Parana deaths: suspect & confirmed

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IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS IN ALTO PARANA
18/07/2009 - Influenza A killed four people

The influenza A Fulminans killed four people in less than twenty-four hours in the Upper Paran?. The series of killings began last Thursday with the death of a girl of seven years and last took place yesterday morning. 10 other people including a woman eight months pregnant, remain serious in intensive care in different medical centers in this area.
Hospital patients, waiting time for consultation.

Three people died last Tuesday, all placed in intensive care, suffering from a box of severe acute respiratory infections (IRAG). To this was added another to death yesterday morning.
All patients had severe pneumonia and despite the fact that medical professionals do not have the reagents to determine the viral type that caused the severity of these patients, indicating that everything was caused by the new type of Influenza A H1N1 virus.
The director of the Regional Hospital, Dr. Carlos Pallarolas, as a lung specialist, said there is concern over the contamination of flu in recent days, reflecting that citizenship is not complying with the hygiene measures and personal protection to prevent the disease spreading further.
Among the early hours of Thursday and yesterday there were four deaths. The first was a child of seven years, from San Miguel who died Thursday in a private sanitarium in the capital, where he was born.
That same day, also died a couple of 21 years, placed in ICU's Regional Hospital with a diagnosis of influenza A. Moreover, in the Central sanitarium died two adult women, one Thursday and another yesterday morning.
With these new added nine fatal cases of acute respiratory infections deaths in the tenth department, in this season. Several people are placed in a delicate state, ten of them in therapy, including a woman pregnant for eight months.
Regional health authorities confirm that there is contagion Community Influenza A H1N1 in the Alto Paran?. The outbreak is more worrying epidemiological records at Km 7, New Town, where he found large numbers of patients with respiratory infections, two of them in therapy.

 

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Re: Parana deaths: suspect & confirmed

Source: http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/241779-Sospecha--de-H1-en-muerte-de-un-recluso-de-Tacumbú

ALARMA WORLD HEALTH | Wednesday, July 29, 2009
H1 suspected in death of a prisoner Tacumb?
A man of 45 years, the internal penal Tacumb?, died yesterday, probably as a result of influenza.

The hospital's director of Emergency Medicine, Henry Bellasai, that can not be excluded nor confirmed that influenza A H1N1 was the cause of death.

He added that the prisoner had no signs of life, so you can not specify what symptoms presented. It is therefore ordered by conducting an autopsy, which is headed by the Prosecutor.

According to the doctor, the procedure to know which organs were affected and the type of damage, to determine the cause of death.

Tacumb? director, Julio Acevedo, said that the inmate died after expressing respiratory problems. He indicated that he was asthmatic and had pulmonary complications.

The coordinator of the Health of the penitentiary, Benito Fretes, reported that the cause of death was a pulmonary source of sepsis, according to death certificate, and said that another inmate is taken to the Max Boettner Juan Hospital with pneumonia.

Both officials denied the existence of cases of H1N1.

Overcrowding. The criminal Tacumb? hosts at this time to 3119 inmates, who months ago were vaccinated by the Ministry of Health against influenza A.

Fretes reported that staff covered in white performed to detect possible cases and that the days of visits were reduced to two, Thursdays and Sundays. He said he was not allowed entry to engripados visitors and staff who are sick do not go to work.

He noted that health care operates 24 hours and has an area of isolation.

HEALTH NOTES alternative measures to imprisonment

The Ministry of Health issued guidance to prevent the transmission of respiratory diseases. The material states that "the prisons and detention have special considerations and suggest options or alternatives to maintain security and prevent overcrowding, alternative sentencing schemes, work, home detention, among others.

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Re: Parana deaths: suspect & confirmed

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30/07/2009 - Influenza A and killed 13 people in Alto Paran?



Severe acute respiratory infection (IRAG) and killed 13 people in the year in the Upper Paran?. Two of the victims were pregnant women. Furthermore, the death of a baby a little over a year because of influenza A H1N1.


Similarly, many patients with flu-like paintings are in the hospital "Sentinel", Regional Hospital of Ciudad del Este. Of the 74 authorized beds, 34 are occupied by people who have pictures of respiratory infections.
The amount listed, four remain in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), two adults and two children.
According to the Tenth Region of Health, there are 751 in Alto Paran? IRAG notifications, 548 cases remain suspicious of Influenza A H1N1 and five laboratory confirmed.
In addition, 13 were reported dead because of IRAG, including two pregnant women.