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Seasonal influenza alert
Note Health | Department of Health Jalisco | Influenza.
Confirmed cases of influenza season to date are 165. ARCHIVE
◦ Suspected cases have tripled in the Civil
If not addressed properly, the disease can be complicated and lead to pneumonia, requiring hospitalization
GUADALAJARA, JALISCO (17/DIC/2010) .- The seasonal influenza epidemic alert in Jalisco is no minor issue, so medical authorities should be more vigilant in cases of respiratory diseases because the clinical pictures of this disease can be as severe as they were when they introduced the H1N1 virus.
The rector of the University Center for Health Sciences (CUCS), University of Guadalajara (University of Guadalajara), H?ctor Ra?l P?rez G?mez, warns that a seasonal influenza infection in vulnerable groups such as children under five and adults over 60, can have serious repercussions if not treated in time.
"The pictures can be pictures with complications such as pneumonia, and may even require hospitalization and intubation."
Although the number of cases of seasonal flu does not compare to what was experienced during 2009 with the human influenza pandemic, an outbreak of this flu is a health alert in which it is lodged.
A couple of weeks to date, suspected cases of seasonal influenza, also called H3N2, have tripled in the Civil Hospital of Guadalajara, in 30% of the patients have tested positive for the disease.
While epidemiological alert is not to close schools or suspend work, as happened with the last pandemic, hygiene measures and care should be the same. What is important, consider infectious, is not to underestimate the disease, since it is already causing a large number of infections across the country.
According to P?rez G?mez, the fact that the holiday period approaches can be very helpful to prevent contagion in schools. However, at this time are increased social obligations, such as inns or meetings, and attendance at trade places with a high concentration of people, increasing the chance of transmission.
Recommendations to avoid infection
Constant hand-washing.
-Use hand sanitizer gel.
"Do not go to crowded places.
To apply the vaccine in risk groups.
Young and pregnant women most affected
Infections increase
Although the seasonal flu virus affects all population groups, especially the children and the elderly, the Health Ministry Jalisco (SSJ) reports that there has been an increase in infections among young people of reproductive age, more those with risk factors such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, among other diseases.
The head of epidemiology at the agency, Lucia Salazar Montes, warns that not only has increased the number of cases in young and pregnant, but these have developed serious cases of the disease, so some have needed to be hospitalized.
"Whenever the respiratory processes are very common in children and in people older than 65 years, but right now is occurring in all age groups, is having a similar frequency in people of working age, which is not usual in breathing time. "
Ask doctors to "think influenza"
In general, suspected cases of seasonal influenza have increased in the past two months, so an alert is sent by the disease epidemiological health institutions to "think about flu" when you get patients with symptoms of respiratory disease, and give the medicine on time.
The doctor reports that, although nothing compared to what happened last year, when they had the H1N1 pandemic virus, which is looking to avoid complications in patients.
"It emphasizes the importance of the doctor treating a respiratory process thinks it might be influenza, which remind the operational definition, and people with a table and be given immediate medical treatment, especially those with risk factors. "
Over the weeks, registering less than 30 samples of suspected cases of influenza per week, increased to more than 100, according to the latest report from the State Laboratory of the SSJ.
Confirmed cases of influenza season to date are 165.. APPROPRIATIONS: Reporter Editorial / EHOG
Spanish to English translation
Seasonal influenza alert
Note Health | Department of Health Jalisco | Influenza.
Confirmed cases of influenza season to date are 165. ARCHIVE
◦ Suspected cases have tripled in the Civil
If not addressed properly, the disease can be complicated and lead to pneumonia, requiring hospitalization
GUADALAJARA, JALISCO (17/DIC/2010) .- The seasonal influenza epidemic alert in Jalisco is no minor issue, so medical authorities should be more vigilant in cases of respiratory diseases because the clinical pictures of this disease can be as severe as they were when they introduced the H1N1 virus.
The rector of the University Center for Health Sciences (CUCS), University of Guadalajara (University of Guadalajara), H?ctor Ra?l P?rez G?mez, warns that a seasonal influenza infection in vulnerable groups such as children under five and adults over 60, can have serious repercussions if not treated in time.
"The pictures can be pictures with complications such as pneumonia, and may even require hospitalization and intubation."
Although the number of cases of seasonal flu does not compare to what was experienced during 2009 with the human influenza pandemic, an outbreak of this flu is a health alert in which it is lodged.
A couple of weeks to date, suspected cases of seasonal influenza, also called H3N2, have tripled in the Civil Hospital of Guadalajara, in 30% of the patients have tested positive for the disease.
While epidemiological alert is not to close schools or suspend work, as happened with the last pandemic, hygiene measures and care should be the same. What is important, consider infectious, is not to underestimate the disease, since it is already causing a large number of infections across the country.
According to P?rez G?mez, the fact that the holiday period approaches can be very helpful to prevent contagion in schools. However, at this time are increased social obligations, such as inns or meetings, and attendance at trade places with a high concentration of people, increasing the chance of transmission.
Recommendations to avoid infection
Constant hand-washing.
-Use hand sanitizer gel.
"Do not go to crowded places.
To apply the vaccine in risk groups.
Young and pregnant women most affected
Infections increase
Although the seasonal flu virus affects all population groups, especially the children and the elderly, the Health Ministry Jalisco (SSJ) reports that there has been an increase in infections among young people of reproductive age, more those with risk factors such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, among other diseases.
The head of epidemiology at the agency, Lucia Salazar Montes, warns that not only has increased the number of cases in young and pregnant, but these have developed serious cases of the disease, so some have needed to be hospitalized.
"Whenever the respiratory processes are very common in children and in people older than 65 years, but right now is occurring in all age groups, is having a similar frequency in people of working age, which is not usual in breathing time. "
Ask doctors to "think influenza"
In general, suspected cases of seasonal influenza have increased in the past two months, so an alert is sent by the disease epidemiological health institutions to "think about flu" when you get patients with symptoms of respiratory disease, and give the medicine on time.
The doctor reports that, although nothing compared to what happened last year, when they had the H1N1 pandemic virus, which is looking to avoid complications in patients.
"It emphasizes the importance of the doctor treating a respiratory process thinks it might be influenza, which remind the operational definition, and people with a table and be given immediate medical treatment, especially those with risk factors. "
Over the weeks, registering less than 30 samples of suspected cases of influenza per week, increased to more than 100, according to the latest report from the State Laboratory of the SSJ.
Confirmed cases of influenza season to date are 165.. APPROPRIATIONS: Reporter Editorial / EHOG