miércoles, 29 de abril de 2009

Another case of swine flu forced to medicate to 208 people in Valencia

The government estimates that 32 suspected patients in Spain and the Minister of Health indicates that there are 14 studio in Valencia

Masks with a mariachi plays guitar in a square in Mexico City

A total of 208 people who had contact with a couple of 24 years admitted to La Fe affected by the swine flu have already received prophylactic treatment, as noted by the Ministry of Health. The couple confirmed yesterday by the Ministry of Health as the second case in Spain, together with that of Almansa, peers in the same trip to Mexico, is in "perfect health" and "no symptoms". The student of Business at the University of Valencia was discharged on Monday night but returned after only an hour to be admitted because "it was confirmed that there was a positive test, as had happened in the case of Almansa," explained Yesterday the Minister of Health, Manuel Cervera.
The minister, who participated yesterday with the president of the Generalitat, Francisco Camps, at a meeting of the technical committee of the Department, explained that the patient is of Valencia "asymptomatic" and "If you follow the steps of Almansa concerned with the traveled, will be discharged in the coming hours. "
Cervera, who said that the new test sequencing done in Majadahonda "is final", explained that both the couple and their contacts are still the treatment they had been recommended "for some days" and said "still in hospital for security and monitoring. " The 208 people in treatment have been in direct contact with the affected, who returned last Wednesday's trip to the Riviera Maya race.
According Cervera has commented, "In the last days in the Community have studied 150 cases of which only came out a positive" and said late yesterday that another 14 are under evaluation, 13 of them in faith and in a San Juan, "but none of them is still suspicion as yet unknown outcome of the tests."
As students Valencians, 29 fellow students joined Murcia after returning from Mexico are in a sort of "quarantine" in their homes until the analysis is definitive.
Moreover, the College of Pharmacists of Alicante has detected no increase in the demand for masks or antivirals.
The Ministry of Health confirmed two cases of Almansa, Valencia, and noted that there are another 32 under study, being Madrid, with 11 of them, the more suspicious of the A/H1N1 virus.
The situation of the affected passengers who had recently been in Mexico, is not serious and it is stable, because they are responding well to treatment, Health said yesterday in a statement updating the numbers of cases by regions. After Madrid, Catalonia holds ten patients studied, with two people in research are Andalusia and Murcia, while Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha, Galicia, Basque Country, Castilla y Leon and La Rioja have been one suspected case each, Like Extremadura, which until now had no one.
The chairman of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, yesterday launched a message of "peace" and "confidence" to the detected cases, because the country, he said, has the scientific and therapeutic requirements, and response to therapy is positive .
The Minister for Health and Consumer Affairs, Trinidad Jimenez, the Senate emphasized the speed and effectiveness of measures taken to control the situation created due to the occurrence of swine flu in Spain, said that the situation was "under control".

Spread of disease
For its part, the Mexican authorities yesterday found a drop in infections by swine influenza and virus-associated deaths, which were already 152 confirmed cases as the disease spread in a timely manner by the world, provided from passengers who were in Mexico. The A/H1N1 virus, which mainly affects people in the federal capital of Mexico, causing a dozen new patients reported Tuesday in seven countries: USA, Canada, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom, Israel and Costa Rica.
The deputy director general of the WHO office, Keiji Fukuda, said that the development of a swine flu pandemic is inevitable but found that countries "should be prepared for it. He explained that WHO focuses its attention on the needs of developing countries, as history has shown that often the hardest hit, recalling that the "Spanish flu of 1918 that left millions dead, also began a smooth. Confirmed cases amounted to 79 worldwide.

A teenager from 17 years in the Hospital de San Juan

A teenager from Alicante is 17 years since yesterday morning at the Hospital for observation before the San Juan might have suspected that swine flu. The youth, who went to hospital on their own initiative and without any company, said he returned from a trip to Mexico nine days ago and came to the center by bus, according to the staff.
The boy had a fever of 37.5 degrees and breathing difficulties, health sources indicated, but the first analysis performed at the Hospital of San Juan have been negative for swine influenza, but was kept in hospital until they confirm the results with Study in Valencia and Madrid. This was the fourth patient who had come to the Hospital of St. John, in reference to the province to deal with cases, since last Sunday. Pending the final results of the latter, the former have been discarded.

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