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http://www.laestrella.com.pa/mensual/2010/06/26/contenido/250481.asp
Spanish to English translation
Panama, besieged by wave of virus
Jos? Kaled, deputy director of Promotion and Health Prevention (i) and Javier Diaz, director of Medical Benefits of CSS.
Health authorities are concerned. Numbers of patients are tripled. It threatens the H1N1 equine encephalitis and more cases
CARLOS ATENCIO
catencio@laestrella.com.pa
AMA. Javier Diaz, national director of the Medical Benefits Social Security Fund, acknowledged yesterday that the outbreak of seasonal influenza viruses A and B has tripled in recent days abruptly.
This means that of the 400 cases who attended every day until Tuesday, would now be about 1200 cases attending the hospital emergency room and advised to seek medical attention geneneral, 7th floor of the Complex, Arnulfo Arias Madrid.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) have been reported cases of influenza 62.698 common during the week of 6 to 12 June this year. In 2009, for this week, there were 76.892 cases. The figure reveals a downturn MINSA patients who are not visible in the emergency rooms of hospitals and who are still congested viral affectations.
According to Felix Bonilla, secretary general of the Ministry of Health, the outbreak of cold, which is occurring throughout the country, because influenza is a cyclical disease that flares up in the winter, it is urgent that people do not relax the sanitary measures.
However, the population is not only surrounded by seasonal influenza A and B (H3N2) that causes the common cold, but is in the nature of the dangerous H1N1 last year caused 800 cases and 11 deaths, despite that Panama was benign version of the virus that circulated for several continents.
Diaz explained that respiratory complications from influenza has killed six adults over 70 years during the last two weeks in the complex.
ENCEPHALITIS
The Health Minister Franklin Vergara, managed the transfer of an item for $ $ 456,000 for the purchase of the insecticide Fenitrothion 40, which is used in the days of spraying to combat the Culex mosquito, vector transmitting equine encephalitis.
Vergara revealed that so far only 800 have been vaccinated horses of the 69 thousand that exist all over the country. It also said it will buy another batch of vaccines for horses to Mexico.
Yesterday there were two new equine encephalitis hospitalizations at Children's Hospital.
Spanish to English translation
Panama, besieged by wave of virus
Jos? Kaled, deputy director of Promotion and Health Prevention (i) and Javier Diaz, director of Medical Benefits of CSS.
Health authorities are concerned. Numbers of patients are tripled. It threatens the H1N1 equine encephalitis and more cases
CARLOS ATENCIO
catencio@laestrella.com.pa
AMA. Javier Diaz, national director of the Medical Benefits Social Security Fund, acknowledged yesterday that the outbreak of seasonal influenza viruses A and B has tripled in recent days abruptly.
This means that of the 400 cases who attended every day until Tuesday, would now be about 1200 cases attending the hospital emergency room and advised to seek medical attention geneneral, 7th floor of the Complex, Arnulfo Arias Madrid.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) have been reported cases of influenza 62.698 common during the week of 6 to 12 June this year. In 2009, for this week, there were 76.892 cases. The figure reveals a downturn MINSA patients who are not visible in the emergency rooms of hospitals and who are still congested viral affectations.
According to Felix Bonilla, secretary general of the Ministry of Health, the outbreak of cold, which is occurring throughout the country, because influenza is a cyclical disease that flares up in the winter, it is urgent that people do not relax the sanitary measures.
However, the population is not only surrounded by seasonal influenza A and B (H3N2) that causes the common cold, but is in the nature of the dangerous H1N1 last year caused 800 cases and 11 deaths, despite that Panama was benign version of the virus that circulated for several continents.
Diaz explained that respiratory complications from influenza has killed six adults over 70 years during the last two weeks in the complex.
ENCEPHALITIS
The Health Minister Franklin Vergara, managed the transfer of an item for $ $ 456,000 for the purchase of the insecticide Fenitrothion 40, which is used in the days of spraying to combat the Culex mosquito, vector transmitting equine encephalitis.
Vergara revealed that so far only 800 have been vaccinated horses of the 69 thousand that exist all over the country. It also said it will buy another batch of vaccines for horses to Mexico.
Yesterday there were two new equine encephalitis hospitalizations at Children's Hospital.