Influenza A is the critical situation in Santa Fe
Crece mortality, there were 62 victims across the province and is near to overcome lethal cases in Buenos Aires; pathology prior
THE NATION
SANTA FE .- The province is on track to become the the largest number of fatalities caused by the epidemic of influenza A (H1N1).
Yesterday, the number of deaths officially reached 62, four more than before. 760 cases were virologically confirmed, leaving 400 out of 5250 tokens were admitted to the system web monitoring the epidemic. Until yesterday, in the province of Buenos Aires, which concentrates the largest number of fatalities, there were 72 victims.
Here, the picture of health is considered very critical.Santa Fe, gradually is becoming the territory most affected by the virus.
While yesterday acknowledged a decline in the number of influenza A by thousands of professionals working 15 hours per day to care for the sick. And the warnings were ratified: the government will license up to 27 this month, it is likely that the resumption of school, scheduled for that date was postponed another week, and speculation with a new closure of public places such as casinos and shopping malls.
These days, during the winter holiday period, many Santa Fe occupy public spaces along with their families, to take advantage of outdoor activities. Rosario and the coastal districts between Santa Fe and are re-elected, although the hotel reservations and gastronomic activity fell 40 percent.
It also jeopardized the election for governor in Vera, scheduled for next Sunday, seven months after the assassination of the mayor, the radical Raul Encina Seco.
Asked the candidates to the governor, Hermes Binner, postponement, "taking into account the cases in that city would risk being increased with a concentration of people in the local vote."
Aggravated cases
For monitoring the epidemic influenza conducted in the province shows that the virus was lethal in patients with pathologies that prior consultation late aggravated cases. According to La Nacion had access, 80 percent of the 62 deaths suffered any disease, like diabetes, AIDS or immunosuppressive diseases.
Faced with the sudden rise in the number of deaths, the provincial government consulted with experts from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of United States (CDC).
"We analyzed the situation with the technicians because Santa Fe province is a serious, giving all the details. We believe that studying the data of deaths by influenza A is important in order to defeat the pandemic, they are preliminary data that may be useful later in order to progress and develop specific health measures, "said Santa Fe Health Minister, Miguel Angel Cappiello.
"The variation of the numbers [of cases registered in connection with monitoring conducted at the national level] is related to an adjustment in the system of disease surveillance, which is closer to reality," said the Secretary of Health Debora Ferrandini, who confirmed that measures of social distancing and school closures have helped reduce the spread of the virus.
The province began the week today with a steady decrease of the consultations and the communists, even though it still shows the increase in international in intensive care in serious cases.
Cappiello said: "We must remain alert to this disease because in the northern hemisphere there is a resurgence, despite the summer. The eyes of the world are in Argentina and in the southern hemisphere, where other viruses are circulating" typical of the winter season.
The threat of dengue
But the crisis for the health of Santa Fe will not end with influenza A. Epidemic in full, the provincial Ministry of Health activated the alarm against the possibility that there were a strong resurgence of dengue in the cold decline.
Therefore, starting from August descacharrado tasks and eliminating mosquito breeding grounds, in addition to a new awareness campaign. The fear is that the excess of reported cases during the summer when there were more than 1,300 infected in the province.
The possible reappearance of dengue would carry the risk that the outbreak was more aggressive than the previous one. "There is the possibility of severe dengue, stronger than feverish. Do not be ruled out against the threat of a new epidemic. If we eliminate reservoirs [Aedes aegypti mosquito, vector of the dengue virus] in the country, is highly probable. There are three serotypes [infectious microorganisms] of the disease circulating in South America, "said Ferrandini.
THE NATION
SANTA FE .- The province is on track to become the the largest number of fatalities caused by the epidemic of influenza A (H1N1).
Yesterday, the number of deaths officially reached 62, four more than before. 760 cases were virologically confirmed, leaving 400 out of 5250 tokens were admitted to the system web monitoring the epidemic. Until yesterday, in the province of Buenos Aires, which concentrates the largest number of fatalities, there were 72 victims.
Here, the picture of health is considered very critical.Santa Fe, gradually is becoming the territory most affected by the virus.
While yesterday acknowledged a decline in the number of influenza A by thousands of professionals working 15 hours per day to care for the sick. And the warnings were ratified: the government will license up to 27 this month, it is likely that the resumption of school, scheduled for that date was postponed another week, and speculation with a new closure of public places such as casinos and shopping malls.
These days, during the winter holiday period, many Santa Fe occupy public spaces along with their families, to take advantage of outdoor activities. Rosario and the coastal districts between Santa Fe and are re-elected, although the hotel reservations and gastronomic activity fell 40 percent.
It also jeopardized the election for governor in Vera, scheduled for next Sunday, seven months after the assassination of the mayor, the radical Raul Encina Seco.
Asked the candidates to the governor, Hermes Binner, postponement, "taking into account the cases in that city would risk being increased with a concentration of people in the local vote."
Aggravated cases
For monitoring the epidemic influenza conducted in the province shows that the virus was lethal in patients with pathologies that prior consultation late aggravated cases. According to La Nacion had access, 80 percent of the 62 deaths suffered any disease, like diabetes, AIDS or immunosuppressive diseases.
Faced with the sudden rise in the number of deaths, the provincial government consulted with experts from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of United States (CDC).
"We analyzed the situation with the technicians because Santa Fe province is a serious, giving all the details. We believe that studying the data of deaths by influenza A is important in order to defeat the pandemic, they are preliminary data that may be useful later in order to progress and develop specific health measures, "said Santa Fe Health Minister, Miguel Angel Cappiello.
"The variation of the numbers [of cases registered in connection with monitoring conducted at the national level] is related to an adjustment in the system of disease surveillance, which is closer to reality," said the Secretary of Health Debora Ferrandini, who confirmed that measures of social distancing and school closures have helped reduce the spread of the virus.
The province began the week today with a steady decrease of the consultations and the communists, even though it still shows the increase in international in intensive care in serious cases.
Cappiello said: "We must remain alert to this disease because in the northern hemisphere there is a resurgence, despite the summer. The eyes of the world are in Argentina and in the southern hemisphere, where other viruses are circulating" typical of the winter season.
The threat of dengue
But the crisis for the health of Santa Fe will not end with influenza A. Epidemic in full, the provincial Ministry of Health activated the alarm against the possibility that there were a strong resurgence of dengue in the cold decline.
Therefore, starting from August descacharrado tasks and eliminating mosquito breeding grounds, in addition to a new awareness campaign. The fear is that the excess of reported cases during the summer when there were more than 1,300 infected in the province.
The possible reappearance of dengue would carry the risk that the outbreak was more aggressive than the previous one. "There is the possibility of severe dengue, stronger than feverish. Do not be ruled out against the threat of a new epidemic. If we eliminate reservoirs [Aedes aegypti mosquito, vector of the dengue virus] in the country, is highly probable. There are three serotypes [infectious microorganisms] of the disease circulating in South America, "said Ferrandini.
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