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Experts expect a surge of flu after the start of school (Catalonia)
ENVIRONMENT-HEALTH HEALTH |> AREA: Public health
01.11.2011 / 15:00 h
Barcelona, 11 feb (EFE) .- In the next two weeks are expected in Catalonia a surge in the number of flu cases, after restart the school year, as happens every year at this time, according to Efe said Josep Maria Argim?n, responsible for the Comprehensive Emergency Plan for Catalonia (PIUC).
Argim?n noted that currently, the incidence of influenza can be considered as moderate, rising, and with a rate of 189 cases per 100,000 population, a situation which is technically an epidemic because it exceeded 100 cases per hundred thousand .
Regarding the expected increase around the holidays, he remarked that children are the main group affected, with 297 cases per 100,000 population, and expected that the incidence is higher among this group.
It has also ensured that the flu last year was unusual because it was entering a new virus bound, H1N1, which is included in the vaccine this season, which is dominant this year, as more than half of cases are of this type of flu.
On the affected recalled that the highest incidence of flu occurs in children under 14 years and lower among those vaccinated over 65 years of age.
The effect it is having the flu emergency care from Health has indicated that last week 69,735 were treated in hospital emergency visits, which account for 15% more than last year at this time, and not we can talk about collapse, but there is a delay in the care of less serious cases.
Miquel Sanchez, emergency coordinator of Clinical added that in mid-December were detected the first cases of flu and now is in a plateau phase.
She acknowledged that the flu is causing some delays in emergency care for non-emergent, about four hours and the afternoon is when there is more influx of patients, but the wait is not excessive for this time of year.
She also pointed out that the Clinic has been reorganized in late November emergencies, and are getting very positive results on delay times because the service is organized according to levels of urgency.
Thus, less serious go to a place with resources commensurate with the most urgent and other real urgency to a more specific, a more rational activity has increased by 11 percent. EFE
Spanish to English translation
News agencies
Experts expect a surge of flu after the start of school (Catalonia)
ENVIRONMENT-HEALTH HEALTH |> AREA: Public health
01.11.2011 / 15:00 h
Barcelona, 11 feb (EFE) .- In the next two weeks are expected in Catalonia a surge in the number of flu cases, after restart the school year, as happens every year at this time, according to Efe said Josep Maria Argim?n, responsible for the Comprehensive Emergency Plan for Catalonia (PIUC).
Argim?n noted that currently, the incidence of influenza can be considered as moderate, rising, and with a rate of 189 cases per 100,000 population, a situation which is technically an epidemic because it exceeded 100 cases per hundred thousand .
Regarding the expected increase around the holidays, he remarked that children are the main group affected, with 297 cases per 100,000 population, and expected that the incidence is higher among this group.
It has also ensured that the flu last year was unusual because it was entering a new virus bound, H1N1, which is included in the vaccine this season, which is dominant this year, as more than half of cases are of this type of flu.
On the affected recalled that the highest incidence of flu occurs in children under 14 years and lower among those vaccinated over 65 years of age.
The effect it is having the flu emergency care from Health has indicated that last week 69,735 were treated in hospital emergency visits, which account for 15% more than last year at this time, and not we can talk about collapse, but there is a delay in the care of less serious cases.
Miquel Sanchez, emergency coordinator of Clinical added that in mid-December were detected the first cases of flu and now is in a plateau phase.
She acknowledged that the flu is causing some delays in emergency care for non-emergent, about four hours and the afternoon is when there is more influx of patients, but the wait is not excessive for this time of year.
She also pointed out that the Clinic has been reorganized in late November emergencies, and are getting very positive results on delay times because the service is organized according to levels of urgency.
Thus, less serious go to a place with resources commensurate with the most urgent and other real urgency to a more specific, a more rational activity has increased by 11 percent. EFE