Friday, June 25, 2010

Is ruled out bird flu in Colombia

00 06/25/2010
District Health Secretary, Héctor Rodríguez Zambrano, reported Friday that according to World Health Organization, WHO, Latin America there is no presence of the H5N1 virus or bird flu.
In this way, the secretary made the aclaraci Zambrano

ion to speculation that in Colombia there were cases of the outbreak, which is stronger than H1N1.

In a statement from the Secretariat

ed of Health, noted that "according to reports from the World Health Organization, at present the H5N1 virus only affects Asian countries, so has ruled out the presence of the epidemic in countries of America and the European continent. "

It explains
or that "today in the world there are 492 confirmed cases of the new virus and 291 people have died in Asia."
In both
recent years, the District Department of Health conducted two simulations in Bogotá in order to test the capability of immediate response to a suspected or confirmed cases of influenza of avian origin, in which saw the participation of authorities in Eldorado Airport Hospitals Public Network Bogotá.

Anyway, was reported
or that health authorities in Colombia are kept in constant disease monitoring and prevention activities ahead of possible pandemic of the virus or similar.

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