World Health Organization said today on its Web site. Chilean health officials are trying to contact more than 100 other people who shared the flight with the woman, Erazo said.

?Chile has taken all the measures necessary to contain this outbreak,? Erazo said.

One other fellow passenger is being tested for a suspected case of swine flu, he said.

Separately, Chilean health officials tracked down and quarantined 23 people who shared a plane from New York to Lima with a woman who was later confirmed as Peru?s first swine flu patient, the health ministry said yesterday in a statement. Passengers and crew from the Lan Airlines SA flight later continued to Santiago, arriving in the early morning of May 10.

The government has more than 900,000 doses of antiviral drugs on hand to treat patients, the ministry said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Nathan Gill in Santiago at ngill4@bloomberg.net or Sebastian Boyd in Santiago at sboyd9@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: May 17, 2009 12:15 EDT

 

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Re: Chile - H1N1 - First case confirmed

Re: Chile - H1N1 - First case confirmed

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New case of H1N1 influenza in Chile:


Friend showed positive ex?menesLa affected women remain isolated and hospitalized in the Clinica D?vila, which is monitored by doctors.

El Mercurio Online Sunday May 17 2009 15:30

SANTIAGO .- A few hours that the Health Minister ?lvaro Erazo, had issued the first case of human influenza in Chile, this afternoon confirmed a second hit by the virus A (H1N1).

This was confirmed to The Mercury sources in the area of Health, who indicated that the review which was submitted showed positive.

The girl, a friend of the Chilean citizens who remains in the Chest Hospital and one which she shared with the Copa flight 437 from Dominican Republic [/ B], remains isolated and under observation at the clinic D?vila.

During the formalization of the first infection in the country, the minister Erazo said that the latter "constitutes what we define as epidemiological link, ie a person who was in the company of this person has been confirmed as a positive" .

To date, 163 were suspected of suffering from the virus in Chile, however, the Institute of Public Health (ISP) had been discarded.

The extreme Minsal resources to contact all passengers and crew of the aircraft which exceed the 100 people, akin to initiate containment measures, including voluntary confinement and free treatment with antivirals.

To do this, she responds Health Action Agenda, to make contact with potential affected had some contact with the woman who brought the virus. For those who came on the same flight and have not yet been located by Minsal, were asked to call 600 360 7777.

For now, relatives of two women with human influenza should be subject to such measures to prevent the spread of the disease.

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