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Maintain surveillance to eradicate the influenza A virus
After 21 days without registering positive cases of influenza can be said to stop the circulation. From the second week of May did not get positive results from influenza. We are awaiting samples from 59 suspected
Grace Viloria - gviloria@laverdad.com - Maracaibo - 5/24/2011 00:00 24
The report positive cases of H1N1 influenza A decrease in the state, but not for this reason, we must not neglect preventive measures against the virus, which from March to May sickened 93 people in the state. Health authorities are alert to prevent a possible resurgence of the disease, due to continuous rainfall.
Nelly Barboza, regional epidemiologist, states that even if results are positive for influenza, since the second week of May are still waiting of 59 suspicious samples sent to National Institute of Hygiene Rafael Rangel (INHR).
"The surveillance continues to show that the virus circulation ceased. To do this, wait a period of 21 days without showing any positive cases. After that time we can say that the virus stopped circulating. "
Recommends that people maintain adequate hygienic measures like washing your hands often, cover your mouth when coughing and to see a doctor if you develop respiratory symptoms.
As part of the established epidemiological fence in Zulia health agencies continue to vaccination and prevention to the virus. In health facilities following the vaccination campaign in the Americas to immunize children against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, tuberculosis, meningitis, influenza and hepatitis A and B.
In the case of adults is aimed at-risk population such as pregnant women and the elderly. Barboza adds that prevention against H1N1 will be permanent, because the dose was included in the routine schedule. "While we continue immunization vaccines. So far we have 300 000 vaccines given. "
In government hands
Francisco Arocha, infectious disease specialist and professor at the University of Zulia, qualifies as a normal event that rarely appears on both seasonal flu and the H1N1 virus in the country, because the reservoir is pigs and it is estimated that every so often you get infected from animal to human.
In his view, the duration of virus should not exceed three months, as long as people continue with preventive measures and vaccination. "A good prevention campaign would keep the virus away, because the act of passing from one person to another makes you lose strength and decrease cases."
As president of the Venezuelan Society of Infectious Diseases, estimates that every two years will be the presence of virus in the country, but depends on the health authorities to implement an effective vaccination plan, so that only occur sporadically and do not go to an outbreak or epidemic, "as happened in 2009 and repeated again in 2011."
Spanish to English translation
Maintain surveillance to eradicate the influenza A virus
After 21 days without registering positive cases of influenza can be said to stop the circulation. From the second week of May did not get positive results from influenza. We are awaiting samples from 59 suspected
Grace Viloria - gviloria@laverdad.com - Maracaibo - 5/24/2011 00:00 24
The report positive cases of H1N1 influenza A decrease in the state, but not for this reason, we must not neglect preventive measures against the virus, which from March to May sickened 93 people in the state. Health authorities are alert to prevent a possible resurgence of the disease, due to continuous rainfall.
Nelly Barboza, regional epidemiologist, states that even if results are positive for influenza, since the second week of May are still waiting of 59 suspicious samples sent to National Institute of Hygiene Rafael Rangel (INHR).
"The surveillance continues to show that the virus circulation ceased. To do this, wait a period of 21 days without showing any positive cases. After that time we can say that the virus stopped circulating. "
Recommends that people maintain adequate hygienic measures like washing your hands often, cover your mouth when coughing and to see a doctor if you develop respiratory symptoms.
As part of the established epidemiological fence in Zulia health agencies continue to vaccination and prevention to the virus. In health facilities following the vaccination campaign in the Americas to immunize children against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, tuberculosis, meningitis, influenza and hepatitis A and B.
In the case of adults is aimed at-risk population such as pregnant women and the elderly. Barboza adds that prevention against H1N1 will be permanent, because the dose was included in the routine schedule. "While we continue immunization vaccines. So far we have 300 000 vaccines given. "
In government hands
Francisco Arocha, infectious disease specialist and professor at the University of Zulia, qualifies as a normal event that rarely appears on both seasonal flu and the H1N1 virus in the country, because the reservoir is pigs and it is estimated that every so often you get infected from animal to human.
In his view, the duration of virus should not exceed three months, as long as people continue with preventive measures and vaccination. "A good prevention campaign would keep the virus away, because the act of passing from one person to another makes you lose strength and decrease cases."
As president of the Venezuelan Society of Infectious Diseases, estimates that every two years will be the presence of virus in the country, but depends on the health authorities to implement an effective vaccination plan, so that only occur sporadically and do not go to an outbreak or epidemic, "as happened in 2009 and repeated again in 2011."