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Costa Rica: Suspect deaths

Shiloh

Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.diarioextra.com/2009/julio/23/nacionales01.php

Google translation:

Investigating the deaths of two women for influenza
Classes will resume on Monday

? Less than a year died from the virus AH1N1
Gerardo Saenz Valverde
gsaenz@diarioextra.com

At present, 84 patients are isolated in different hospitals, two of which are confirmed as carriers of the virus AH1N1 (EFE).

The primary and secondary students from public and private schools would return on Monday July 27 to lessons after half term holidays, which were extended by a week due to the increase in cases of influenza virus, sources who preferred anonymity.

DAILY EXTRA tried to contact the owner of Health, Mar?a Luisa ?vila, to confirm the version, but it was not possible to locate it. For this afternoon, the faculty, accompanied by Minister of Education, Leonardo Garnier, made the official announcement on the subject.

Due to the length of the school holiday period, there has been a significant increase of people attending crowded places such as cinemas, parks, museums, discos and bars, among others, representing a risk for infection.
INVESTIGATE DEATHS

Until yesterday it was confirmed 560 cases, 13 deaths, 728 cases of analysis, were discarded and 3733 reported from April 24 until yesterday amounted to 5021.

The latest victim was a woman of 40 years with lung problems who was admitted to a provincial hospital, complications of the disease and died despite receiving treatment.

Health authorities also are investigating the deaths of two women in the Max Peralta Hospital in Cartago. The first case concerns a female of 63 years of age, which had chronic renal disease, cardiac problems and had rinopat?a. The second case corresponds to a woman 47 years old, died of pneumonia, had problems of smoking and had severe malnutrition. Today will be known if the women died from the virus AH1N1.

Yesterday denied that the boy died a year at the National Hospital Carlos S?enz Herrera last Sunday has died from influenza.
OVER 100 hospitalized TS

Until July 22, reported 110 people were hospitalized, 84 are isolated, two of them are carriers of influenza virus. In Intensive Care Units of the Hospitals of the country are 26 patients, 9 of them with the virus AH1N1.

Hospitals that have inpatient are as follows: 31 Calder?n Guardia, San Juan de Dios 26, National Children 17, Mexico 9, San Vicente de Paul de Heredia 13, Max Peralta in Cartago 6, White 1 Cervantes, and 10 private hospitals .

RECOMMENDATIONS

Health authorities recommend again to the people not to greet or kiss his hand, measures to maintain personal hygiene, washing hands frequently and use the forearm or handkerchief when coughing and sneezing, not smoking or avoid visiting places where closed smoking is permitted and to keep a distance to reduce the risk of contagion.

Pregnant women and persons who have any chronic disease should avoid attending shows massive ventilated or sites where there are few large population groups.
 
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