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  • Puerto Rico: the cases of the virus AH1N1 grow up in the island

    The number of cases of the Influenza TO H1N1 increased in the last May, after 4 positives were brought to the virus, to take the number to 311, he informed today the Department of Health.


    The undersecretary of the Department of Health, Concepción Quiñones de Longo, mentioned " that although we have seen a dramatic reduction in relation to this virus, since we can still see we have presence of the virus in the community ". " The best tool to fight this virus keeps on being the vaccination and I exhort those that have not received the vaccine to decide already and not to give him the back to his health ", it showed Pieces of land of Longo.


    On the other hand, the official said that in the week 19, from May 7 until May 13, 173 cases of dengue were brought. Pieces of land of Longo it indicated that " these cases are supported over the epidemic threshold. As for the cases of dengue hemorrágico, we have 19 to this date. Of the same way additional deaths have not been brought at 2 a.m. notified in what goes of 2010 ". " We have to detain this virus for which it performs supreme importance to take action as soon as possible.
    It is for this that we want to emphasize the such preventive measurements as removal of the breeding grounds of mosquitoes, the use of repellent, the fumigation inside the hearths and the residual fumigation. The last one wants to say that it is necessary to fumigate with insecticide the receptacles that can serve as promote breeding grounds, to prevent the mosquito from using them again ", showed the Undersecretary of the Department of Health. Pieces of land of Longo it expressed that they have detected that the citizens neglect his courts and surroundings, on having left packings of water accumulated many days, which allows the growth of larvas in these packings and do not realize until the mosquito has already developed. He exhorted the citizens to cooperate in his communities with the task of removing the breeding grounds of mosquitoes since it has been verified it is the most effective way of eliminating to the mosquito that transmits the dengue.

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