Argentina: Deaths from influenza A in the province are already 18

05-07-2009

Reported Sunday evening that the provincial Ministry of Health


According to data provided by the Situation Room, there are more than 2,000 cases reported, of which 400 were confirmed as positive.Of the 15 deaths corresponding to node Rosario, Santa Fe to two and the rest of the Venado Tuerto.

The Ministry of Health in the province of Santa Fe reported tonight, through the Situation Room that operates under the Contingency Plan prepared in connection with the pandemic influenza A (H1N1), the total number of reported cases with Epidemiological fact sheets exceeds 2000, with 400 confirmed and 18 deaths, 15 of which belong to Node Rosario, one of the Venado Tuerto and two of Santa Fe

This record corresponds to the information available to date Sunday July 5 to 20 hours.

New Protocol

In relation to the cases reported by epidemiological record, stated that under the new protocol has been performed only for severe cases confirmed virological and interned.

On the deceased, the report states that all have virologic confirmation Influenza A (H1N1) and ages ranging from 6 to 59 years (11 women and 7 men).

Also, the total deaths, 12 had risk factors and 6 had no prior record of risk.

Lower the amount of international consultations and

Provisional data on the production of services because it was noted that in the last week can be seen coming down the outpatient visits in health centers and hospital guards, while the amount internments.

30,000 claims from outpatient care, and guards have internments 13,000 influenza-like disease diagnosis.

Behavior of the epidemic

Regarding the evolution of the pandemic influenza A (H1 N1) in the provincial territory, the behavior varies in different geographical areas, which has already begun to overlap with the high incidence of respiratory disease which is the seasonal period.

There is a group of cities among which are Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe, Rosario and other locations in the metropolitan area where there has been movement from one person to another influenza virus, while another group does not report suspected cases or are isolated cases that can be linked directly with patients in close contact with these other cities in the province of Buenos Aires or.

Intervention Strategies

For these reasons the strategies have been adapted to the time evolution of the epidemic in each place, giving rise to two protocols of intervention:

For the first group of cities virological diagnosis in the public network (for laboratory confirmation of cases) is no longer used only for inpatients, and therefore all cases of disease that occur with temperature of 38 º and flu symptoms are considered generically as "influenza-like illness."

For the second group of cities, it continues with the approach of all laboratory-confirmed cases to generate suspicion, leading to the categorization that until now was used to transmit information on the epidemiological situation as if "suspect" or "confirmed" influenza.

Epidemiological

This heterogeneity, added to the difficulties offered by the epidemiological surveillance underreporting or delays in the transfer of files complaint, determined that the party has lost its epidemiological daily value it had at the beginning of the epidemic as a document for communication to the public of developments across the province.

That is decided in accordance with the decision by the Ministry of Health of Nation, an update of epidemiological day by hand, appealing to the mass media to disseminate news to the community in terms of new measures containment social lethal cases or changes in the protocols.

Source: Ministry of Communications.
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