Paraguay: four persons died in the IPS for respiratory infections

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The Dra. Ann Fiandro, of the unit of epidemiología of the Central Hospital of the IPS, informed that one of the deceased was a 38-year-old man, native to the quarter Saxony of Asunción and gave negative to the tests of respiratory viruses. Another two patients, with several factors of risk, also died in the nosocomio, as reported the professional. It is a question of a 36-year-old woman, with asthma and a cardiac problem known like valvulopatía mistral; and a 71-year-old lady, with diabetes. Nevertheless, the case that more alerted the medical professionals was that of a 21-year-old young woman, who was with 16 weeks of pregnancy and did not have factors of risk. “ We have no results laboratoriales but there is high suspicion that it has (virus of the flu) H1N1 ”, expressed the doctor. Dr. Mario Martínez, for his{your} part, added that they do not rely on with records of which the young woman, that Saxony was residing in the quarter, has received the vaccine against the pandemic influenza. Fiandro told that the pregnancy diminishes the defenses of the organism, and that the pandemic virus provokes a high mortality in the pregnant women. He remembered except that the same ones cannot receive any type of medication, from what it urged to consult precozmente before the appearance of symptoms gripales.
Also he asked the companies for a major consideration with the rests, principally the women gestantes.

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