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Source: http://sdpnoticias.com/sdp/contenido/2009/07/21/450450
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Costa Rica Suspends Catholic feast maximum human influenza
July 21, 2009 - 16:46 --
San Jose, 21 Jul (Notimex) .- Catholic health authorities and Costa Rica announced today that it will be suspended for the first time the traditional pilgrimage, the highest Catholic feast of the country due to the proliferation of cases of human influenza.
At a news conference, the sources explained that there is a risk of infection for 1.0 percent of two million people participating in this year's massive pilgrimage devotion to Our Lady of the Angels, patroness of Costa Rica.
Indicated that there is danger due to the short distance, about 23 kilometers between the capital and the central city of Carthage, the seat of the Basilica de los Angeles, the sanctuary of the Virgin.
San Jose concentrates the highest number of cases of influenza in Costa Rica.
"It has been decided to suspend the pilgrimage this year (.) Can not play with the physical integrity of our people," said church spokesman Eddy Jorge Sol?rzano.
The festival was attended by some two million people and if one considers that, of that total, a 1.0 percent could be contagious, "talking about 20 thousand people in a very short period of time," said Minister of Health, Mary Luisa Avila.
The highest concentration of cases occurs in the province of San Jos? ", so that with the Pilgrimage," in the 72 hours following the dispersal of the virus for the rest of the country would be important, "said Avila, a medical infectologists.
The most recent data from the Ministry of Health indicate that since April 24, when Costa Rica became health alert, there have been more than five thousand cases of people suspected of contracting the virus AH1N1, 12 of which were fatal.
Google translation:
Costa Rica Suspends Catholic feast maximum human influenza
July 21, 2009 - 16:46 --
San Jose, 21 Jul (Notimex) .- Catholic health authorities and Costa Rica announced today that it will be suspended for the first time the traditional pilgrimage, the highest Catholic feast of the country due to the proliferation of cases of human influenza.
At a news conference, the sources explained that there is a risk of infection for 1.0 percent of two million people participating in this year's massive pilgrimage devotion to Our Lady of the Angels, patroness of Costa Rica.
Indicated that there is danger due to the short distance, about 23 kilometers between the capital and the central city of Carthage, the seat of the Basilica de los Angeles, the sanctuary of the Virgin.
San Jose concentrates the highest number of cases of influenza in Costa Rica.
"It has been decided to suspend the pilgrimage this year (.) Can not play with the physical integrity of our people," said church spokesman Eddy Jorge Sol?rzano.
The festival was attended by some two million people and if one considers that, of that total, a 1.0 percent could be contagious, "talking about 20 thousand people in a very short period of time," said Minister of Health, Mary Luisa Avila.
The highest concentration of cases occurs in the province of San Jos? ", so that with the Pilgrimage," in the 72 hours following the dispersal of the virus for the rest of the country would be important, "said Avila, a medical infectologists.
The most recent data from the Ministry of Health indicate that since April 24, when Costa Rica became health alert, there have been more than five thousand cases of people suspected of contracting the virus AH1N1, 12 of which were fatal.