Two killed, 7 patients with influenza A H1N1 in Cesar

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Are on alert health authorities in the Cesar for the serious consequences of influenza A H1N1. The disease leaves two people dead this year and seven confirmed patients, while about 12 cases are under study.
The dead of this disease were two adults who died in Valledupar in early June, a child also died, but has not yet been determined who has been with the virus, although in their family picture, her father was positive.
According to the Public Health Coordinator Cesar, Juan Morales, this year have been treated at hospitals and clinics 30 suspected cases of H1N1, a figure shot compared to 2010 when it reported a single patient.

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Re: Two killed, 7 patients with influenza A H1N1 in Cesar

Two patients have died and seven remain hospitalized due to an outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus in the northern Colombian department of Cesar, announced El Heraldo Thursday.

The public health coordinator for Cesar recorded five confirmed H1N1 patients in the department?s capital city of Valledupar, and one patient each in Curumani and Codazzi.

Another 12 possible cases are awaiting diagnosis.

The outbreak is an unfortunate shift from last year, when hospitals confirmed only one case of the H1N1 virus reported El Heraldo.

Public Health Coordinator Juan Morales told the newspaper that the number of cases recorded so far in 2011 is ?on par with what happened in in 2009, when there were 33 patients who tested positive and two deaths in Cesar.?

Morales advised communities to encourage citizens to take preventative measures, including wearing masks and visiting the doctor to report flu-like symptoms.

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Re: Two killed, 7 patients with influenza A H1N1 in Cesar

Patients with acute respiratory infection is suspected of H1N1


First confirmed cases of H1N1 in Cesar and two deaths that the disease caused in the last month, the Health Department alerted the department through a circular to clinics and hospitals in this area, catering for all patients admitted with suspicion acute respiratory disease.
He recommended starting the antiviral treatment and sampling in cases where the patient requires hospitalization or in the case of symptomatic healthcare workers or in the last eight days have been in close contact with persons affected with acute respiratory symptoms.
The Public Health Coordinator Cesar, Juan Morales, said people with fever of 38 degrees or more, severe headache, chills, frequent, extreme tiredness, dry cough, continuous, intense muscle pain and severe burning in the eyes should go immediately to nearest medical center.


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