Confirmed two deaths and 38 cases of influenza in Paraguay

[Ronan Kelly]

Google: Spanish to English translation
Confirmed two deaths and 22 cases of influenza in Paraguay
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

July 6, 2010, 18:15 Asunci?n, Jul 6 (Prensa Latina) Two people killed by the virus A (H1N1) and 22 confirmed cases of the disease is a balance to date of an influenza outbreak in five departments located more Asunci?n Paraguay.

The Director of Health Surveillance, Ivan Allende, said at a news conference that it was notified to the World Health Organization the status, which gives Paraguay the category of "country with localized transmission of this pandemic virus in the population" .

The cases of death relate to a woman and a man of Asuncion and Amambay, respectively, whose deaths were reported in as deaths from pneumonia and then the samples could be determined in the presence of the pandemic virus.

"We emphasize that in these cases are people aged 60 years and had comorbidities that led to the situation triggered in fatality," said the specialist, and called the risk groups to be immunized against influenza.

Of the 22 cases confirmed cases, six reported mild in Villarrica, Guaira (south central), four in Caazap? (south), one in Alto Paran? (East), three in Central (East), one in Amambay (northeast) and seven in Asuncion (west).

The specialist said that the axis of the country most affected is the conglomerates to the departments of this and predicted the possibility of pandemic virus spread to the territories adjacent to the affected areas.

Allende said that Paraguay never raised the pandemic alert, not eradicate the virus strain and remain in circulation, which resulted in mild cases.

"Five weeks ago we confirmed movement, but left the country, maybe the cases are not reported by his kindness," he said.

In this regard he warned that the climate is conducive for the existence of movement throughout the year, though, clarified that the transfer is more effective when the temperature is low.

Compared to last year, Allende said that there is a slight increase in the caseload, "but we have the peak of the pandemic influenza" in 2009, he said.
http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=203722&Itemid=1

 

[tetano]

Re: Confirmed two deaths and 22 cases of influenza in Paraguay

Re: Confirmed two deaths and 22 cases of influenza in Paraguay

Confirmed 5 cases of AH1N1 in Alto Paraná


The Tenth Sanitary Region Confirmed five cases of the flu AH1N1 in the High Parana. All the patients were already given of discharge and none was of gravity according to the doctors. Up to the date 211 patients were notified with suspicions of the illness of whom 26 gave negative to the examinations, 21 continue in process and 102 wait for the results. Be patients are of different districts of the department but they not all received internment since some patients were treated ambulatoriamente and they have improved, told the doctor Rubén Cardozo, epidemiólogo of the sanitary institution. The professional said that the virus of the H1N1 is already installed in the region and that it is necessary to take the elegant pertinent ones to avoid to fall ill. We already have Confirmed cases and there are others in studies that might Be confirmed. This is the epoch in which this type of illnesses appear with more frequency but we do not have so many cases of respiratory infections in comparison to last year and that gives us calmness, it pointed out. STATISTICS.
According to the statistics of the Regional Hospital of City of the East, from January up to the first fortnight of July, there registered 3.156 cases of respiratory light infections, 2.177 cases of pneumonia and 335 of respiratory sharp serious infections IRAG. The majority of the cases register in children younger than 1 years up to the 4. Also the adolescents prevail in the list up to 14 years. The rooms of internments of the welfare center at present meet colapsadas of patients respiratory problems and it is foreseen that the situation deteriorates with the intense days of cold. PLAN. For the next weeks the beginning of the emergency plan is foreseen to give major responses to the cases of IRA in the hospital. The project consists of enabling more beds to intern persons with these pathologies and to derive to other cases to other public hospitals, of way to avoid contagions. It is foreseen to adapt one or two rooms to more for receiving the persons with these infections that are proliferated during the winter.

http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/339653-Se-confirman-5-casos-de-AH1N1-en-Alto-Parana

 

[tetano]

Re: Confirmed two deaths and 22 cases of influenza in Paraguay

Re: Confirmed two deaths and 22 cases of influenza in Paraguay

ASUNCI?N (Digital ABC) - the holder of the Direction of Alertness of the Health, Iv?n Allende, informed that in Paraguay there are eight new cases of pandemic influenza that increase the cases to 30 in the whole country.

Up to the moment, two persons with H1N1 died because of complications, as expressed the professional.

The numbers of consultation stay low, with the exception of the zones where there is verified the circulation of the epidemic as Guair?, Caazap? and High place Parana. The most affected are children older than five years, adolescents and major adults.

He asked to the citizenship to wrap itself up correctly during the winter since ? we are in full activity of respiratory viruses in the country ?.

http://www.diariovanguardia.com.py/detalle_articulo.php?id_contenido=32763

 

[tetano]

Re: Confirmed two deaths and 30 cases of influenza in Paraguay

Re: Confirmed two deaths and 30 cases of influenza in Paraguay

Cases of H1N1 raise 38

The department of Public Health confirmed yesterday another eight cases of influenza H1N1, with what the number of affected rose up to 38. The quantity of deceased because of the pandemic virus is supported in 2, whereas the respiratory sharp serious infections (IRAG) already received from themselves 26 lives. Dr. Iv?n Allende, the director of Alertness of the Health, supported that at present approximately 6.000 weekly consultations register for pictures gripales, but that we am still not living through a peak of respiratory sharp infections. He remembered that, historically, in July it is when the biggest number of pictures registers gripales. Allende stood out except that the south axis, which understands the departments of ?eembuc?, Missions and Itap?a, it are those who register more than 100 cases of respiratory complaints for every 100 thousand inhabitants.
In similar conditions also they are: Paraguar?, Guair?, Mountain range, President Hayes, Concepcion and the city of Asunci?n. The physician pointed out that in these departments it are where there exists the biggest possibility of circulation of infectious agents, between which one finds the virus of influenza H1N1. He remembered except that serious cases might take place in pregnant women, children and chronic patients who did not receive the anti-flu vaccine. It indicated that the entire coverage of immunization reaches 75 %, and that the pandemic virus is not the one that prevails in this period. Also it did the named one to avoid the cases of hipotermia, supporting with sufficient overcoat the corporal temperature between 36 and 37 grades.

http://www.abc.com.py/abc/nota/156185-Casos-de-H1N1-suben-a-38/