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Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra - 3 deaths

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tetano

Editor, Senior Moderator
Eight patients are interned in the Intensive Cares, and one was transferred, yesterday, to the Hospital of Saint John, in Oporto, because of needing special therapeutics. According to nosocomial fountain, the patients have respiratory insufficiency and are tied to the ventilator. The patients' increase led to the opening of one unity of Intensive Cares, with nine beds, and another unity in the Infecciologia, with six beds. The CM perfected that there are patients who were induced to the coma. The subdiretora-general one of the Health, Grace Freitas, affirmed to the CM that the patients' increase with atypical pneumonia is not due to the new coronav?rus, that it is contagious and fatal. ' There are no in Portugal cases of pneumonia for coronav?rus, they are own cases of the time. '


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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

First serious cases of Flu A registered this year in Portugal

In spite of are still no official numbers, the Antena1 knows that in the hospitals of Lisbon there submitted in the intensive cares five persons infected in the last week and in Inhabitant of Coimbra, there are eight persons in the same conditions.

The virus of the Flu ' Her ' appeared in 2009 and it is in the origin of the serious cases of the disease this Winter.


The General-director of Health, Francisco George, confirms the available data and remembers that the vaccination is still avoiding more complicated situations.


Francisco George believes that there will be a less mortality between the old ones of what in last year.




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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Nosocomial centre of Coimbra received 10 patients infected with flu A

In the last days, the nosocomial centre of Inhabitant of Coimbra received 10 patients infected with flu A.
Eight cases were directed to the Hospitals of the University and others two to the Covões.
A nosocomial source guarantees what one treated as a peak and what the situation is already bringing back to normal.

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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

General direction of Health does evaluation of the situation of the cases of flu A

The administrator of the nosocomial centre of Inhabitant of Coimbra says that it is accompanying the evolution of the cases.
Tomorrow they are going to meet with the General-direction of the Health to value the situation.


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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Ten cases of flu A confirmed in the Portuguese hospitals

Be at least 10 confirmed cases of flu A in the Portuguese hospitals, the majority is interned in Inhabitant of Coimbra.
Four are in serious state in the intensive cares.
The authorities say that there is no preoccupation for alarm, but they advise precaution.

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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

DGS. Twenty Portugueses interned with flu A, but situation ' not alarming '


The number of Portugueses infected with the virus of the flu A at present interned in the national hospitals ascends to 20, but the General-direction of Health (DGS) informed today that the situation, in general terms, ? will not be alarming ?.

In declarations to the Portuguese agency, the general-director of Health explained that ? this year there is no an excess of mortality associated to the grippal activity, so the situation is very different from the one that happened in the previous time ?.

? There is a grippal activity that is brought near of his peak. It is true that there are serious cases in which the persons are interned [in the intensive cares], but the number of cases is inside what we had planned in terms of anticipation ?, it highlighted Francisco George.

At present there are 20 cases of internamentos in the unities of intensive cares of the Portuguese hospitals due to the flu A, but, in agreement with the general-director of the Health, ? it is necessary to take into account that these situations always take place ?, because ? there is no here a new fact ?.

? These cases that have more serious clinical pictures, with complications that they demanded internamento in intensive cares, are situations provoked in special for the flu of type AH1, the flu that surfaced for the first time in 2009 and what about some 'dynasty' we knew that it would be going to provoke situations of this type ?, it underlined.

Francisco George highlighted still the fact of having had in Portugal ? a great impulse ? in which it respects to the care in the transmission of informations to the Portugueses under the form of prevention of the infe??o of the flu and with the vaccination, which, for the first time, was distributed to the one who was 65 or more years old.

The Minister of the Health, Paul Macedo confirmed in Saturday at night that in the last week there was a bigger affluence to the patients' hospitals with flu A, it leaves from which it is interned in unities of intensive cares.

The Minister told, nevertheless, that the situation does not justify any alarm, in the measure in ? have been fewer cases ? of flu and in what the mortality has been ? great juvenile of which in last year ?.

Speaking alongside an initiative of the PSD, in Inhabitant of Coimbra, Paul Macedo detached what the vaccine protects against several stocks of the flu that they are in circulation, adding that the one who will want to take vaccine ? still goes at time ?.

Some centres of health, he said, they are already supplying the vaccine gratuitously to other groups of the population besides that which they are considered of risk.

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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Eleven cases of Flu when It was confirmed in Inhabitant of Coimbra


In Inhabitant of Coimbra there is one more confirmed case, therefore, It raised for 11 the number of patients interned with Flu.
Five are in the service of intensive medicine with reserved prediction.

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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Inhabitant of Coimbra: Patient's death with flu and other diseases

A person bearer of flu and with other diseases it died, in the last hours, in the Nosocomial University Centre of Inhabitant of Coimbra (CHUC), whose clinical director will be going to meet, on Monday (25), with the General-direction of Health.


The piece of news of the death has just been spread by the SIC, marking the television station to be impossible to say that he was caused by the flu.

The meeting of the clinical director of the CHUC, Jos? Peter Figueiredo, and of other persons in charge with technicians of the DGS it is destined when a peak of flu is analysing the risk of coming to be A, due to an announced wave of coldness.

In the nosocomial unities of Inhabitant of Coimbra, there is a ten interned persons, with that pathology, their half with reserved prediction.

The Minister of the Health, Paul Macedo, urged the persons to take vaccine, especially you arrange whose ages are superior to 60 years.

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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Cases of flu A in Portugal increase

It is increasing the number of persons interned with flu A. Only in the hospitals of Inhabitant of Coimbra they are already 15 infected ones, which makes exceed the barrier of the 20 at national level.

To what the Renaissance perfected, in the Hospitals of the University of Inhabitant of Coimbra 13 persons are, five in the intensive cares, six in the service of the infectious diseases and two in wards. In the Hospital of the Cov?es, another two patients interned with flu are A, in the intensive cares.

According to the assistant of the clinical direction of the nosocomial university centre of Inhabitant of Coimbra, Ars?nio Santos, the patients ? are stable ?. ? In none of them, in the last days or hours, aggravation of the clinical state, the situations is relatively controlled by them ?, it explains.

At national level, the situation is not considered that alarming, however, the General-direction of the Health came already to guarantee in Sunday a picture of prevention in the nosocomial services.


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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Seven patients hospitalized
in intensive care
Editing:
Monday, February 25, 2013
The number of cases of influenza A followed at Hospital Center and University of Coimbra (chuc) rose to 11 yesterday. By late afternoon, seven patients were hospitalized in intensive care: five in University Hospitals and two General Hospital (Cov?es). The remaining patients remained, according to hospital sources, the service HUC Infectious Diseases.:tiphat:http://www.diariocoimbra.pt/noticias/sete-doentes-internados-em-cuidados-intensivos
 
Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Patients with influenza A rose to 13
Posted today at 10:35 am
Rose to 13 the number of patients with influenza A, the Coimbra Hospital Center. Of these seven are ventilated in intensive care.
Two other patients are hospitalized, suspected of having contracted the disease, but the analyzes could only confirm the suspicions of doctors.
Source of Coimbra Hospital Center ensures that there is no reason for alarmism. The procedures were keen to respond to cases that have arrived in recent days.
In the late morning, a meeting is scheduled between responsible Hospitals of Coimbra and the Directorate General of Health, to make a point about the swine flu situation
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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

CHUC: 14 persons interned with diagnosis of flu A

There are 14 persons with flu A interned in unities of the Nosocomial and University Centre of Inhabitant of Coimbra (CHUC), the "Champion" knew. Besides this, there are other patients to wait for confirmation laboratorial of what it the question is infection of the subtype H1N1.





Holy Ars?nio, assistant of the clinical direction of the CHUC, were said by him today, to the journalists, what ? the situation of several patients is stable ?, in spite of the gravity inherent in this pathology.

A person died, on Sunday, in Inhabitant of Coimbra, victim of flu A, though his level of health was weak and subject to complications due to other diseases from which it was suffering.

Two technicians of the General-direction of Health (DGS) joined, today, with the persons in charge of the CHUC, to do an evaluation of the situation of the last days, connected with cases of flu A.

Filipe Froes, adviser of the DGS, says that ? there are no reasons for alarm ? and that the apparent increase of cases of H1N1 is connected, also, with a superior capacity of diagnosis of this stock of the virus of the flu, occurred after the pandemia of 2009.



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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Confirmed nine cases of flu A and a death in Coimbra

Holy Ars?nio, coordinator of the group of attendance of the cases of flu A, confirmed this Monday what there are nine confirmed cases of flu A, alone in Inhabitant of Coimbra. The infected ones are interned in the wards of the Hospital of the University of Inhabitant of Coimbra and in the General Hospital of Inhabitant of Coimbra, known by the Hospital of the Cov?es. Holy Ars?nio was still confirmed by the death of a patient infected with the H1N1, who had other factors of risk. The interned patients are "stable" .Al?m of these nine confirmed cases, another five persons can be infected also with flu A, being still waiting for the results laboratoriais.

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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Most of the hospitalized by Flu were registered in Inhabitant of Coimbra

Up to now the biggest number of internamentos of persons with Flu To was registered in Inhabitant of Coimbra. Altogether 14 persons are interned, nine with confirmed diagnosis. Five other patients wait for the results of the examinations. In weekend, a patient infected with this virus of flu died. It had other several associate factors of risk to the disease.

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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Hospital of Coimbra without explanation for outbreak of flu A


There are still 14 persons interned with flu A in the nosocomial centre of Inhabitant of Coimbra, after the death, in last Saturday, of a patient. Heard by the Renaissance, Arsénio Santos, assistant of the clinical direction, says that it does not find particular reason any for this apparent concentration of serious cases of flu in the city. “ We are wrong to believe that there is something again in the specter of the flu. Perhaps also it is because we are all more moved, doctors, to put the hypothesis of the diagnosis and to confirm it ”, it watches the doctor. “ At this moment be concentration of cares in Inhabitant of Coimbra ”, it continues, what is a reference for great part of the region I Center, so for this reason the most serious situations also concentrate here ”, it begins to appear, without however having explanation for this apparent outbreak in the region.

It explains Holy Arsénio still that the patient with flu A what died again in last Saturday had other complications, which contributed to the aggravation of his clinical situation. “ These more serious pictures, which we check is that they are usually in persons that they have other pathologies, other diseases. In this case it was that that went on. She was a person with serious problems of health and it died again for the descompensação of other diseases that had ”, it explains. Ill 14 does not put any negative evolution in perspective for the remainder what are interned, five two which in the intensive cares, which besides the usual symptoms, have respiratory problems. The patients are diagnosed by flu A, one of two stocks in circulation this Winter. The virus A H1N1 is person in charge for the pandemia of flu of 2009, that from that time it entered in the composition of the vaccines, such as it happens this year. There is no certainty as for one or two patients, but of those who are interned in Inhabitant of Coimbra they did not vaccinate the majority.

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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

There are nine persons infected with the virus of the flu A interned in the Nosocomial and University Centre of Inhabitant of Coimbra (CHUC) and five others that also can suffer was getting on badly, but whose confirmation ? waits for the results laboratoriais ?.
Seven of nine infected persons are interned, ? there are some days ?, in the unities of intensive cares, five of which in the Hospitals of the University of Inhabitant of Coimbra (HUC/CHUC) and two in the General Hospital of Inhabitant of Coimbra (HGC/CHUC), commonly known by Hospital of the Cov?es. Besides five patients, they are ? when others were interned in the wards ? of the HUC two with flu A, e five persons regarding whom ? there is clinical suspicion ? of also they were infected, but what ? are waiting for result laboratorial ?, it revealed in Monday, during a press conference, Ars?nio Santos, coordinator of the group of attendance of the cases of flu A, created in Thursday in the CHUC. All the interned ones are ? in stable situation ?, it secured the doctor, advancing not to exist ? any situation ? regarding which ? negative evolution is predicted in the short term ? .N In the press conference, during which a death was confirmed, in Saturday, in the HUC, of a patient infected by the flu A (stock H1N1, which was suffering from other factors of risk), was announced also by experts of the General-direction of the Health (DGS), who moved the Inhabitant of Coimbra in order that proceeded, with persons in charge of the CHUC, the ? evaluation of the situation ?, having ended what, ? as it would be of waiting ?, one is ? surviving a situation inside the normality, without necessity of alarmismos ?.

The technological development and of the knowledge on the flu A and virus H1N1, reached after the pandemia (in 2009), allows, at present, the identification of cases that were not detected, it underlined Filipe Froes, of the DGS, explaining that the numbers of cases registered in this healthy ? normal ? or same year ? a little bit below the previous years ?. Over there he said, supported, ? in 99,9 % of the cases this flu is kind ?, what it means that ? there is not I cause none for social alarm and that the persons must keep on treating the flu as always they negotiated, i.e. with the usual resources ?, it affirmed warning that, ? in case of doubt ?, the persons can resort to the Line 24. On the cases of flu A in Inhabitant of Coimbra, that person in charge thought that ? there is a coincidence storm in his conglomeration ?, when there detected ? no relation of the causality ? between these cases. In Inhabitant of Coimbra, to be if - ?, it admitted, before ? a circumstantial situation ?. The CHUC ? is totally equipped by technical, scientific and human ways to deal with this situation, perfectly controlled and totally explained, identified and solved ?, it secured Filipe Froes. ? A situation as this one can ? ? shape, however, a picture of alarmismo socially ?, it recognized the clinical director of the CHUC, Jos? Peter Figueiredo, supporting that that ? can be fought only through the frank, loyal and deep information ?, purpose with which the press conference of this Monday was promoted.

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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra

DGS confirms 27 hospitalizations and 4 deaths for flu

The General-direction of the Health (DGS) informed today what were turned back 27 cases of internamento, due to the flu, from which four turned in death, numbers that are inside the expected one and up to lightly below the registered one in last year.



In agreement with the subdirector of the DGS, Grace Freitas, there is a group of ? hospitals sentry ? what turn back the number of cases of internamento in intensive cares and what, even at the moment, turned back 27 cases, which ? is inside the waited one for the time ?.



? Of these 27 cases, there are four known deaths ?, it added, underlining that, ? compared with the homologous period, there is no the excess of mortality that happened in last year ?.



According to the person in charge, in last grippal time, there was a very accented peak, which coincided with a bigger incidence of flu.



Oppositely to this situation, this year ? the grippal activity is moderated, we are reaching the peak of the flu, but it is not explosive, is also moderate ?, it affirmed.



As for four moderate deaths, Grace Freitas explained that it the question is sporadic cases of persons with associate complications, which evolved into death.



? This is the normal thing, there is no reason for alarm, they are persons whose basic situation was already not good, persons with a vulnerability bigger than a healthy person ?, it added.



The person in charge underlined that every winter there is flu, persons who are ill and who are cured, others that are interned and others that die, reason because every year to DGS pass appeals to the vaccination and to habits of hygiene of the hands and respiratory, to moderate the epidemics of flu.



The Nosocomial Centre of the University of Inhabitant of Coimbra (CHUC) communicated today the death of a woman there interned, with confirmed diagnosis of flu A and co-morbilidades when they were associated, increasing so, for two, the number of deaths in the unities of the city.



In press conference carried out in Monday, the CHUC had already confirmed the death of a person, in Saturday, also infected with flu A, e what ? was suffering from other factors of risk ?.



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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra - two deaths

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra - two deaths

Second confirmed death
in Inhabitant of Coimbra with flu A

It raised for 15 the number of patients interned in Inhabitant of Coimbra.
Coordinator of the Nosocomial and University Centre guarantees
which deaths belong to persons with other associate diseases

Journalist: Ana Margalho with LusaEdi??o of: On Wednesday, February 27, 2013th Nosocomial and University Centre of Inhabitant of Coimbra (CHUC) confirmed yesterday the death of one more person interned in the Intensive Cares of that nosocomial unity with the virus of the flu A, increasing for two the number of deaths in the CHUC associated to this disease. Such as it happened with the man that it died in last Friday, also in this case, the woman who died on Monday at night had, when they were associated to the flu A, other complications of health, which will have aggravated his state.

http://www.diariocoimbra.pt//noticias/confirmada-segunda-morte-em-coimbra-com-gripe
 
Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra - two deaths

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra - two deaths

Portugal: Attack of swine flu - four fatal victims
Lisbon : Portugal | Feb 26, 2013 at 9:25 PM PST BY amagda

Another three people with swine flu, in Portugal, died on Tuesday, bringing to four the number of deaths caused by the H1N1 virus. Hospitals still there are about 30 patientsin a serious condition.
In Portugal, the rapidly increasing number of deaths among patients with swine flu.General Directorate for Health (DGS) in Lisbon, said on Tuesday evening that the lastday recorded three deaths, and the number of people infected with the virus has increased threefold during this time.
As reported by DGS Deputy Director, Gra?a Freitas, now in intensive care inPortuguese hospitals are about 30 patients suffering from the flu.
...
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Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra - two deaths

Re: Portugal: Nine persons in ICU with flu A in Coimbra - two deaths

Virus of the flu A does fifth mortal victim

The Nosocomial and University Centre of Inhabitant of Coimbra announced this Friday that one of his patients, infected with flu A, died again.

This is already the fifth death associated to the virus this week, the third one to be registered in Inhabitant of Coimbra, when remainder happened in Portalegre. In notice, the Nosocomial Centre adds still what has 16 patients interned with the virus H1N1.


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