Spain - Suspected Swine Cases April 26 +

[Legadillo]

Spain tests three for swine flu

Three Spanish nationals have been placed in isolation after showing flu symptoms following a recent visit to Mexico, where swine flu is believed to have killed at least 80, officials said Sunday.

MADRID - Three Spanish nationals have been placed in isolation after showing flu symptoms following a recent visit to Mexico, where swine flu is believed to have killed at least 80, officials said Sunday.

"These people have been isolated while we wait for results of tests which have been carried out on them," to determine whether they have contracted the disease, said Spanish Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez.

"This is simply a case of people presenting with symptoms of flu and who have returned from Mexico in the last two, three or four days," she said, emphasising these were "precautionary measures".

The three have been hospitalised in the northern city of Bilbao, Almansa in the southeast and the eastern city of Valencia.

The government has asked the airport authority for help in tracking the other passengers on their flights.

The World Health Organisation branded the Mexico outbreak "a public health emergency of international concern," following a meeting of its emergency committee.

It recommended that all nations intensify surveillance "for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia".

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[Diane Morin]

Spain: 3 isolated suspect cases (Bilbao, Almansa and Valence)

Spain: 3 isolated suspect cases (Bilbao, Almansa and Valence)

Machine translation

Porcine influenza: suspect cases in Spain

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<!-- infos -->Three Spaniards ?presenting of the symptoms of influenza and having recently remained to Mexico? were placed ?in observation? and were isolated in Spain, announced to Sunday the Minister Spanish for Health, Trinidad Jimenez.

?These people were isolated in waiting from the results from the examinations which were practised to them? to determine if they are reached porcine influenza, the minister at the time of a press conference added, specifying that their state was not ?not serious?.
?They are simply people presenting of the symptoms of influenza and returned of Mexico since two, three or four days?, underlined Mrs. Jimenez, specifying that it was about a ?measure of precaution?.

These three people, very of Spanish nationality, are hospitalized in Bilbao (northern), Almansa (south-eastern) and Valence (is), indicated the minister.

The Spanish government in addition asked Aena, the company manager of the Spanish airports, information on the people having travelled on the same flights as the people placed in observation.

The last assessment of the porcine influenza appeared in Mexico rises with 81 deceased suspects since April 13, of which 20 were confirmed like having been caused by the virus, according to the Mexican Minister for Health, Jose Angel Cordova.

The European commission indicated Sunday to follow ?of very close? the evolution of this virus, whose World Health Organization (WHO) underlined Saturday the ?pandemic potential?.

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[Legadillo]

Re: Possible Swine Flu in Spain

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Reuters
EU Commission: no swine flu reported yet in Europe

By Darren Ennis

BRUSSELS, April 26 (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Sunday that no cases of a new type of swine flu that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico and infected others in the United States have been reported so far in Europe.

"Until now we have no reported cases in Europe. We are following very closely the situation as it evolves," a spokeswoman for the EU executive, which oversees human and animal health policy in the 27-nation bloc, said.

"Constant contacts with the European Centre for Disease Control, the U.S., Mexico, WHO (World Health Organisation) and member states are ongoing and we are evaluating the information we have already."

The head of the WHO has called for greater worldwide surveillance for any unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness after her organisation declared the Mexican flu outbreak as a "public health event of international concern."

The new flu strain, a mixture of various swine, bird and human viruses, poses the biggest risk of a large-scale pandemic since avian flu surfaced in 1997, killing several hundred people. [ID:nN24420522]


SUSPECTED CASES

The Spanish authorities said they had placed three people under continuous observation after they arrived from Mexico with symptoms of influenza and in France two people, also returning from Mexico, were being tested for the disease.

Tests on a British Airways cabin crew member taken to a London hospital suffering flu-like symptoms showed he does not have swine flu.

New flu strains can spread quickly because no one has natural immunity to them and a vaccine takes months to develop.

Spain's Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez said it will take about 48 hours of observation to clarify whether the three people there are suffering from swine flu.

He said the authorities are also contacting all people who travelled on the same flights to ask if they are suffering from symptoms of flu.

A French Health Ministry spokeswoman said there were two unconfirmed cases but declined to give further details. Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot was due to hold the first of a series of daily news conferences on swine flu on Sunday afternoon.

"We have identified two suspect cases, two people who were returning from Mexico and who had fever and who are currently being investigated," French public health director Didier Houssin told RTL radio.

"In the coming days or weeks we will necessarily be confronted with increasing numbers of people returning from that region about whom we will have suspicions." (Reporting by Darren Ennis in Brussels, Jonathan Gleave in Madrid Francois Murphy in Paris and Avril Ormsby in London, editing by Matthew Jones)

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[Legadillo]

Re: Spain - Suspected Swine Cases April 26 +

Spain Finance Min: Seeks To Quell Concerns On Swine Flu
Sun, Apr 26 2009, 17:57 GMT
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Spain Finance Min: Seeks To Quell Concerns On Swine Flu

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado on Sunday sought to quell concerns about swine flu in her country, saying that Spain is well prepared to face any threat from the disease.

Salgado told a press conference in Washington she was "absolutely tranquil." "Our health system is very solid," she told reporters on the sidelines of the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

Spain's Health Ministry Sunday said three persons have been brought to Spanish hospitals in the last 24 hours with symptoms of potential swine flu, in what may be the first recorded cases of the virus in Europe.

The European Commission said Sunday it is concerned by an outbreak of swine flu in Mexico and the U.S. and is watching the situation very closely.

At least 81 people in Mexico have died from severe pneumonia caused by the illness, according to the World Health Organization.

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[Legadillo]

Re: Spain - Suspected Swine Cases April 26 +

UPDATE:

Spain Reveals 3 Suspected Swine Flu Cases


MADRID -- The Health Ministry has detected three suspected cases of swine flu in Spain in people who have returned from Mexico in recent days, Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez said Sunday.

One of the three cases of people with flu symptoms was detected Saturday night and the other two on Sunday morning in the cities of Almansa, Bilbao and Valencia, where the three people remain hospitalized, although "none of them are in serious condition."

The three are being tested and it will not be possible for 48 hours to determine conclusively whether they are suffering from the A/H1N1 virus, Jimenez said.

The minister made the announcement at a press conference after a working meeting at the ministry to analyze the swine flu outbreak in humans in Mexico and the United States.

"We not facing an emergency situation" but rather a "calm" one, Jimenez said.

Last Thursday night, when the ministry received the first communications from the World Health Organization, or WHO, it activated the pre-planned protocol in the National Preparation and Response Plan for a Flu Epidemic, Jimenez said.

The ministry, via the AENA airport authority, got in contact with the passengers who shared the flights with the three people who are being tested for swine flu and they were informed that if they start showing flu symptoms they should go to the health authorities in their respective communities as a preventive measure.

In addition, all travelers returning from Mexico or the United States are being asked to be very cautious about their health during the next 10 days, which is the estimated incubation period for this type of flu.

To accomplish this, a team of doctors from the Foreign Health Service is working at the Madrid-Barajas airport.

The Spanish government cannot recommend that citizens not travel to the affected zones and will only make that decision if it is recommended by WHO, which is maintaining a level 3 alert on the matter, Jimenez said.

There is no risk of transmission by consuming pork products, since the infection is only spread from human to human through the air, Jimenez said.

According to the latest data available from WHO, in the United States 11 cases have been detected - seven in California, two in Texas and two in Kansas - and nobody has died, but in Mexico there have been 878 cases and some 60 suspicious deaths, only 20 of which are definitively known to have been as a result of swine flu.

WHO has sent experts to those two countries to evaluate the situation on the ground "and be able to have more precise information," said the Spanish minister.

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hat tip friend of FT -


Three New Suspected Swine Flu Cases Detected in Spain, AFP Says
2009-04-26 17:45:38.995 GMT


By Thomas Biesheuvel
April 26 (Bloomberg) -- Three new suspected swine flu cases
have been detected by health workers in Spain, bringing to six
the number of suspected cases in the country, Agence France-
Presse said, citing officials in Spain?s northeast region of
Catalonia.

 

[Diane Morin]

Re: Spain - Suspected Swine Cases April 26 +

Cr?dits: Lili

Machine translation

Eight possible cases of porcine influenza in Spain

MADRID - Seven possible cases of porcine influenza were detected in Spain, indicated Sunday the Spanish health authorities.

Three people, two women of 21 and 24 years and a 22 year old man, residing in Catalonia and having travelled recently to Mexico, suffer from light symptoms of influenza, indicated Marina Geli it responsible for the Health of the Catalan regional government.

She added that the three patients were in observation and that their health condition evolved/moved favorably.

Five other cases, according to the health authorities, were detected with Bilbao (northern), Almansa (south-eastern) and Valence (is), Teruel (northern) and Algeciras (southern).

The last possible case concerns a 22 year old young woman returned last Tuesday of a stay in the famous Mexican seaside resort of Cancun (the Caribbean), according to the health authorities.

The young woman felt the first symt?mes two days after her return and was hospitalized.

The results of the analyses carried out on all its people should be communicated in next the 48 hours, according to the authorities.

(?AFP/April 26, 2009 23:04)

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[Legadillo]

Re: Spain - Suspected Swine Cases April 26 +

10 Possible Cases in Spain

Tenth case of suspected swine flu in Spain

Two more suspected cases of swine flu have been discovered in Spain, bringing the total number to 10, hospital sources and health officials said Monday. The cases were discovered in Barcelona and in the central region of Castile-La Mancha.

Patients suspected of suffering from swine flu are being kept in isolation under observation in several hospitals across the country, Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez said.

The patients were young Spaniards who had returned recently from Mexico. None of them was reported in a serious condition.

The authorities were currently identifying passengers who had been on the same flights in case test results confirmed that some of the 10 were suffering from swine flu, press reports said.

The first test results were expected shortly.

Jimenez advised Spaniards not to travel to Mexico if they could avoid it, and to monitor their health for ten days if they had just returned from the Latin American country.

Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was to meet Jimenez to analyse the situation.

The number of dead in Mexico's flu epidemic rose to 103, Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said late Sunday in a television interview without specifying how many among them had died of swine flu.


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[Gert van der Hoek]

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The fear of new infections of influenza A close second quarter in a Leon

Some 90 soldiers who last week visited the Academy of Engineers in Hoyo de Manzanares remain quarantined in Ferral, near the capital of Le?n



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The H1N1 virus of the new flu could have jumped to a second military installation, the garrison of El Ferral in the town of San Andres Leon Rabanedo. Noventaiuno its military last week visited the Academy of Engineers of the Army of Hoyo de Manzanares (Madrid) and their movements were restricted within the premises of suspected that one has contracted the virus.

Meanwhile, the military first outbreak of influenza A, the Academy of Madrid, registered two contagion 'external' to raise the number of infected to 20, a soldier hospitalized in Segovia this weekend while he was on leave, and a cleaning of the basis, a calendar of 21 years, diagnosed in Guadalajara and it discharged. All those infected have mild symptoms and recover without problems.

Spain, with 135 positive cases of influenza A, remains the European country most affected.

Of the 91 military Leon quarantined two are under medical observation with symptoms likely to be influenza A, as reported by the Ministry of Health reported in the newspaper about the evolution of the infection.

In Hoyo de Manzanares, while 74 people were still under study and another 500 remain in solitary comfort of the academy, in buildings, to prevent the spread of the virus. At first preventive quarantine was going to be limited to the last weekend, but the health authorities decided to extend and Defense.

"These people are isolated and under observation, and it will normally be about a week, but defining what we depend on the circumstances," said the secretary general of Health, Jos? Mart?nez Olmos.

The Academy of Engineers of the Army, whose facilities are located in the center of demining, has suspended all courses taught in facilities and are restricted to the maximum entry and exit of personnel from outside the base. Persons who access the site in any way come in contact with the military under quarantine.

For its part, continued on Monday admitted to a hospital in Segovia, the soldier of 23 years belonging to the base of Hoyo de Manzanares which influenza A was told during a leave in Segovia. According to doctors, is evolving satisfactorily.

In addition, the Centro Nacional de Microbiolog?a Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, confirmed another case of swine flu, the twenty-linked to the military base in Madrid.

This is a couple of 21 years working as a cleaner at the Academy. The patient, who resides in Torrej?n de Ardoz (Madrid), came last weekend to the clinic "Virgen de la Antigua," Guadalajara, with symptoms of suffering from the flu. Therefore, it was due to the Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara.

As reported Monday that the deputy provincial health in this province, Juan Pablo Martinez, "once seen as the symptoms were very mild, its isolation has been identified as home said the protocol". At the same time, people in the intimate environment of this young woman had been subjected to medical surveillance of suspected it may have become infected.

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The controversy over the secrecy of the first signs of the H1N1 virus in Hoyo de Manzanares by the military authorities, who allowed two school trips to facilities where patients had already under observation, he remained Monday. After hours of rumors and denials, the MoD confirmed that the minister, Carme Chacon, visited the school today and met with military commanders and to analyze the health situation and the conditions of the quarantine is subject to prudential Many of the staff.

The holder of Defense expected this week from the findings of the case ordered that information to clarify the timing and circumstances of the outbreak of influenza A. According to some reports, earlier last week and could see the staff of the base madrile?a with masks, but it the same day and on Wednesday held two scheduled visits to the village school.

Mart?nez Olmos, number two of Health, he ruled out any possibility of infection of children "because at no time been in contact with people under observation, in units that were located at least 500 meters from the place of visit. None of the children showed symptoms of flu, although "it was a mistake" not to cancel school activities, admitted this weekend of Defense sources.

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