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Portuguese to English translation
With 162 suspected cases, the city of EC has the swine flu outbreak November 27, 2011 ? 12:15 ? updated at 12:18
Residents of the municipality of Pedra Branca in the central region of the interior of Cear?, are scared by the outbreak of swine flu (H1N1) reaching the city. Only in 63 cases were reported Saturday, according to the State Department of Health, but so far only 11 have been confirmed. In all, 162 suspected cases have been subjected to investigation in the city.
Pedra Branca lies 261 km from Fortaleza and doctors working with the hypothesis that the outbreak started in the State School of Professional Education Ant?nio Rodrigues de Oliveira. The unit was inaugurated this year and offered courses for students in first year of high school with classes in various specialties.
According to local hospital officials, dozens of students at the school showed the same symptoms, dry cough, muscle aches and headache, classic swine influenza caused by Influenza virus A (H1N1) and famous in 2009 by the pandemic. The suspicion is that workers born in White Rock and migrate to cut sugar cane in the southeast have returned to the Cear? and had contact with at least a high school student.
The cases in the city have been treated as "surge" and none of the records is considered serious. Tamiflu, a drug used to treat the disease, only came to town to 17h Saturday and, according to hospital officials in the city until Sunday morning nobody was being treated with medication. The Secretary of Health of Cear? Arruda Bastos, said he would later this Sunday to the city to monitor the case closely and also provide further information to the public.
Portuguese to English translation
With 162 suspected cases, the city of EC has the swine flu outbreak November 27, 2011 ? 12:15 ? updated at 12:18
Residents of the municipality of Pedra Branca in the central region of the interior of Cear?, are scared by the outbreak of swine flu (H1N1) reaching the city. Only in 63 cases were reported Saturday, according to the State Department of Health, but so far only 11 have been confirmed. In all, 162 suspected cases have been subjected to investigation in the city.
Pedra Branca lies 261 km from Fortaleza and doctors working with the hypothesis that the outbreak started in the State School of Professional Education Ant?nio Rodrigues de Oliveira. The unit was inaugurated this year and offered courses for students in first year of high school with classes in various specialties.
According to local hospital officials, dozens of students at the school showed the same symptoms, dry cough, muscle aches and headache, classic swine influenza caused by Influenza virus A (H1N1) and famous in 2009 by the pandemic. The suspicion is that workers born in White Rock and migrate to cut sugar cane in the southeast have returned to the Cear? and had contact with at least a high school student.
The cases in the city have been treated as "surge" and none of the records is considered serious. Tamiflu, a drug used to treat the disease, only came to town to 17h Saturday and, according to hospital officials in the city until Sunday morning nobody was being treated with medication. The Secretary of Health of Cear? Arruda Bastos, said he would later this Sunday to the city to monitor the case closely and also provide further information to the public.