Re: Bolivia reported 16 cases of influenza A (H1N1)
Re: Bolivia reported 16 cases of influenza A (H1N1)
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There are 18 cases of influenza A and activates the alert
Health officials ask people to return the hygiene to prevent seasonal flu virus and affecting more people to
Wilma Perez - La Paz Rate:
In less than three days were reported nine cases of H1N1 flu in the department of La Paz and the date and add 18 people affected by the virus. The Ministry of Health announced that activates the health monitoring to detect patients with this disease and flu.
The Chief Epidemiologist of the Departmental Service of Health (Headquarters) La Paz, Rene Barrientos, reported that of the 487 suspected cases of influenza A, reported in recent weeks in the hospitals of the region, nine were positive, four come from the city of El Alto, La Paz and three of unknown provenance of two other positive tests, which came to his office when the workday ended.
National Director of Epidemiology, Ren? Lenis, explained that to date the official report of people with influenza A department is: six in Santa Cruz, two in Trinidad, one in seven in Cochabamba and La Paz. The last two cases were confirmed in the afternoon, also in La Paz.
The Health Minister Nila Heredia, announced that it will implement an information campaign in the country to prevent the spread of influenza A and increased acute respiratory disease.
The 2009 Bolivia reported from May to December, 2,500 cases of people infected with influenza virus and 59 deaths. In this effort, the first report came in April in the city of Trinidad.
Campaign. The health minister said that to prevent the disease to increase more in the country, will work in space to remind people cleaning habits that spread last year.
"We will undertake an information campaign to return everyone to take preventive measures, such as the continuous washing of hands and cough etiquette to prevent the spread of disease. Information will be disseminated in television spots and distribute informational material to reach the population, "he said.
The National Director of Epidemiology reported that reactivated health protocols, such as control or request that the population does not attend many events agglomeration, in addition to wash their hands continuously, sneeze into disposable tissues, and not spitting on the streets.
Recommended to parents and education authorities to reactivate the epidemiological prevention filters in the educational units, when on Monday the resumption of school work. He called on parents not to send their children to school if they have any symptoms of flu, to prevent further infections in the classroom.
The Head of Epidemiology Headquarters announced that starting Monday there will be an intensified surveillance. "Every network management is taking responsibility for monitoring cases of colds and other side is dividing the city to have immediate response to cases that arise. In addition we will visit health facilities to explain to parents and teachers about the care to be taken to avoid the pandemic. "
Barrientos said the emergency department is in epidemiological and population reiterated to take hygiene habits that were established to stop the pandemic.
The Director of Health Service Cochabamba, Candido Muruchi, said work on the control of Acute Respiratory Infections with health brigades that will run from Tuesday, educational establishments providing health information. This week reported that 8099 cases were reported infections and 401 cases of pneumonia.
The classes in the Valley
Departmental Service Director of Education of Cochabamba, Jorge Ovando said to preserve the health of students, "reiterates that must have the necessary tolerance in the schedule of income and uniform.
The recommendation was made to the 42 district directors, also will keep the winter time, income is at 8.30 am. For the continued suspension of educational work, he said, was determined to change the school calendar and extend for 10 days of classes, ie students will Valle classes until mid-December, when they had to complete the work in late November.
Resume school filters
Regular Deputy Minister of Education, Ivan Villa, announced that from Monday Rotom school filters to prevent expand Acute Respiratory Infections and Influenza H1N1 in the student population.
The authority noted that like last year, parents should monitor their children, especially those younger than 12 years, no symptoms of a cold and if so, do not send them to school. The home is the first filter. The second filter is at the door of the educational unit, where a group of parents or teachers themselves should control students from entering a cold.
If this step is avoided, the classroom teacher to see, before school started, that no student has symptoms of a cold. If so, the teacher is required to send the student home or call his parents to take a treatment.
To identify the disease
Due to the similarity of the symptoms of common cold and flu H1N1, it is likely that the patient tends to be confused, however, influenza A illnesses are occurring less frequently than when you have flu.
"The H1N1 flu, patients have high fever, severe pain behind the eyes, there are demonstrations in skin temperature, with red spots, and also an intense muscle pain," he told this newspaper Eduardo Chavez, director Clinical Hospital.
In the common flu, the symptoms that occur may be similar, although with less intensity, he said. The physician said that the only way to specify the type of influenza that is suffering with a laboratory test. If the person has influenza A is required to undergo a course of Tamiflu to keep it simple.
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