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Cuba on alert for outbreak of pandemic influenza A (H1N1)
Health officials warned that Cuba in the coming weeks pandemic influenza A (H1N1) could be reactivated in a second wave, noted the media on 19 of the island.
Doctors Otto Pel?ez, Antonio Marrero, members of the Technical Advisory Group for Pandemic Confrontation, said they expected an increase in the frequency of acute respiratory infections in the first months of the year.
During the winter season in Cuba are diagnosed every week between 80,000 and 100,000 cases of respiratory illness.
The specialists explained that increased influenza activity can increase the circulation of pandemic virus, which is currently prevailing in the world.
So far, in the Caribbean nation have been diagnosed 980 cases of influenza A and killed 41 people.Sources with the Ministry of Public Health reiterated calls for extreme measures of prevention in the home, schools, workplaces and social spaces, especially children and pregnant women.
A few days ago, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan, said that the pandemic would not be defeated until 2011, so it should be avoided, "the sense of complacency".
Until Jan. 8, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported approximately 12,799 cases in 208 countries since the pandemic began in April last year. (Xinhua)
20/01/2010
Cuba on alert for outbreak of pandemic influenza A (H1N1)
Health officials warned that Cuba in the coming weeks pandemic influenza A (H1N1) could be reactivated in a second wave, noted the media on 19 of the island.
Doctors Otto Pel?ez, Antonio Marrero, members of the Technical Advisory Group for Pandemic Confrontation, said they expected an increase in the frequency of acute respiratory infections in the first months of the year.
During the winter season in Cuba are diagnosed every week between 80,000 and 100,000 cases of respiratory illness.
The specialists explained that increased influenza activity can increase the circulation of pandemic virus, which is currently prevailing in the world.
So far, in the Caribbean nation have been diagnosed 980 cases of influenza A and killed 41 people.Sources with the Ministry of Public Health reiterated calls for extreme measures of prevention in the home, schools, workplaces and social spaces, especially children and pregnant women.
A few days ago, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan, said that the pandemic would not be defeated until 2011, so it should be avoided, "the sense of complacency".
Until Jan. 8, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported approximately 12,799 cases in 208 countries since the pandemic began in April last year. (Xinhua)
20/01/2010