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BOGOT?. At least four people have died this year as a result of the virus H1N1 in Bogot? and a neighboring municipality, said the director of public health in the Colombian capital, Jaime Hern?n Urrego.
Official explained that in the first five months of 2013 has been 101 cases of the virus, of whom three have been deadly in Bogot? and one in the municipality of Soacha, just south of the city but that it belongs to the Department of Cundinamarca (Center).
'There is confirmation that in the case of the death of three people in Bogota the test sent by the hospital was positive, however, must be analysed in each case the situation of that person, if he had any chronic disease or illness concurrent' said Urrego. Also said that deaths in the capital occurred in the last three weeks, while the person of Soacha died in late April. In this specific case, the official explained that the diagnosis of the hospital over the death of a 58-year-old man was due to pneumonia.
' The diagnosis of death is pneumonia, and it is a respiratory failure, but you have to be careful, because what is in the test analyzed in the laboratory is that also had H1N1, but that particular person had some chronic problems that could also lead to the death ', said. The official also reported that there has been an increase in the number of confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus, which in 2012 were 40 and 101 so far this year.
In the same way made it clear that there are about 580 thousand cases of respiratory diseases in general, confirming an increase from 2012, the year in which there were 516.000. 'We are at a peak of acute respiratory illness in Bogot? linked with the winter wave and environmental pollution which has resulting in an increase in cases of acute respiratory illness, and when this disease thickens leads to death ', said.
According to Urrego, Bogota health authorities monitored nine types of virus, one of them the H1N1 ' which is a circulating virus' because after the global pandemic of 2009 fell in the environment. (EFE)
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Official explained that in the first five months of 2013 has been 101 cases of the virus, of whom three have been deadly in Bogot? and one in the municipality of Soacha, just south of the city but that it belongs to the Department of Cundinamarca (Center).
'There is confirmation that in the case of the death of three people in Bogota the test sent by the hospital was positive, however, must be analysed in each case the situation of that person, if he had any chronic disease or illness concurrent' said Urrego. Also said that deaths in the capital occurred in the last three weeks, while the person of Soacha died in late April. In this specific case, the official explained that the diagnosis of the hospital over the death of a 58-year-old man was due to pneumonia.
' The diagnosis of death is pneumonia, and it is a respiratory failure, but you have to be careful, because what is in the test analyzed in the laboratory is that also had H1N1, but that particular person had some chronic problems that could also lead to the death ', said. The official also reported that there has been an increase in the number of confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus, which in 2012 were 40 and 101 so far this year.
In the same way made it clear that there are about 580 thousand cases of respiratory diseases in general, confirming an increase from 2012, the year in which there were 516.000. 'We are at a peak of acute respiratory illness in Bogot? linked with the winter wave and environmental pollution which has resulting in an increase in cases of acute respiratory illness, and when this disease thickens leads to death ', said.
According to Urrego, Bogota health authorities monitored nine types of virus, one of them the H1N1 ' which is a circulating virus' because after the global pandemic of 2009 fell in the environment. (EFE)
http://www.hoy.com.ec/noticias-ecua...-h1n1-en-bogota-y-sus-alrededores-582367.html