Cuba: A/H1N1 cases - 468

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Source: http://about.reuters.com/dynamic/countrypages/mexico_es/1242821239nN20491523.ASP


Cuba fourth reported case of influenza A H1N1: Government
20 May 2009 08:07

HAVANA, May 20 (Reuters) - Cuba reported a new case of influenza H1N1, a Canadian baby, leading to four the number of infected on the island, said Wednesday an official note circulated in the press by the Ministry of Public Health .

The Cuban government said the three previous cases detected in three Mexican fellows have developed satisfactorily and were discharged.

Mexican students had returned to Havana after having enjoyed a holiday in their country.

"In today confirms fourth case. This is a Canadian child 14 months old, who arrived in Cuba with his parents from Toronto (...) and had fever and respiratory symptoms (.. .), "said the notice published in state newspapers.

The child has developed satisfactorily and is now asymptomatic, was maintained with entiviral specific treatment, "said the statement.

Health authorities said last week that the island had about 100 patients suspected of suffering from the new strain of influenza that has infected more than 8,000 people and has expanded to 40 countries.

The epidemic of influenza has killed in Mexico, the epicenter of the disease, at least 70 people.

(Reporting by Nelson Acosta; edited by Patricia Avila)

REUTERS NAB PAD

 

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Re: Cuba: AH1N1 cases- 5

Re: Cuba: AH1N1 cases- 5

Source: http://www.ansa.it/ansalatina/notizie/notiziari/cuba/20090607151934893046.html

Cuba confirmed fifth case of influenza A (H1N1)

HAVANA, 7 (ANSA) - Cuba today fifth confirmed case of influenza A, which affects a Canadian tourist 62 years old who arrived on June 2 to the city of Santiago de Cuba, east of the country.
"On June 6 was the fifth confirmed case of a patient with Influenza A virus (H1N1) that is associated with the current epidemic in the world," reported a note from the Ministry of Public Health in the local press.
The communique said that the patient came from Toronto and was detected in a control to passengers by means of a temperature sensor located in a fever.
Women are detained in the Provincial Hospital Juan Bruno Zayas "for study and treatment center in the remaining revenue," reported the paper.
"The evolution of the patient is favorable," said the note, and reiterated a call to the Cuban people to take further measures for personal hygiene.
The four previous cases of people infected with influenza A virus were also foreigners, three Mexican students and a Canadian child on holiday in the country. DFB
07/06/2009 15:19

 

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Re: Cuba: AH1N1 cases- 9

Re: Cuba: AH1N1 cases- 9

Source: http://www.radioangulo.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5316&Itemid=28

Google translation:

Cuba confirms two cases of Influenza A (H1N1)
For AIN / Tuesday June 16 2009 / editorweb@radioangulo.icrt.cu

Influenza cases reported in Cuba are people from outside
(Jun. 16) On the night of Sunday the Laboratory of Virology of the IPK confirmed number eight and nine cases of Influenza A (H1N1) associated with the current global epidemic.

The first one is a Cuban boy of twelve years, living in Tampa, Florida, which arrived in Cuba on June 7 and three days later at home by research conducted in the municipality of East Havana, it was learned that had the Symptoms of the disease. Immediately he was admitted for care and monitoring as established. Currently receiving hospital treatment with favorable results.

The ninth case is a Canadian girl who arrived four years of Holguin in the company of his parents on June 6, goes to a doctor for 11 days served on the fever, redness of the throat and general malaise since June 7 . He was admitted to the Provincial Pediatric Hospital of Holguin, where he is moving and receives the attention and care required.

In both cases, epidemiological investigations are conducted for the contacts of patients who have remained asymptomatic, and are given the specific antiviral prophylaxis.

To this day have been nine confirmed cases of Influenza A (H1N1), all people coming from abroad. This reinforces the importance of active surveillance measures to prevent epidemics and local transmission of the same, which has been achieved in these 53 days of global epidemic.

Therefore reiterates the importance of monitoring clinical epidemiological anyone from outside, during the ten days following their arrival in our country, and that the presence or catarrhal fever, his or her contacts in Cuba be submitted immediately to the nearest clinic or health facility concerned.

Ministry of Public Health
15 June 2009

 

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Re: Cuba: AH1N1 cases- 13

Re: Cuba: AH1N1 cases- 13

Cuba confirms four new cases of Influenza A (H1N1)

Official Note of the Ministry of Public Health in Cuba

In today's Virology Laboratory IPK four new confirmed cases of Influenza A H1N1:

- A child of four years of U.S. nationality, resident in Florida, United States, who arrived in Cuba with his mother on June 6.

- A woman of 73 years, Cuba, which remained in the United States since April 21 and returned on June 11.

- A man of 26 years, Cuban, which arrived in Cuba on June 12 from Alcala de Henares, Spain.

- A woman of 45 years, Cuban, which arrived in Cuba on June 11 from Toronto, Canada.

The four patients are admitted to meet the medical indications that have been established for each of them and their evolution is favorable. Epidemiological investigations are carried out to their contacts, who have remained asymptomatic.

It reiterates the need to immediately go to health services in the presence of fever or respiratory symptoms.

With these new cases accumulate a total of 13, all arrivals to Cuba from abroad. Henceforth the information on this topic will be announced on Friday of each week.

Ministry of Public Health
16 June 2009
7: 00 p.m.

http://www.cadenahabana.cu/noticias/nacionales/noticias01170609.htm

 

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Re: Cuba: A/H1N1 cases- 15

Re: Cuba: A/H1N1 cases- 15

Source: http://www.escambray.cu/Esp/noticia/Cvirusah1n1090619909.htm

Google translation:

June 19, 2009

Cuba

Two new cases of Influenza A (H1N1) in Cuba

Havana (PL) The Virology Laboratory of the Instituto Pedro Kouri (IPK) of Cuba confirmed two new cases of Influenza A (H1N1) in people from abroad, for a total of 15 infected.

According to an official note circulated in the newspaper Granma, on Tuesday, June 16 to date of the Laboratory of Virology IPK found the virus in two travelers from the United States.

The two men are infected, a 26-year-old Cuban American who came June 14 from Texas, United States, and another 17-year-old American citizen who arrived here last 13 days from Miami, Florida.

Both were checked at the Jos? Mart? International Airport and detected with fever by a temperature sensor, the report added.

The two are admitted, meet the medical indications that have been established for each and their evolution is favorable, he concluded.

 

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Re: Cuba: A/H1N1 cases- 46

Re: Cuba: A/H1N1 cases- 46

Cuba increased vigilance against new virus A (H1N1)

Havana (PL) Health authorities in Cuba will increase its surveillance measures, the 31 new confirmed cases of Influenza A (H1N1) since last Friday.

A note from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported that the 46 cases detected in this country -20 children and 26 adults, and most developing well and was discharged care.

In the last 31 cases detected by the Tropical Medicine Institute Pedro Kouri, 16 were imported: 11 United States, two from Mexico, two from Canada and one from Chile.

The rest of those infected are linked directly with Cuban people from abroad, who were confirmed disease.

The World Health Organization reported yesterday to 57 thousand 891 infected and 255 deaths in the pandemic of the so-called "swine flu" in 109 countries.

The MINSAP confirms that Cuba has the organizational skills and materials to deal with such situations.

http://www.escambray.cu/Esp/noticia/Cvirusah1n1090626902.htm

 

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Re: Cuba: A/H1N1 cases - 109

Re: Cuba: A/H1N1 cases - 109

According to PAHO, Cuba has 109 A/H1N1 influenza cases.

 

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Re: Cuba: A/H1N1 cases - 144

Re: Cuba: A/H1N1 cases - 144

Source: http://www.ansa.it/ansalatina/notizie/notiziari/cuba/20090713152434913672.html


CUBA
FLU: CUBA CASE REPORT 144, no death

HAVANA, 13 (ANSA) - Cuba has reported from the onset of the influenza virus AH1N1 a total of 144 cases, of which 112 were medical, unrecorded deaths reported by the Ministry of Public Health.
Of the 144 cases (93 adults and 51 children), said an article published today in the newspaper Granma, Cuba reached 84 infected: 40 foreigners, 34 Cubans living abroad and 10 Cubans who returned from a stay in various countries.
36 others were infected by sick Cubans from abroad, and 24 are indigenous, that is, infected the majority of cases brought after, said the note.
A total of 266,501 people were subject to checks on arrival at airports in the country, found more than 150 suspected cases, of which 10 were confirmed.
More than 3,000 people suspected of carrying the disease virological studies. (ANSA). MRZ
13/07/2009 15:24

 

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Re: Cuba: A/H1N1 cases - 468

Source: http://www.milenio.com/node/297440


Amounts to 468 cases of human influenza in Cuba

Deputy Health Minister of Cuba said Monday that pregnant women, a group highly susceptible to influenza A/H1N1 virus, are being treated in intensive care services in the country and are discharged when retrieved.

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Havana-Deputy Health Minister of Cuba, Luis Estruch, reported Wednesday that the country reported 468 cases of confirmed influenza, including more than 150 children, and said there have been registered "several dozen" serious pregnant women.

Speaking to the newspaper Granma, the official said on Monday that pregnant women, a group highly susceptible to influenza A/H1N1 virus, are being treated in intensive care services in the country and are discharged when retrieved (recovered?).

He said they are "very likely" the brain of children with disabilities and people with chronic conditions like diabetes, asthma, respiratory disorders, heart disease and immunodeficiencies, and obese people.

A 165 days of initiating the human influenza pandemic, Estruch warned that covers five continents and has led to far more than four thousand 500 deaths confirmed by virological studies.

The so-called "second wave" has just begun in the Northern Hemisphere with the early onset of autumn and, according to criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO), may be more intense than the last.

"Cuba is located in this environment," said the deputy minister in charge of the area of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Ministry of Public Health, who said health officials are "more uneasy" with the rapid spread of the virus.

He said the greatest danger in this Caribbean nation today is that "there exists in the population an understanding of the risks to life that behaves this pandemic.

"There is a common flu, is a new virus capable of triggering on short time, a serious lung disease, although 80 percent of patients passed without complications," he said and recalled the key preventive measures.

Estruch said that Cuba bought the seasonal influenza vaccine (which is not specific to the H1N1 virus), which has been operating for the past three years the population groups most at risk.

Cuba has requested the cooperation of WHO / PAHO to purchase the new vaccine against the H1N1 virus, whose application in some developed countries has been highly effective and of high cost, in order to manage people more susceptible to the virus, he said.
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