After the cases and confirmed in United Kingdom and Spain, Commissioner of Health recommends no travel to Mexico or United States
OLGA R. SANMARTIN / JOAQUIN MANSO / Madrid
The swine flu has been installed in Europe. Definitivamente.La Spanish Minister for Health and Social Policy, Trinidad Jimenez, announced yesterday that the couple entered Almansa (Albacete) has tested positive for H1N1 virus. This is the first confirmed case in the EU since it was unleashed in Mexico the first outbreaks.
The disease that has brought disgrace to American country (already counted 149 dead) moving at high speed through the rest of the world. U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom have also confirmed the existence of 40, six and two cases in their respective territories.
The fear is especially intense in Europe, where the Commissioner of Health of the EU, Androulla Vassiliou, yesterday recommended to avoid travel to Mexico and the USA. Germany, France, Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden, among others, suspect that the pathogen is already within their borders.
The alarm also extended yesterday, minute after minute for Spain, and the Ministry of Health did not give of themselves to one to ratify an all alerts. Therefore, Trinidad Jiménez had to consolidate data from all governments and appear twice before the media to update the list of infected.
Last night, the confirmed cases by the government amounted to 27.Se question of that couple of Almansa, and 26 other people under observation in different regions: 10 in Catalonia, four in Madrid, the Balearics and two one in Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Castilla y Leon, Castilla-La Mancha, Valencia, Galicia, Murcia, Basque Country and Rioja.
All of them were infected during recent trips to Mexico and no serious. 'A stable, evolving and responding well to treatment, "said Trinidad Jimenez, who explained that although there are 10 million doses of antiviral hoping that the medication is being provided to patients is symptomatic of any flu.
The minister made a gesture for all concerned is that día.Y Jimenez, who has only 20 days at the helm of the Ministry, it has touched a virus' new 'that is not known "neither evolution nor speed, nor their characteristics, or virulence.
Therefore, the Government has been careful to activate as soon as possible all preventive measures and emergency - 'We are the first country to have taken control and protection and we have to advance the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) "proclaimed the minister, and being in constant contact through protocols coordinated with all administrations, at global, European and autonomous.
Yesterday, Jimenez met for an hour with the chairman of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Shortly before he presided over the meeting of the National Executive Committee for the Prevention, Control and Monitoring of the epidemiological evolution of influenza virus, which brings together nine ministries, from a Health Affairs, through the Interior, Defense and Development, as well as Several regional governments.
And in the evening discussed the crisis for more than two hours with representatives of the health regions in an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Interregional Health was scheduled for tomorrow and finally went ahead at what is fast developing iban events.
The meeting decided that the Public Health Commission of the National Health System will meet at least once a day by video conference with all counsel and to maintain controls and surveillance on all flights originating from countries where notified cases.
No wonder. Iberia is the company that most travelers from Europe moved to Latin America, ahead of strong airlines such as Air France, British Airways and Lufthansa. In the last week estimated that more than 4200 passengers arrived at Madrid Barajas airport from Mexico City.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommended postponing travel to Mexico and to reconsider travel to the USA. No further steps are discarded in the next few hours, especially after that last night, the WHO revised its scale of alert levels for global epidemics and move from stage 3, which speaks of sporadic cases or small outbreaks in humans, the Phase 4, characterized by a human to human spread of a new viral strain capable of causing outbreaks in communities.
Jimenez yesterday wanted to convey a message of 'peace' and stressed that we can eat pork without incident (the virus is only transmitted between human airway), in which no affected farms, where Spain is one country completely safe and that the calls were received at the public information service of the Ministry of Health have not been as many as expected (about 1,000).
But the minister did not hide the fact that our country will have to adapt to phase 4 and would shortly be confirmed cases.
In the United Kingdom, the European country where there are already-infected man and a woman who arrived from Mexico on Tuesday and were hospitalized in Scotland, the health authorities have been supplied antivirals to treat more than 33 million people, equivalent to half the population, according to the agency Efe.
In Spain are defined along the criteria of today's administration of these drugs in the autonomous communities.
OLGA R. SANMARTIN / JOAQUIN MANSO / Madrid
The swine flu has been installed in Europe. Definitivamente.La Spanish Minister for Health and Social Policy, Trinidad Jimenez, announced yesterday that the couple entered Almansa (Albacete) has tested positive for H1N1 virus. This is the first confirmed case in the EU since it was unleashed in Mexico the first outbreaks.
The disease that has brought disgrace to American country (already counted 149 dead) moving at high speed through the rest of the world. U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom have also confirmed the existence of 40, six and two cases in their respective territories.
The fear is especially intense in Europe, where the Commissioner of Health of the EU, Androulla Vassiliou, yesterday recommended to avoid travel to Mexico and the USA. Germany, France, Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden, among others, suspect that the pathogen is already within their borders.
The alarm also extended yesterday, minute after minute for Spain, and the Ministry of Health did not give of themselves to one to ratify an all alerts. Therefore, Trinidad Jiménez had to consolidate data from all governments and appear twice before the media to update the list of infected.
Last night, the confirmed cases by the government amounted to 27.Se question of that couple of Almansa, and 26 other people under observation in different regions: 10 in Catalonia, four in Madrid, the Balearics and two one in Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Castilla y Leon, Castilla-La Mancha, Valencia, Galicia, Murcia, Basque Country and Rioja.
All of them were infected during recent trips to Mexico and no serious. 'A stable, evolving and responding well to treatment, "said Trinidad Jimenez, who explained that although there are 10 million doses of antiviral hoping that the medication is being provided to patients is symptomatic of any flu.
The minister made a gesture for all concerned is that día.Y Jimenez, who has only 20 days at the helm of the Ministry, it has touched a virus' new 'that is not known "neither evolution nor speed, nor their characteristics, or virulence.
Therefore, the Government has been careful to activate as soon as possible all preventive measures and emergency - 'We are the first country to have taken control and protection and we have to advance the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) "proclaimed the minister, and being in constant contact through protocols coordinated with all administrations, at global, European and autonomous.
Yesterday, Jimenez met for an hour with the chairman of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Shortly before he presided over the meeting of the National Executive Committee for the Prevention, Control and Monitoring of the epidemiological evolution of influenza virus, which brings together nine ministries, from a Health Affairs, through the Interior, Defense and Development, as well as Several regional governments.
And in the evening discussed the crisis for more than two hours with representatives of the health regions in an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Interregional Health was scheduled for tomorrow and finally went ahead at what is fast developing iban events.
The meeting decided that the Public Health Commission of the National Health System will meet at least once a day by video conference with all counsel and to maintain controls and surveillance on all flights originating from countries where notified cases.
No wonder. Iberia is the company that most travelers from Europe moved to Latin America, ahead of strong airlines such as Air France, British Airways and Lufthansa. In the last week estimated that more than 4200 passengers arrived at Madrid Barajas airport from Mexico City.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommended postponing travel to Mexico and to reconsider travel to the USA. No further steps are discarded in the next few hours, especially after that last night, the WHO revised its scale of alert levels for global epidemics and move from stage 3, which speaks of sporadic cases or small outbreaks in humans, the Phase 4, characterized by a human to human spread of a new viral strain capable of causing outbreaks in communities.
Jimenez yesterday wanted to convey a message of 'peace' and stressed that we can eat pork without incident (the virus is only transmitted between human airway), in which no affected farms, where Spain is one country completely safe and that the calls were received at the public information service of the Ministry of Health have not been as many as expected (about 1,000).
But the minister did not hide the fact that our country will have to adapt to phase 4 and would shortly be confirmed cases.
In the United Kingdom, the European country where there are already-infected man and a woman who arrived from Mexico on Tuesday and were hospitalized in Scotland, the health authorities have been supplied antivirals to treat more than 33 million people, equivalent to half the population, according to the agency Efe.
In Spain are defined along the criteria of today's administration of these drugs in the autonomous communities.
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