Increasing trend of influenza A in Brazil

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The number of confirmed cases of pig flu in the Country already brings this year near to 361, with 50 deaths. Report spread by the Ministry of Health, with data up to the day 3 of April, shows that most of the cases are concentrated in the Northern region, with 56,2 % of the infections. Of the serious interned patients, 20 % is pregnant women. Up to the moment, still in accordance with the briefcase, 76 % of the registered deaths took place between women, 32 % between pregnant women.


" The data collected in the unities sentry show a tendency of growth of the cases of the disease in these last weeks ", affirmed the secretary of Vigilance in Health of the briefcase, Gerson Penna. In spite of the numbers, the adhesion of the population is still low to the campaign against the new flu.

Up to now 13,5 million persons were immunized, it it is equal to little more than 22 % of a respected public. The expectation is of what tomorrow, with the " day D " of the vaccination, the number of vaccinated persons increases in the significant form. " The vaccine is efficient, it holds.
I himself am going to take my four children in order that they were vaccinated tomorrow ", said the Minister of the Health, Jos? Gomes Tempor?o.

The biggest adhesion to the campaign up to now was registered between workers of health: 93,7 % of the group was already vaccinated. The numbers are much less expressive, however, in other groups. Up to now, 41,1 % of the pregnant women took vaccine. Between chronic patients, the porcentual of immunization is 32,8 %. " It is clear what this number preoccupies. The persons must look for posts of vaccination to be protected ", said Penna.

Tomorrow, all the 36 thousand posts of vaccination will have to be opened. The time-tables of functioning will be established by the local governments. Chronic patients must be immunized with fewer 60 years, pregnant, children of six months to two incomplete years and adult from 20 to 29 years.

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Re: Increasing trend of influenza A in Brazil

Women are the principal victims of swine flu, according to the Ministry of Health





Lifting of the Ministry of Health shows which women answer for most of the deaths and serious cases of influenza A (H1N1) ? pig flu in this year in Brazil. Of 50 deaths registered even of the day 3 of April, 76 % (38) belonged to women that they were not pregnant and 32 % (16) of pregnant women. Of 361 serious cases of the disease registered up to the same date, 20 % (74) was in pregnant women. In accordance with the ministry, one of the possible explanations in order that the pregnant ones are the principal victims of the disease would be made a list to their low immunity. The data of the ministry show that 41,1 % of the pregnant women was immunized up to the morning of today (9). The stage of vaccination of this group was extended up to the day 23 of April, for cause, according to Minister Jos? Gomes Tempor?o, of the vacation of Easter. Other data reveal 66,1 % of children's immunization of six months to fewer 2 years and 32,8 % of chronic patients with fewer 60 years.
Up to the moment, 10 % of the adults from 20 to 29 years were vaccinated - the stage of this age group began in the last Monday. The women who to get pregnant after his stage of vaccination can look for a health center and be immunized in the next phases. According to the Minister, 13,5 million Brazilians were already vaccinated from the beginning of the campaign in the day 8 of March up to the afternoon of today (9). The mark is to immunize around 72 million Brazilians.

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Re: Increasing trend of influenza A in Brazil

Par? has the biggest number of deaths caused by swine flu in this year


More than the half of the deaths registered in the country in this year because of the influenza A (H1N1) ? pig flu took place in the state of the Par?. Of 50 deaths up to the day 3 of April, 25 were in the territory from Par?. The Northern Region was the one that more registered deaths in this year, totalizing 33 cases. In accordance with the Ministry of Health, the cause is the period of rains in the region, which stimulates the collection of persons and makes easy the circulation of the virus. At according to place, it was the South Region, with eight cases (16 %). Still according to the Ministry of Health, North also led in number of serious cases. Of 361 cases, 203 were registered in the region. Three states of the North ? Rond?nia, Acre and Amazon - also appear between the unities of the Federation with the least covering of vaccination of the pig flu, initiated into the day 8 of March. According to the Minister of the Health, Jos? Gomes Tempor?o, the difficulty of access to the communities of the interior of these three Amazonian states is one of the causes of the low vaccinal covering.
The states with bigger vaccinal covering in the country healthy Maranh?o, Paran?, Saint Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. In last year, the South Region registered a great number of cases of the disease.

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