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Editor, Senior Moderator
The Paraguayan government brought on Thursday the death of 97 persons for influenza and resolved to prolong the school vacation from two until three weeks to avoid the circulation of the virus in the classrooms. In the last years a strong increase has registered in the incidence of the evil, according to the state office Sanitary Alertness. ' We have a serious problem of public health due to the influenza ', said in press conference the Education Secretary, Horacio Galeano on Tuesday night. Paraguay, a subtropical country, has a temperature I mediate between 25 and 35 degrees centigrade but in June and July, the southern winter, he supports temperatures of between 2 and 10 grades. Meanwhile, the Minister of Public Health, Antonio Arbo, confirmed that 90 % of the beds of the public hospitals of the country is occupied by patients of respiratory infections. The influenza generated by the viruses parainfluenza and adenovirus, killed in the year 97 persons, compared with 207 in the whole previous year, according to Sanitary Alertness. Until beginning of July 12.000 cases of influenza had registered. Last year 6.000 cases registered, and in 2010 scarcely 3.000.
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