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Source: http://www.lasegunda.com/ediciononline/cronica/detalle/index.asp?idnoticia=490446
Google translation:
International experts: Outbreak virus A (H1N1) started in Puerto Montt
Thursday June 11 2009
Source: El Mercurio Online
Team of specialists sent to the city determined that retrospective studies showed that it had "begun during the last week of April, days before the first confirmed case in Chile (May 17).
SANTIAGO .- After finishing a study of why Puerto Montt is the most serious cases of human influenza (20, 29), the international group of experts sent to the city concluded that the virus outbreak began in the Region Lake, prior to the submission of the first confirmed illness in Chile, on May 17.
This was reported epidemiologist and expert of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Elena Pedroni, who indicated that after the retrospective analysis "we obtained that the outbreak had begun in the last week of April."
The specialist, who along with experts from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States, and the Ministry of Health (Minsal), reviewed the progress of the disease in the country, said that such a scenario suggests that to date in this area there are "955 cases in total.
Despite the figure, Pedroni said that what happened in the capital of the Region X is part of the trend reported elsewhere in the world, so out it represents a case "exceptional."
"The figure found in Puerto Montt is similar to what is happening in the rest of the world, so it is not happening, nothing special, but still follows the same behavior that the epidemic in the world," he said.
Furthermore, Pedroni and specialists from the CDC found that the rapid spread of the virus A (H1N1) in Chile is due to coincide with the times more contagious seasonal influenza. "This is typical of the era," they said.
The expert group in Argentina led the Puerto Montt formed by Maritza Garcia (Department of Epidemiology Minsal), Veronica Esp?nola (Head of the Department of Infection Intrahospitalarias Minsal) and Mario Calvo (infectologists from Universidad Austral in Valdivia) and Francisco Arancibia ( president of the Chilean Society of Intensive Care Medicine), who assessed that additional measures can be implemented, given the high number of infection by the disease.
Google translation:
International experts: Outbreak virus A (H1N1) started in Puerto Montt
Thursday June 11 2009
Source: El Mercurio Online
Team of specialists sent to the city determined that retrospective studies showed that it had "begun during the last week of April, days before the first confirmed case in Chile (May 17).
SANTIAGO .- After finishing a study of why Puerto Montt is the most serious cases of human influenza (20, 29), the international group of experts sent to the city concluded that the virus outbreak began in the Region Lake, prior to the submission of the first confirmed illness in Chile, on May 17.
This was reported epidemiologist and expert of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Elena Pedroni, who indicated that after the retrospective analysis "we obtained that the outbreak had begun in the last week of April."
The specialist, who along with experts from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States, and the Ministry of Health (Minsal), reviewed the progress of the disease in the country, said that such a scenario suggests that to date in this area there are "955 cases in total.
Despite the figure, Pedroni said that what happened in the capital of the Region X is part of the trend reported elsewhere in the world, so out it represents a case "exceptional."
"The figure found in Puerto Montt is similar to what is happening in the rest of the world, so it is not happening, nothing special, but still follows the same behavior that the epidemic in the world," he said.
Furthermore, Pedroni and specialists from the CDC found that the rapid spread of the virus A (H1N1) in Chile is due to coincide with the times more contagious seasonal influenza. "This is typical of the era," they said.
The expert group in Argentina led the Puerto Montt formed by Maritza Garcia (Department of Epidemiology Minsal), Veronica Esp?nola (Head of the Department of Infection Intrahospitalarias Minsal) and Mario Calvo (infectologists from Universidad Austral in Valdivia) and Francisco Arancibia ( president of the Chilean Society of Intensive Care Medicine), who assessed that additional measures can be implemented, given the high number of infection by the disease.