East region has ?suspicious? AH1N1 virus cases, epidemiologist says
SANTO DOMINGO. ? The renown epidemiologist Dr Jesus Feris Iglesias said Monday that in Bavaro, La Altagracia province (east) an outbreak suspected of being the AH1N1 virus was detected, which not only affected tourists, but also employees of the hotels.
"Right now in Bavaro, there?s apparently a group of people, workers among them, who work in that tourist center, native of Dominican Republic, who are apparently affected," the physician said in an interview in the Z-101 radio program.
He said something is suspicious when a group of people who have the same characteristic symptoms, are suspected of having the disease until proven otherwise.
He said until now several nationals from Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Russia and one from the United States have tested positive for the virus after vacationing in Punta Cana.
The medical epidemiologist today accused Health minister Bautista Rojas of providing deceptive information on the virus, announcing negative tests from the analysis.
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The Dominican Republic said it was stepping up testing of people with flu symptoms after a Russian tourist who had spent 12 days at Punta Cana, the country's premier beach resort, was detected with the virus after he returned home.
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Dominican Republic's public health secretary, Bautista Rojas Gomez, said although none of the Caribbean state's citizens had so far been diagnosed with swine flu, the case of the Russian indicated the virus was present in the country.
"The virus is circulating. In the last few weeks the number of tourists in the zone has increased enormously and although this is good for the country economically, this increases the possibility of the virus circulating further," Rojas said.
Two Chileans and a Peruvian student who had spent time at Punta Cana were diagnosed with swine flu after leaving the Dominican Republic, according to media reports.
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SANTO DOMINGO. ? The renown epidemiologist Dr Jesus Feris Iglesias said Monday that in Bavaro, La Altagracia province (east) an outbreak suspected of being the AH1N1 virus was detected, which not only affected tourists, but also employees of the hotels.
"Right now in Bavaro, there?s apparently a group of people, workers among them, who work in that tourist center, native of Dominican Republic, who are apparently affected," the physician said in an interview in the Z-101 radio program.
He said something is suspicious when a group of people who have the same characteristic symptoms, are suspected of having the disease until proven otherwise.
He said until now several nationals from Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Russia and one from the United States have tested positive for the virus after vacationing in Punta Cana.
The medical epidemiologist today accused Health minister Bautista Rojas of providing deceptive information on the virus, announcing negative tests from the analysis.
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/lo...picious-AH1N1-virus-cases-epidemiologist-says
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The Dominican Republic said it was stepping up testing of people with flu symptoms after a Russian tourist who had spent 12 days at Punta Cana, the country's premier beach resort, was detected with the virus after he returned home.
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Dominican Republic's public health secretary, Bautista Rojas Gomez, said although none of the Caribbean state's citizens had so far been diagnosed with swine flu, the case of the Russian indicated the virus was present in the country.
"The virus is circulating. In the last few weeks the number of tourists in the zone has increased enormously and although this is good for the country economically, this increases the possibility of the virus circulating further," Rojas said.
Two Chileans and a Peruvian student who had spent time at Punta Cana were diagnosed with swine flu after leaving the Dominican Republic, according to media reports.
http://www.reuters.com/article/internal_ReutersNewsRoom_ExclusivesAndWins_MOLT/idUSTRE54P07620090526
