Argentina: 100 are already dead by the H1N1 flu in the country

From the previous article. Dr. Chan:

Global barometer

During the summer break, all eyes are on the Southern Hemisphere, where the winter flu season is just getting under way.

Scientists are watching to see if the illness grows more severe. They want to know who is at greatest risk, and whether the virus will become drug-resistant or mutate away from the vaccines that big pharmaceutical companies are scrambling to develop.

The picture so far is “largely reassuring,” Dr. Margaret Chan, the World Health Organization’s secretary general, said at an international health meeting in Mexico last week. “The overwhelming majority of patients experience mild symptoms and make a full recovery within a week.”

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In Santa Fe today another confirmed fatality and Coast district nearly a third of people killed by the new flu. The district remains the worst affected province

With the confirmation of a new influenza deaths by health authorities of Santa Fe in Argentina there is already a hundred killed by swine flu, the first infection was detected in the country the first week of May.

In this way, the number of people killed in the province of Santa Fe for influenza A is 30, said today the deputy minister of Health, Debora Ferrandini who indicated that all cases are confirmed in laboratory tests.

The rest of the confirmed dead are distributed in the provinces of Misiones and Córdoba, with 3 deaths each, San Juan (2), Neuquén, Santa Cruz, Entre Rios, Formosa, and Black River, with one death in each district. The Federal Capital, in turn, confirmed 13 deaths by the new flu.

Influenza A in Santa Fe
Ferrandini the official said "so far not reached the 8,000 doses of the antibiotic Tamiflu, but remarked that" it is a matter of hours. "

However, as "very small amount insured" and said "this is not related to the logic of the distributive province."

Ferrandini said, in statements to the press, Santa Fe has a stock of Oseltamivir, which agreed to comply with the Federal Health and stated that each province would prefer to administer the dose according to your needs.

hat-tip Shiloh