The Ministry of Health and Social Policy reported yesterday that the number of confirmed cases of swine flu in Spain has risen to 13 and already 101 persons suspected of having the disease. Of the thirteen confirmed cases, six are in Catalonia, two in Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid, and one in Valencia, Murcia and Basque Country.
The Valencia has become the gathering a larger number of cases studied, a total of 30, followed with 28 cases of Andalusia, Catalonia and Madrid with 15 to 11. With three suspected cases of swine flu suffering are Asturias and Castilla-La Mancha, two cases presented Castille and Leon, Extremadura, Galicia and Murcia. The Autonomous Communities that have accounted for only one suspected case are Aragon, the Canary Islands and Rioja.
The Executive also reported that regional governments have been called tomorrow by the Minister for Health and Social Policy, Trinidad Jimenez, a second extraordinary plenary session of the Inter National Health System (SNS), held four days after Monday.
Jimenez presented at the Council of Ministers the report on the status of the new flu ", which highlights the" speed "in decision making, transparency of information and coordination with the Autonomous Communities, the World Health (WHO) and the European Union.
Shortly before traveling to Luxembourg to meet with their European counterparts, Jimenez said in his report that since last Friday informed the WHO about the outbreak have been implemented measures in preparedness and response plan for an influenza pandemic, with the adjustments required by the current situation.
The minister, who appeared every day in the media, was on Wednesday in the Congress and met on Monday with President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, according to the report. This paper highlights being evaluated to establish a second level of strengthening health services in foreign airports in Madrid and Barcelona, where the protocols are enabled to follow the crews in case of detecting people with symptoms associated with the virus.
It has also reviewed the availability of antivirals and has been found to be sufficient for now, says the report. To follow the health crisis, the Ministry has constituted a Group of Analysis and Evaluation in Public Health and Epidemiology International to share all information and develop possible future scenarios in relation to the outbreak. The Ministry of Health and Social Policy has also studied the articulation of a network of reference laboratories to confirm cases of swine flu if the workload so required.
The Government's first vice president, Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, said yesterday that must be taken seriously the situation caused by the emergence of the swine flu but not with alarm. "We are acting with rigor and seriousness from the first moment," with "prevention measures and, with no" alarm ", De la Vega said at the press conference after the Council of Ministers.
The director of the Center for Biological Research of the CSIC in Madrid, Vicente Larraga, told Efe that the decision of WHO to raise the alert level for swine flu "is not cause for alarm" but was "something expected" by scientists. Within its current course, this expert said that would be expected to register new cases of infection in the coming days, and they were referring to the situation is controlled by a few months.
The Ministry of Health of Valencia canceled a scheduled meeting with 400 college and, instead, confirmed the distribution of a video with the recommendations of students who have traveled to Mexico to continue preventive measures before the onset of symptoms of swine flu.
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