Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 47 deaths

[Gert van der Hoek]

Paraguay: first confirmed case of H1N1

Posted on 20 May 2009 at 12:39


According to the World Health Organization, there are a total of 9830 infected in 40 countries, of which 79 died, these data did not include Paraguay.

Paraguayan health authorities reported the first case of swine flu in the country in an adult woman who had recently returned from New York.

The Director of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Public Health of Paraguay, Iv?n Allende, said the official test ?confirmed the preliminary result that were from a ? private laboratory ?, but clarified that he will send a sample to the U.S. to take total certainty that it is the virus H1N1.

In South America only remain free of the influenza Venezuela, Bolivia and Uruguay.

The most affected are Colombia, which already has 12 positive cases, and Chile, where, as president, Michelle Bachelet said, 10 patients have been reported and as a precaution five schools were closed in the capital.

http://momento24.com/en/2009/05/20/paraguay-first-confirmed-case-of-h1n1/

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1

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Meanwhile, Paraguay disclosed that it had registered seven suspected flu cases.

Among them, three people showed flu symptoms after returning from the United States and Mexico, the two worst-hit countries.

The other four are all relatives of one of the patients.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/22/content_11419830.htm

 

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Paraguay - Cases - 5

Paraguay - Cases - 5

Paraguay confirms 5 cases of A/H1N1 flu

www.chinaview.cn 2009-05-29 13:20:32 Print

Minister of Public Health of Paraguay Esperanza Martinez (L) speaks at a news conference in Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, May 28, 2009. Paraguay health authorities confirmed on Thursday five cases of the A/H1N1 influenza, the first time for Paraguay to report flu cases.

 

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 23

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 23

Source: http://www.adn.es/sociedad/20090609/NWS-2799-Reportan-Paraguay-contagios-nuevos-suman.html

Reported 18 new cases of influenza A in Paraguay, where the infection added 23

* EFE

Las health authorities of Paraguay today announced 18 new infections of influenza A, so that cases of this disease in this country that has been presented as a seasonal influenza, have risen to 23.

The director of health surveillance of the industry ministry, Iván Allende, told reporters that those infected are already healed and eleven cases were confirmed by laboratory samples, while seven by epidemiological nexus.

"By the time we receive confirmation from the CDC in Atlanta (a reference laboratory in the U.S. city) of 11 cases and seven cases by laboratory we have taken as positive epidemiological link," explained the official press conference.

The first five infections were reported in this country on May 28 passed from family members to arrive from United States mid-month, the doctor recalled, specifying that there are currently 20 suspected cases.

"People have developed a benign picture of the respiratory tract, had no complications and no risk of complication," Allende said, emphasizing that the recommendation is to seek medical care, especially if it is less than 2 years and older 60.

The official said that Paraguay does not register an active circulation of the virus and said that new cases are linked with people who have traveled to Buenos Aires, "where there is community transmission sustained for several weeks."

"We will continue to apply the same measures, such as surveillance of people entering through different entry points, specifically in the Silvio Pettirossi international airport," Allende said.

The Paraguayan Government had decreed a state of the health emergency last May 5 to alert the World Health Organization (WHO) for the spread of the outbreak of the virus in AH1N1 United States and Mexico and expanding in these fatal cases countries.

The state of emergency had joined the epidemiological alert announced on April 27 to strengthen checks at airports in the country, especially in travelers from Mexico and United States.

Paraguay has only direct flights to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, and air links with Mexico and United States are through Peru and Chile.

 

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 23

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 23

Source: http://www.abc.com.py/2009-06-16/articulos/531516/paciente-esta-grave

There are 23 suspected cases of FLU H1
Patient is seriously

A patient of 42 years, which includes the group of suspected cases of influenza H1, you are in serious condition but stable at the Hospital de Cl?nicas.

Dr. Gustavo Cuellar

It was moved a few days ago from Encarnaci?n, where he was diagnosed with severe pneumonia. Today you are in the service of intensive therapy, treatment with antibiotics and on a respirator, said Dr. Gustavo Cuellar, the Department of Control of hospital infections.

The doctor said that it has a history of travel to Argentina and would have consulted a health service six days after the initiation of disease symptoms.

Cuellar said that, apparently, the man has no chronic diseases that predispongan develop a severe flu.

"There are people that do not require a suppressed immunity for a severe infection. Depends on the aggressiveness of the germ and immune status of the patient's defenses, "the specialist.

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S America bears swine flu brunt

Article from: Agence France-Presse
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From correspondents in Buenos Aires
June 17, 2009 07:40am

THE swine flu deaths of two people in Argentina and a mutation of the H1N1 virus detected in Brazil have added to fears that South America is entering a harsh winter beset by the flu pandemic.

While big pharmaceutical firms are ramping up efforts to mass-produce a vaccine for H1N1, they are still months away from having enough stocks - too late for the Southern Hemisphere's winter flu season.

South America has already recorded five deaths from the disease: two in Chile, one in Colombia last week and, most recently, those of a three-month-old girl and a 28-year-old man with leukemia in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires.

The number of infected cases is outstripping figures put out regularly by the World Health Organisation.

According to the latest statistics from national health authorities, Chile has 2355 patients confirmed with H1N1 flu, Argentina has 733, Peru has 113, Brazil 69, Ecuador 84, Venezuela 44, Uruguay 36, Paraguay 25 and Suriname 13.

Those figures are far overshadowed by the data from North America and Central America, the apparent source of the pandemic.

Mexican authorities say they have had 109 deaths and 6,294 infected cases. The United States today added a nine-year-old boy to its death toll, bringing it to 47, alongside 17,855 infected cases. Canada has six deaths and 3515 infections.

Central America and the Caribbean have also been hit, registering nearly 800 infections and three deaths (one each in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala).

Although the A(H1N1) virus has been classed as relatively mild since first being detected in April, its unusually strong effect on the young, on those with other underlying health problems, and on the poor have made it a redoubtable challenge.

Some major drug companies have started producing a vaccine for pre-clinical testing, but one of them, Switzerland's Novartis, told the Financial Times it did not intend to give it away to poor countries.

US rival Baxter said today it should have its H1N1 vaccine commercially available in July.

But there were underlying fears that the virus currently spreading around the world through human-to-human contact might mutate further, possibly into a more deadly form, as happened with the 1918 Spanish flu which killed tens of millions.

Those fears heightened a little today, when a Brazil's Adolfo Lutz Bacteriological Institute said its researchers had identified and isolated a new strain of the A(H1N1) virus in a Sao Paulo patient.

It was not yet known whether that variant, called A/Sao Paulo/1454/H1N1, was more aggressive than the more common type.

The institute said in a statement the mutation comprised alterations in the Hemagglutinin protein which allows the virus to infect new hosts.

 

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 27

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 27

Source: http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/230812-Casos-de-A-H1N1-llegan-a-27-tras-dos-nuevas-confirmaciones

Google translation:

In cases of H1N1 reached 27 after two new confirmations
The party newspaper of influenza A H1N1 sent by the Directorate for Surveillance of Health reports that the date was confirmed two new cases of the disease, while suspected cases amount to 32. To date, only 9 cases were excluded.


18:50 |

"In this day there were six new suspected cases from countries with sustainable community movement, also confirmed two new cases, with a total of 27 confirmed in Paraguay," said the report prepared by professionals influenza MSP.

Yet the Ministry of Health announced that no further action should be taken, such as border closures and travel restrictions and the emphasis on patient care in health centers as assigned benchmarks.

"It should be noted that raising the alert level to phase 6, is not related to the severity of cases, but the spread of them," says the report.

In this situation, the ministry urged the general population with extreme care measures related to prevention of influenza in general, such as hand washing, cover your mouth when you cough, not refregarse eyes, keep clean the objects used common as telephones and doorknobs and rest for influenza cases.

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 48

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 48

Friday, June 19, 2009

Confirmed new cases of influenza A H1N1 and the figure rises to 48

The Director of Health Surveillance, Iván Allende, reported that the number of patients with influenza A H1 N1 in Paraguay rose to 48, with the confirmation of 21 new cases. Unless a patient at the Hospital de Clinicas, others are cured, he explained.
17:15 |

Confirmed cases of influenza A H1N1 in the country rose to 48, while 26 suspected cases were reported, leaving 10 others reported Allende.

He also confirmed that these were the result of tests carried out in the country with the teams that received the institution.

Confirmed cases are arranged in four clusters of Asunción (11) and the departments of Central (23) distributed in municipalities such as Fernando de la Mora, San Lorenzo and Lambaré; Cordillera (13) in the municipality of Caacupé e Itapúa (1 ) which records the only case of serious illness.

According to the report, which broadcasts daily from the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Paraguay has not yet been broadcast community, as is happening in Argentina, Chile and possibly Peru.

http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/231...asos-de-gripe-A-H1N1-y-la-cifra-se-eleva-a-48

 

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 48

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 48

Source: http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/231475-El-único-paciente-grave-de-A-H1N1,-librado-a-su-suerte

The only serious A H1N1 patients, on their own
The first person in serious complications of influenza A H1N1 in the country struggle to survive in an intensive care bed at the Hospital de Cl?nicas. Looks a soul to help with joint costs of medicines.

Since last Friday, the day it came to the hospital for pneumonia school until yesterday, his family and spent a few G. 7,000,000 in remediation.

"He is very ill and no longer have the money. Medicines leave very expensive. Use one that costs 75 mil G. to have to use every three hours and that leaves another 25 G. and needs three thousand per day. We are a poor family , come inside. We no longer have to spend a Guarani, "said Pedro Gimenez, husband of the sister of the patient.

Commented that the hospital does not have the medicines you need your brother, so they had to resort to saving the father of man hit by the H1N1 virus kept throughout his life to spend in their old age.

"In Santa Librada Foundation told me to help me iban. Tomorrow (today) at 9 I will deliver one of the medications that I was asked. But today (yesterday) I need to buy another 9 G . 75 thousand and I no longer have a weight, I do not know what to do, "Gimenez said.

The man placed in critical condition due to influenza A H1N1, which led to pneumonia, is 42 years and is a native of St. Cosmas and Damian, Itap?a.

He is the father of a child with disabilities, a teenage girl and a baby who is two months of birth. It's the breadwinner for his wife and kids.

A month ago the hope of leaving his family impoverished economy pushed him to Buenos Aires, Argentina, seeking a job in the short term. After 15 days of work as a bricklayer in building returned to its 400 pesos to continue fighting for the basics to those who most love in life.

On the way back, a cough and a fever in the air led him to consult the health center of San Cosme and from there it led to Encarnaci?n, then Cl?nicas.

ANSWER. Dr. Ivan Allende, Director of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, noted that the portfolio will not cover any treatment outside the public sector. "Clinics will not the ministry but to the National University. Health care is to consult the cases in the public sector. Each subsystem must ensure coverage for people who access their services," he explained.

21 NEW CASES CONFIRMED IN THE COUNTRY

The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed 21 new cases of influenza A H1N1 in the country. They joined the 48 people infected with the virus.

While the suspects arrive in 26 to 10 and discarded.

New clients who have confirmed the disease from four clusters (group of people who have a close relationship). They are in Asuncion (11), Range (13), Central (23) and Itap?a (1).

Iv?n Allende, Director of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, noted that the country is continuing to work with clusters of cases, since there are not sustained community transmission of influenza subtype A.

The doctor recalled yesterday that the boys with boxes of influenza who require their medical safety of a prepaid medical test you have a runny nose and come up positive for influenza A.

"That means the transmission of seasonal influenza virus, unless that person has a history of travel to Argentina or Chile or other transmission that is sustained or community has been in contact with a confirmed case of a new subtype that it is the H1N1" he said.

 

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 55

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 55

Source: http://noticias.terra.es/genteycult...a-55-los-casos-de-la-gripe-a-en-paraguay.aspx

Google translation:

Flu-ah1n1 paraguay
Increase to 55 cases of influenza A in Paraguay

The influenza A cases rose to 55 in Paraguay following confirmation last weekend seven new infections, announced today the Ministry of Public Health.

The medical director of that ministry, Iv?n Allende, said in a press conference that only one of the infected, a man of 42 years, born in Encarnaci?n, south of the country on the border with Argentina, is still in serious condition in hospital clinics in Asunci?n.

He explained that in recent days there were seven new patients, who have joined the 48 reported last Friday by the authorities, and are 36 suspected cases are under follow-up.

Allende considered unlikely for a sustained expansion, explaining that the flu has been detected in well-localized clusters of four municipalities in the outskirts of Asunci?n and Encarnaci?n, on the border with Argentina.

 

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 66

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 66

Source: http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/232...-casos-de-la-gripe-A-y-la-cifra-se-eleva-a-66

Google translation:

HEALTH | Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Health more confirmed cases of influenza A and the figure rises to 66
The Health Ministry confirmed on Wednesday 8 new cases of influenza A, bringing the number of affected rises to 66. Health authorities recommend that people postpone travel to areas outside of the community which has sustained transmission of H1N1 virus.


18:17 |

Until Thursday are 66 confirmed cases of Influenza A H1N1 in the country, while the suspicious-are currently under follow-82, says part of the Department of Health Surveillance.

The health portfolio recommends resting to prevent the spread of the disease, as it is shown that the most effective method to reduce the spread of influenza virus, is resting at home for at least 7 days and see inside the houses, the hygiene, ventilation of rooms and use of masks or chinstrap common where there are respiratory symptoms. "

Similarly, calls to those who will inevitably be traveling outside the country to areas affected by sustained community transmission of H1N1 virus, to provide care for 14 days after the return and that if they show symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat, muscle and joint aches and headaches, to report to health authorities and not to leave.

The updated report by the World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that, globally, amounting to 55,867 cases, with a total of 238 deaths.

 

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 96

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 96

Source: http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/234118-Gripe:-Paraguay-mantiene-una-transmisión-focal-limitada

NAT. | Monday, June 29, 2009
Gripe: Paraguay has a limited focal transmission
Most patients in follow up cases of Influenza A H1N1 is part of a conglomerate, it can be said that a limited focal transmission, said Ivan Allende, director of the Health Surveillance of Health. He said that therefore we can not speak of a community sustained transmission from person to person.

14:16 |

"This implies that the transmission that there is only around an index case, is the transmission that occurs in clusters," Allende said Monday at a press conference.

In our country there are so far confirmed 96 cases of the disease, 146 are classified as suspects and 21 notifications were discarded for a total of 263 patients in follow-up.

The health authority said the sentinel surveillance system records the number of active circulation of seasonal influenza viruses in the country, including Influenza A, Influenza B, Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Parainfluenza.

The professional said that there were only 2 patients with confirmed diagnosis of Influenza A H1N1, in need of hospitalization by severity criteria, which involves a hospitalization rate of 2.23% nationally, we have not recorded cases of death from this new subtype of influenza A, the doctor noted.

With respect to the continental situation, reported that 1587 cases confirmed by Argentina, Brazil, 627, and his first deceased, who is a person from Argentina, Chile, 6,200 cases, 195 cases Uruguay and Bolivia, with 59 infected does not show an unprecedented increase in the number of cases. Globally, WHO is coming to the 70 thousand cases of Influenza A H1N1 with 241 deaths giving a case fatality rate 0.5% lower than prices Dr Allende.

Allende emphasized that the main recommendation of the Ministry of Health is that people are aware that leaving the country, going to Argentina, or the northern hemisphere, are exposed to acquire a respiratory infection by influenza A H1N1 virus.
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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 96

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 96

Source: http://www.ppn.com.py/html/noticias...-AH1N1-se-deben-a-una-transmision-comunitaria

Cases of influenza A/H1N1 be transmitted to a community.
By PPN. Com.py - 02/07/2009 - 08:40

The Ministry of Health, through the Department of Epidemiological Surveillance reported that to date there are 100 confirmed cases of influenza A/H1N1, 201 tables and 20 suspects discarded. "What we can not determine is whether this transfer is actually sustained within the community," said Director of Health Services.

Diego Gamarra, Director of Health Services, argues that the country is a cocirculaci?n with influenza A. "We are in a position to assume that we have a seasonal flu cocirculaci?n viral (influenza A) and the new serotype (A/H1N1) in a community transmission. What we can not determine with current data is whether the transmission actually sustained within the community, "he said.

Faced with this situation flu epidemic, said the Ministry of Health, through the Situation Room, has taken the decision to enter a phase of mitigation of disease, "this means that the entire health system of the country, evoke to detect those patients who have warning signs or morbidity from influenza, so as to reduce the maximum number of patients with complications from this disease, "explained the doctor.

Are defined as patients with warning signs: those who have trouble breathing or feeding, those with chest pain, those with bloody cough with expectoration, those who suffer from drowsiness or confusion, and those who exhibit some type of comorbidity , ie a disease based on which you install the box influenza. In this group are: people over 60 years, children under 5 years, diabetics, those with some form of heart disease, chronic lung disease who exhibit such as asthma, pregnant women, the obese, those with some form of malnutrition, which normally consume some form of immunosuppressive (aspirin, steroids or other antiflamatorio) and those who live alone and far from health services.

"People who have flu and are located within these two definitions, are those who actually do have an active demand for the services within the health system so they can be treated, said Gamarra.

 

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 103

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 103

Source: http://www.lanacion.com.py/noticias_um-254543.htm

Suman 103 confirmed cases of influenza A H1N1 and 240 suspects in Paraguay
The cases of the virulent disease had a significant jump this week. Currently, cases of influenza A H1N1 were confirmed 103, while the total 240 suspects, according to health authorities reported today.

"We are at epidemic stage. This situation highlights the importance of observing the recommendations of social distancing from suspected cases of influenza, to avoid dispersion and timely consultation of people with influenza have some warning sign or risk factor for complications . The surveillance of respiratory viruses detected in sentinel sites the predominant circulation of influenza A, including respiratory viruses, "says the party newspaper issued by Directorate General of Health Surveillance.

Yesterday, Wednesday, July 1, reported the first case died of Influenza A H1N1: a patient 60 years old male, who had a history of co-morbidity (heart disease).

According to the updated report by the World Health Organization, until June 26, the total number of cases of influenza A/H1N1 amounts to 77,201, with a total of 332 deaths. The overall case fatality rate is 0.4%.

 

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 103 - 2 deaths

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 103 - 2 deaths

Source: http://www.abc.com.py/2009-07-05/ar...ina-de-ocho-anos-de-edad-que-tenia-gripe-h1n1

Was interned in IPS
The girl died eight years of age who had H1N1 influenza

The girl died Sunday from 8 years of age and was placed in serious condition at the Hospital Central del Instituto de Previsi?n Social (IPS) affected by the H1N1 flu, reported officials from the various radio forecast. They said that another child affected by the disease improves and remains in that facility.

With the death of the girl was raised to two the number of deaths from influenza A that is recorded in the country, for its part indicated spokespersons of the Ministry of Public Health and Welfare.

Days after he had killed a sexagenarian who had also contracted the H1N1 flu recalled.

 

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 103 - 2 deaths

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 103 - 2 deaths

Source: http://www.soitu.es/soitu/2009/07/07/info/1247003109_095798.html


The Paraguayan Congress ratifies and approves the emergency use of unique resources


EFE
Updated 07-07-2009 23:45 CET

Asuncion .- The Paraguayan Congress ratified today the health emergency declared by the Government last May before the advance of influenza A and authorized the use of exceptional resources for addressing the epidemic in this country has caused three deaths in less than ten days .

The Chamber of Deputies into law Executive's statement after the Senate did the same thing in the morning at another extraordinary meeting, which was approved a budget increase of 96,900 million guaran?es (19.2 million dollars) for the Ministry of Public Health.

The Minister of Health, Esperanza Martinez, explained that the allocation of increased resources will enable them to "expand the supply capacity in the health system", which in recent days has been overwhelmed by patients with respiratory problems.

"That means more clinics, more intensive care units and inpatient units of the influenza-specific," Martinez said after a meeting with the Head of State, Fernando Lugo, who participated in the campaign for military, police and officials.

The emergency law allows health authorities to the procurement of goods and services under emergency rule. "

In Paraguay, the health emergency was declared on May 4 last, long before the virus AH1N1 reached the country, but the alarm was fired after last Sunday confirmed the death of a girl of 8 years and 11 months of a baby .

On July 1, a man of 62 years became the first fatal victim, and so far 114 have been reported infected with the new virus, half hundred of them in the care of public and private hospitals, and 518 suspected cases.

Diego Gamarra, director of the Hospital Ministry, announced today that await the results of tests sent to a reference laboratory in the U.S. six fatal cases, stopped after the studies were conducted in the country for lack of reagents.

In this regard, the Minister of Health explained that from now the medical tests will be conducted "before a patient's clinical evidence," arguing a Community transmission in Asuncion and nearby municipalities, which has reported the most cases.

"People come in distress, pay an analysis (in the private system), which is no longer vital," said Martinez, who explained that the health authorities are concerned about the migration to Argentina during the winter because to the neighboring country in the virus has already claimed 60 lives.

The expansion of the new community strain has forced today to the Mayor (mayor) of Assumption of Evanhy Gallegos, to order the closure of theaters and other enclosed areas of administration and recommended that employers of cinemas and other entertainment night to do the same.

According to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the pandemic is already affecting 94,512 people in over 120 countries and has killed 429 people, most of them in America.

 

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 114 - 3 deaths

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 114 - 3 deaths


The Congress of Paraguay declared a national emergency by Influenza A

The Congress of Paraguay last night approved the Emergency Health Law by the influenza A H1N1, which
officially and caused three deaths in the country.

The draft health emergency was sent by President Fernando Lugo, as reported
Italian agency Ansa.
The Congress also approved extensions for budgetary resources to strengthen
the situation.
In total the country has confirmed 114 cases of this flu, while 518 cases
suspects. (


http://www.misionesonline.net/paginas/detalle2.php?db=noticias2007&id=137516

 

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 150 - 6 deaths

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 150 - 6 deaths

Source: http://www.gritoperonista.com.ar/mostrar_noticia.php?id=17242

July 2009 "You hear a man crying over, a thousand who are silent" Gen. Jos? de San Mart?n Search:
2009-07-16 | Society
Paraguay. Suman six deaths from the H1N1 influenza A

by www.abc.com.py

The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on Wednesday that the deaths from influenza A H1N1 in the country doubled and increased to six, following the confirmation of three new cases of a total of 150 fatal infections.


Dr. Ivan Allende, director of Health Watch, said in a press conference that the three fatal cases were confirmed in studies conducted after 40 people died in the last three weeks because of severe respiratory infections. The doctor stated that "the age range of those killed range from 11 months to 62 years" and that five of the patients who subsequently died were treated in intensive care units with mechanical ventilation. Allende explained further that there are 150 new viruses and infected 1330 suspected cases of evil, and who are awaiting the results of 200 samples were sent to Atlanta (United States) for its consideration. He also said that a total of 106 people hospitalized in Asuncion and the Central Department, near the capital, of which 38 percent show severe acute respiratory conditions. "We are keeping an eye on how different diseases and influenza-like severe acute respiratory infections in Asunci?n and its metropolitan area in the country, still using the definition of suspected cases of WHO (World Health Organization) for areas without extensive transmission virus, "he said. Around this situation, the head of state of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, today ordered an extended winter holiday weeks (Southern) in schools and colleges, so that classes will resume on July 27 next. The start of the winter holidays, which usually last two weeks, had been brought forward one week by the educational authorities, precisely to minimize the risk of spread of the disease, and classes should begin the next 20 days. For its part, the Supreme Court decided today to suspend the proceedings for two days, Thursday and Friday, in all courts of the country in order to prevent further spread of the epidemic.

 

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 164 - 8 deaths

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 164 - 8 deaths

Source: http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=101838&Itemid=1

Google translation:

Suman eight killed in Paraguay by influenza A (H1N1)
Friday, 17 July 2009

July 17 2009, 14:03 Asunci?n, July 17 (PL) deaths from influenza A (H1N1) in Paraguay joined eight, revealed today the director of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Public Health, Iv?n Allende.

The official reported in a press conference confirmed that the number of infected is 164 thousand and 748 suspected cases.

He said that most people with symptoms that suggest this disease are reported in this capital and its environs.

Noted that it has detected the presence of the new virus in 10 other regions of the country.

The World Health Organization said today that the swine flu virus is spreading at a rate "unprecedented" in the world.

In Paraguay, the sector plans to acquire thousands of treatments of oseltamivir, the antiviral used against new strains of flu.

Furthermore, although the country still does not show a resistance of influenza A (H1N1) to the antiviral oseltamivir, provides for the registration and the introduction of zanamivir in the coming weeks.

Allende, said covering the registration of the product to market, as well as a donation in order to have the minimum stock for probable cases of resistance may be emerging.

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Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 164 - 8 deaths

Re: Paraguay: confirmed cases H1N1- 164 - 8 deaths

Source: http://www.lanacion.com.py/noticias_um-257107.htm

Google translation:

Ministry of Health confirmed that the dead by the eight influenza A
The Ministry of Health, through the Director of Health Surveillance, Iv?n Allende, confirmed today that the death toll was by Influenza A H1N1 was eight, one more than yesterday. The doctor said that our country has 164 confirmed cases of the new flu, 1748 patients have tables suspects, 40 were discarded.

"The last 2 are dead on Social Security, and the other was reported by the judicial morgue, is an adult, specified medical professional. About deceased, said that there were 49 deaths so far, 21 of them this week.

With regard to the consultations, said that last week there were 14,269 consultations for influenza-like illness, pneumonia and severe pneumonia, "of those killed 20 were hospitalized and about 70 people, most extended an illness that could be controlled and at this moment are enjoying good health, it is clear that this is preferably a benign disease, "remarked the doctor.

He also cited the availability of intensive care in our country. "Making a count of the 28 facilities that have beds for intensive care, we have recorded over 86 today to 15 years in intensive care, children 36 to 15 years and a newborn, this gives us an occupancy rate of beds about 40% of acute respiratory infections. " He said that 57 beds are available in Asuncion therapy.

He further noted that the epidemiological week 27, ending July 11, there was only a small decrease of the consultations by IRAS, which do not produce pneumonia, such as otitis, sinusitis, bronchitis and other upper respiratory ailments, however , noted a significant increase in consultations for influenza, especially in those older than 5 years, and a slight decline in consultations for influenza in children under 5 years, but still in the range of 5 thousand cases, "so we can say that we are not seeing any effect on the holiday of influenza transmission in communities, "he said.

The referent of Public Health mentioned that are monitoring the behavior of severe pneumonia. "In the group younger than 5 years, there is a decrease from week 26 and we are coming back to the stage of epidemiological alert for severe pneumonia, but older than 5 years, we are in epidemic stage and This is reflected in the hospital we have in our country, "he said.

According to the latest update of the World Health Organization, 133 countries officially confirmed more than 110 thousand cases of Influenza A H1N1, with 609 deaths globally. Most of the confirmed cases are from the Americas, which contributed 67 thousand cases of the pandemic, followed by the Western Pacific, with over 18 thousand cases, and Europe, with approximately 14 thousand cases. The largest proportion of deaths occur in America.