09-07-2009 08:54:00
CIFRAS differ
Influenza A: 70 officers killed, 82 unofficial
In a span of just 12 days since the elections on June 28 last to date, the fatal cases of influenza A confirmed by the Government increased from 26 to 70 in the country, representing an increase of 170 percent, according official data.
(DIARIOC, 09/07/2009) Minister of Health of the Nation, Juan Manzur, confirmed Wednesday that 10 new deaths from the influenza A/H1N1 in Argentina, after having maintained for three days as the figure of 60 official sum and insisted that more than 100 thousand potential infection.
In a meeting with senators in Congress, where he attended to provide a report to the heads of banks on the disease, Manzur here refused to register a death rate higher than that of other countries affected by the pandemic.
However, in the same meeting, members of the Senate expressed concern about the progress of influenza A and said they "are being manipulated" the figures.
Senator Maria Eugenia Estenssoro, the Civic Coalition, also criticized the government in general and the minister Manzur including a "lack of accurate information" regarding the new influenza, according to unofficial data have already caused the deaths of 82 people the country.
"They are manipulating statistics, as in other areas," Estenssoro said to the press after a meeting that was held behind closed doors and lasted about two hours.
The figure of 70 cases confirmed by Manzur lethal means in less than 10 days after the national legislative elections in late June, there were 70 percent more deaths (44) reported that an official during the two months prior to elections.
Since April 26, when the state of alert in Argentina by the advance of influenza A in the world, through Friday June 26, when it was disclosed last part of the daily national Ministry of Health before vote (number 59), the deceased was only 26 "official" and the 1587 cases of the disease.
Immediately after the elections and the resignation of Graciela Ocaña the head of the national health, the episodes began to multiply lethal, while experts estimate that the peak of the epidemiological curve of the new flu will occur in 10 days.
Taken together the data from the Government to manage these hours by the provincial ministers of Health, deaths from influenza A in the country would amount to 82, with 2780 cases of evil.
Unofficial FIGURES
Influenza A is still ongoing, and five provinces reported deaths this week. Seven other people died of the H1N1 virus and was unofficially spoke of 84 fatalities.
Namely, there were three deaths in Santa Fe, now 21 total deaths from influenza and lies second after the province of Buenos Aires which has 42 fatalities.
In San Juan, on the other hand, confirmed the death of a baby of only 8 months when he was transferred in an aircraft emergency health. The director of epidemiology in the province, Frida Cappato, on Monday reported the first death by the new influenza: a housewife of 38 years that did not belong to any risk group. " The woman suffered "complications" as a result of the flu and would have had a multiorgan failure. "
In Santa Cruz was killed two years of a child from influenza A. In Neuquén, the Undersecretary of Health reported that according to the results of a sample sent to the Institute Malbrán, one person died of influenza.
In Cordova there were two fatalities. It was in San Francisco, where he died a man of 39 years and a woman of 26 years, 12 days before it was mother. While another pregnant woman is placed in a San Francisco hospital in serious condition with symptoms of influenza A, as a teenager of 14 years in state boarding school reserved to the Children's Hospital in the city of Cordova.
For these times are still known more deaths came as an official part of the new deaths from the flu.
Unofficial figures:
Buenos Aires: 42 dead, 779 infected
Santa Fe: 21 dead, 400 infected
Buenos Aires: 7 dead, 936 infected
Mendoza: 3 dead, 4 infected
Cordova: 2 dead, 31 infected
San Juan: 2 deaths, 23 infected
Missions: 2 dead, 20 infected
Santa Cruz: 1 dead, 39 infected
Neuquén: 1 dead, 56 infected
Tierra del Fuego: 103 infected
Metropolitan unspecified: 1 dead, 155 infected
The total across the country: 82 dead, infected 2780
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