Tracking cases of influenza A in Bolivia

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Eight month old baby, first infected with influenza A/H1N1
August 3, 2010, 5:53

La Paz - Bolivia .- An eight-month baby contracted the H1N1 flu virus, who is now isolated in the Children's Hospital, said the hospital's emergency room chief, Alfredo Mendoza. This is the first case presented in an infant.



Last Friday would have been admitted to Children's Hospital Emergency, two infants with suspected symptoms of influenza, one of them has 1 year and 3 months old, his analysis was sent to laboratories and is expected within the next days to confirm the result or discard the presence of virus in your body.



The other case concerns a much smaller child, a baby is eight months old, which has epidemiological record confirmed as positive case and becomes the first baby infected with the virus.



Also, both patients admitted infants while they would have been transferred from another health center in the city of La Paz, which would not have taken preventive measures to protect the respective co-infected baby's room, in this case older child was at risk from being infected with influenza A.



In this regard, decided to intern both at Children's Hospital, where they remain isolated and pneumonia in health that the disease is complicated by disease, why would have been hospitalized and placed under medical care.



However, according to the head of the emergency facility, Alfredo Mendoza, both present and favorable clinical evolution, they need intensive care, although the results still expect the child of one year and three months.



Influenza A pneumonia complicated



Also, Mendoza told El Diario that the H1N1 influenza may be complicated by pneumonia, the same that is usually caused in some cases by the same virus and in others on the infecting agent, which leads to the disease of pneumonia.



Symptoms



In that sense, the disease of pneumonia as well as being a hassle for the influenza A virus is equally risky for the population and its main symptoms: fever, cough, shortness of breath, general malaise and lack sensation of air.



Mendoza recommended to the population in case you feel the symptoms, go immediately to a health center for immediate treatment.
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Two new cases of the flu AH1N1 register, Oruro has the first one


La Paz - Bolivia. - According to the departmental services of Health (Head offices), yesterday two more cases of flu registered AH1N1, one in Cochabamba and other in Oruro. The boss of the Unit of Epidemiolog?a of the Head offices of Cochabamba, Efra?n Vallejos, brought yesterday the quarter infected with the virus AH1N1. ? It is a question of a mother who was infected by his daughter who endures this evil from the last week. She is 32 years old, both receive the treatment in the Hospital Viedma ?. In Oruro, the Unit of Epidemiolog?a of the Head offices also confirmed the first positive case of the pandemic. It is a question of a 20-year-old man who is being checked meticulously. Already 68 infected ones are counted by this two in the country, in addition to 54 in the department of La Paz, six in Santa Cruz, two in Beni and one in Tarija.

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H1N1 flu cases have doubled in a week
August 7, 2010, 5:50

La Paz - Bolivia .- The H1N1 flu cases increase dramatically accelerated doubling in just one week. Until seven days, authorities reported 54 confirmed cases and, at the time, patients in this category account for 115, according to the positive epidemiological records, including the last detected in the city of Cochabamba, according to the department head of the Headquarters, Ephraim Vallejos .



After epidemiological authorities confirmed the outbreak of H1N1 flu in the country, the figures rise as reflected by the different health centers that receive a continuous basis to people infected with this virus.



Until the previous Friday 30 July, 54 were recorded positive epidemic records of this disease, to spend only a week and double the figures are 115 confirmed cases across the country, with the last transmission in the city of Cochabamba 1198 suspected cases nationwide.



The Chief Epidemiologist of the Departmental Service of Health (Headquarters) in Cochabamba, Ephraim Vallejos, the seventh confirmed case of influenza A/H1N1 in this department, it would be a nine-year-old who attends school in the center Urban same city.



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Vallejos expressed concern about the resurgence of the disease, confirming the high risk for the population mean, given that international health agencies declared it a global pandemic.



"Everyone at the Headquarters in charge of monitoring the disease was declared in emergency and general alert. The girl is recovering at home in intensive care with his family and schoolmates, to prevent contagion or more cases, "said Vallejos.



In the last two weeks, the venues identified seven cases of influenza A, not only in the capital, but Quillacollo Sacaba Colcapirhua and turn clarified that all patients are under control and in the throes of recovery.



However, despite being reactivated prevention devices and filters throughout the country, cases are increasing and alarming the public, especially those who have underlying diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer ailments, among others.



For its part, the authorities of Epidemiology and do not provide information about the rapid increase of influenza A/H1N1, was taken as not to alarm the population and determination of the World Health Organization (WHO), said the head of Locations La Paz, Rene Barrientos.
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Virus A (H1N1) continues beating Bolivia
Saturday, August 7, 2010

August 7, 2010, 7:59 La Paz, Aug 7 (Prensa Latina) The influenza A (H1N1) is still beating strongly Bolivia in recent days, and until today the country has recorded 115 cases confirmed, more than double what reported a week ago. Of the 54 patients reported a week ago, the figure jumped to 115 and 1098 suspects nationwide, although health authorities make it clear that all patients are under control and in the process of recovery.

However, despite being reactivated prevention devices and filters throughout the country, the situation put on alert to citizens, especially those who have underlying diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer ailments, among others.

The upturn in for almost month in La Paz now joined a resurgence in Cochabamba (center), where six cases were detected this month.

Health Minister Nila Heredia said processed with Brazil and Venezuela a loan of 400 000 vaccinations to expand the immunization campaign, after exhausting a reserve of 1.3 million doses that had the country. Health authorities have reiterated in recent days that the Andean nation is better prepared to face a second wave of the epidemic, which so far have not had any deaths.

By contrast, last year there were over two thousand five hundred confirmed cases and 59 deaths.

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The seventh case of Flu To cause fear in the whole population


The cases of Flu TO H1N1 registered in the country, they continue in ascent. The departmental authorities worry about the seventh case of Flu To, registered yesterday in the department of Santa Cruz.
The population after the record of the seventh case of Flu in the municipality cruce?o, has started taking precautions opposite to the already mentioned illness.
In the department cruce?o for four months the cases of Flu have registering To. Initiating August it has registered in new case of the above mentioned illness.
The Director of the Head offices, Erwin Saucedo, informed that the person who has picked up the virus in the last hours, is a 38-year-old woman who fortunately is out of danger.
It pointed out that his state of the lady was not serious, but that nevertheless it preferred and did the correct thing on having come to a center of health to receive attention and not this way automedicarse.
It mentioned that the patient entered with a stable health, although with high fever. Already in these moments the lady who acquired the illness is calm and without threat of danger in his health, so much it is so the patient is in his hearth calmly.

He emphasized that the person who picked up the virus, did not have need to receive the treatment of the tamifl?, which he wants to say that it did not have any symptom of threat, thanks to the immediate attention of the specialists.
Regarding his environment of stated one, it indicated that there has done the corresponding blockade of the whole zone in which she was living and with the persons that she was surrounding herself.
? The patient is completely out of danger, there are no major motives for worrying, the Head offices it has taken the corresponding measures to prevent the illness from alarming the population ? it expressed Osier-bed.

THEY WILL INCREASE THE CONTROL PANEL Likewise it asked the population cruce?a to take in account the increases of positive cases of Flu To, since they do not stop alarming of certain way the population.
It mentioned that the adapted to avoid the filters, part from the hearth. The parents must teach his children with the example of yes same and greatly more for the minors of the house, to teach the infantes to wash their hands all the time.
As the second essential point exhibited that if there is risk that some of his children obtains the illness, to go to the center of health more nearby to be attended and that they do not choose for the decision of automedicarse.

? We are going to begin with the control panel in different points of the city need that the population takes conscience of the fact and should apply in his living through the advices that the specialists give to them ? the person in charge of departmental health showed.
Despite the increase of cases of Flu To, he emphasized that to comparison of last year, the registered quantity is minimal, in what it goes of the year.

DOSE COMES FOR THE MITIGATION On the other hand he made sure that in the next days they will come to the department of Santa Cruz, hundred thousand extra doses of vaccine against the Flu To, that it was asked to the Department of Health.

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Oruro registers 38 positive cases of flu A-H1N1 up to the date


The Director of the Departmental Service of Health, Roberto Amusquivar affirmed yesterday the record of 38 positive cases of the influenza A-H1N1 brought the National Institute of Laboratories of Health of La Paz. ? Up to the date, in accordance with the report of the unit of epidemiolog?a of our institution we have brought 38 cases of the flu A-H1N1 in our department. Last week we had 26 cases registered until Friday and during the weekend up to today (yesterday), the positive cases are 12 doing a whole of 38 in the department ?, told Amusquivar. The Person in charge of Alertness of the Unit of Epidemiolog?a of the Head offices, Waldo Rozo Branch indicated that in the department 111 possible cases of the influenza have been studied giving positives to the date 38 cases, included that of the deceased young man, ? the majority regrettably has appeared in our city, now we continue with the work of prevention, it is necessary to point out that also we have suspicious cases in the rural area and in Huanuni who are studied by laboratory ? .A Authorities of health, of education and family parents have being employed at the control and preventive measurements related to three implemented filters the present management,
the first "familiar" filter must be controlled for the family parents if the child presents a respiratory illness or with the symptoms of influenza, the dads must prevent from going to the school, the second "school" filter that it must be supervised for the directors and teachers to the revenue to the educational units to avoid the students' revenue with some symptom of the flu A-H1N1 and the third filter ? in the classroom ? before the possibility that the child falls ill in the school will have to be identified for the teacher who must proceed to isolate it of other students and summon his parents. It is recommended to bear in mind the wash of hands, the use of alcohol in gel and not to be present at heaped places of persons to avoid the contagion, the director of the Head offices specified.

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Oruro registers 41 positive cases of flu A-H1N1

Authorities of the Head offices confirm that more cases of flu A-H1N1 in Oruro Yesterday authorities of health in press conference confirmed three new cases of the flu A-H1N1 in the department registering to the date 41 positive cases in the present management. The person in charge of the Unit of Epidemiolog?a of the Departmental Service of Health, Herlinda Huayta said that ? of 118 cases studied by laboratory there have been brought 41 positive cases of the flu A-H1N1, fortunately the majority of the confirmed cases are receiving the respective treatment and his rehabilitation is favorable and complications are not demonstrated seeing that this virulence to diminished in Oruro ? .Los new positive cases are stable and with improvement realizing the corresponding monitoring who have received the prophylactic and preventive treatment and again the treatment has being realized with the "tamifl?" every twelve hours, indicated Huayta. Other brought cases have finished with his treatment and they are recovered being unrolled in his normal activities.
The Person in charge of Alertness, Waldo Rozo Branch said ? we have to go so far as to coexist with this new virus in the monitorings realized in different hearths for example the biggest brother gives positive and the negative minor and this way successively, with these scientific bases we indicate to the population that the fear of this virus must not already exist since we are provided with the treatment and the vaccine ? .De I match to statistical corresponding information from the past management not all the persons are capable to contracting the illness, first the parameters must happen so that a person contracts the evil. Of 50 thousand doses that the Extended Program of Immunization requested to the Department of Health for Oruro they got ready only of 20 thousand doses of vaccination against the flu A-H1N1 that will be applied to major of six months of age. IRAsEn the epidemiologic week 34 the cases of respiratory sharp infections Anger has increased 5.857 existing 726 new cases. ? Realizing the monitoring in the different centers of health we have demonstrated the gradual increase during these weeks of the respiratory sharp infections in the department, now the groups are compromised etareos from 21 to 59 years, but also it affects our student group ?, told the person in charge of the Unit of Epidemiolog?a of the Head offices.

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Two confirmed cases of influenza A at City Hall
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City officials work with surgical masks. - Carlos Lopez Gamboa Times

After the alarm generated two days ago that supposedly five officials of the Department of Planning of the Municipality of Cochabamba would have been infected with influenza A, the Department of Epidemiology of the Departmental Service of Health (Headquarters) yesterday confirmed the presence of H1N1 in only two officials and ruled out other suspects.



However, despite the isolation of confirmed, officials of all departments in the city attending to work with chinstrap posts.



The head of epidemiology at the Headquarters, Efrain Vallejo, said that each day the number of suspects in the Llajta increases due to increased respiratory infections (ARI) caused by environmental pollution because of the recent fires in the park chaqueo Tunari and in the provinces and other departments.



In August the wrath amounted to seven thousand cases. The infection has increased and is often mistaken for influenza A, is the type B influenza, according to medical explanation, even sicker cause instability due to the current climate. In the case of H1N1 in Cochabamba, has officially registered 61 confirmed cases and 300 suspects.



However, the chief of epidemiology asked the public not to be alarmed by these figures and take the necessary precautions as if it were any other flu. Of these, one must remember that people do not sneeze in public and in doing so to cover their mouths with the forearm and not with the palms of the hand. First, the population should increase consumption of water and natural juices, and dress in a manner consistent with changes in temperature. On the other hand, the reference laboratory of the venues performed 4-5 trials to date, only the most critical cases for the cost of reagents.

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Oruro: 3 new cases

"According to the lab report (Thursday) 3 new cases were confirmed positive for influenza A-H1N1 currently adding 44 in our department, we are waiting for other samples on this disease," said the unit responsible for Epidemiology of the Departmental Service of Health, Herlinda Huayta.A departmental level have been taken to date 128 samples, of which 44 were positive, 74 have tested negative and is awaiting confirmation from other five cases are currently under study in City INLASA The Paz.El report last Wednesday given by the health institution, resulted in 41 positive cases in Oruro, the day Thursday three new cases were confirmed positive, accounting for 44 currently tested in the department. " We continue to epidemiological surveillance at the departmental level, we also continue to work in health centers and educational units, we asked people if they feel any symptoms of the virus in their health, to attend immediately to the nearest health center for care and avoid self-medication that impairs the recovery and timely patient care, "the responsible Sedes.Se Epidemiology reported two people infected by the virus A-H1N1, were given a medical discharge from Hospital San Juan de Dios ayer.La day health authority said that 50 000 doses of flu vaccine sent by the Ministry of Health and Sports last week are distributed to referral centers and health, to combat this disease.

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59 positive cases of Flu A-H1N1 in the city


The person in charge of the Unit of Epidemiolog?a of the Departmental Service of Health, Herlinda Huayta confirmed to THE HOMELAND the record of 59 positive cases of the flu A-H1N1 to the date, corresponding to the urban area. The positive cases of the flu A-H1N1 registered correspond to the city where they presented the majority to themselves in the north zone. In accordance with the report of health in the rural area positive cases have not registered up to the moment. ? They are 147 clinical cases studied in the laboratory of Inlasa of La Paz, of which they confirm to us up to the date 59 positive cases of the influenza A-H1N1 and the rest of the studied cases are a normal influenza (it cooled commonly) having 70 %, we evaluate the situation and see that the majority of the cases have answered to the treatment and are in recovery ?, he told Huayta. Of the last positive cases they meet home treatment and five are interned in the hospital general San Juan of God, with treatment of pre discharge. The influenza A-H1N1 is detected by us by means of tests of laboratory and treatment that are realized in the centers of health and hospitals of reference, ? for instructions of the Department of Health and Sports now we realize the treatment as a seasonal influenza,
since the patients recover his state, but with a lot of care in patients who have some chronic illness, diabetes, hypertension, asthma, minor children and adults older than 60 years ? it indicated the authority of health. The Departmental Service of Health suggested to the educational authorities of the department, to recapture the school schedule from next week for to be demonstrated the decrease of the respiratory sharp infections with a more benign climate.

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Pregnant woman dies of H1N1
LA PAZ - A Bolivian woman of 24 who was 15 weeks pregnant, died Friday due to the H1N1 flu in the City of Oruro (southeast), according to the Departmental Service of Health (Headquarters) of that city.
by AFP


" She was 24 and was diagnosed with typical pneumonia, the flu, H1N1, a disease that apparently had obtained seven days ago. She was with a pregnancy of 15 weeks, "he told local media, Arminda Huayta, head of the Epidemiology Unit Headquarters in Oruro.

The woman was hospitalized last week in the General Hospital of Oruro, where he died, he said Huayta.

Bolivia reported so far in 2010 a total of 31 confirmed cases of H1N1, including 22 in the department of La Paz.

Between May 2009, date on which appeared the first case of H1N1 flu in Bolivia, until December of that year were registered in the country more than two thousand cases and 60 deaths due to wrong.
September 11, 2010 12:32

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Oruro recorded 60 positive cases of 156 A-H1N1 clinical cases seen to date
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - Oruro - Regional
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Venues Authority confirms progress of influenza A-H1N1
In the department of Oruro of 156 clinical cases treated against influenza A-H1N1 this demarche by the Departmental Health Service (Headquarters), 60 have been confirmed by laboratory INLASA of La Paz as positive cases, seven are in the process of confirmation and 89 are considered common cold.

The head of the Epidemiology Unit of the Headquarters, said that "according to the data we handle most cases of H1N1 influenza A management-2010 have been recorded in the north of the city and some in the central zone, a fact which should be taken into account by the population and health personnel for prevention, according to the records we have in rural areas still have not registered any cases of this disease. "

The second campaign of vaccination against influenza A-H1N1 began in August, the department ended Sept. 16, health centers and referral hospitals are eligible for immunization of persons who have not been vaccinated against this virus.

Positive cases should be clarified that only 4 are admitted to the Hospital General San Juan de Dios with specific treatment, the rest are restored, "said Huayta.

The health authority said the patient died last week, was not vaccinated "people recommend pregnant again and people who have some commitment to their immunity status, and fall between the extremes of age (children and elderly) and some who have some underlying condition, go to the reference centers for vaccination.

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Bolivia reports 25 deaths from A/H1N1 flu in 2010

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LA PAZ, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- About 25 people have died of A/H1N1 influenza in Bolivia so far in 2010 while the number of reported cases continues to decline each week, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.

Because a low number of cases -- 1,447 -- have been reported this year, the flu was expected to disappear in Bolivia by November, said Rene Barrientos, epidemiology director of the La Paz health department.

From May to December of 2009, 2,352 flu cases with 59 deaths were reported in the departments of La Paz, Santa Cruz, Potosi, Oruro, Chuquisaca and Tarija.

The ministry also said the city of El Alto had the highest mortality rate with five deaths.

The A/H1N1 flu in Bolivia is now a seasonal illness directly related to the cold seasons, said Rene Lennis, epidemiology director of the Health Ministry.

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Epidemiology 500 confirmed positive cases of influenza A/H1N1
September 22, 2010, 6:33

La Paz - Bolivia .- The national chief of Epidemiology, Ren? Lenis, said yesterday 500 chips epidemiological positive for influenza A/H1N1 in the country, undertaken in recent weeks. The department of La Paz is the most affected with the highest number of positive cases and deaths presented.



Influenza A quietly moving, because from January to September of the current administration, there were over a thousand suspected cases, but still not exceed the figures of 2009, when people did not know in depth the risks and implications of this disease, then determined as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO)



In that sense, Lenis said in recent weeks, 500 cases were confirmed positive to the list of the disease, the total since the beginning of the year, had 13 deaths. Of that total, one for the department of Santa Cruz, two to Cochabamba, Oruro and two to eight in the department of La Paz, taking into account that are five cases to the city of El Alto.



Within this framework, the department more vulnerable to infection with influenza A/H1N1 is La Paz, accordingly recommended that people Lenis La Paz implement contingency measures in the use of alcohol gel, handwashing and avoiding go to crowded places.



"The recommendation is especially for people with chronic basis, who are more likely to worsen the clinical picture, we ask them to attend promptly to a health center to prevent fatal outcomes," said National Chief of Epidemiology.



Also, Lenis recalled that the country still have more than 50,000 vaccinations for the general population are immunized against influenza A/H1N1.
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Oruro registered 4 new positive cases of influenza A-H1N1

During the present week, the Departmental Service of Health confirmed four new cases of the flu A-H1N1, adding 72 the confirmed cases the present management, attended in the General hospital ? Saint John of God ? .Los four cases confirmed by laboratory of National Institute of Laboratories of Health (Inlasa), of the city of La Paz, they meet specific treatment and they are attended by professionals of health. The majority of the positive cases of this illness at departmental level register in the ages from 21 years to 50, in accordance with the report of the Departmental Service of Health. At present a person is interned in the Working Hospital, two persons interned in the General Hospital ? Saint John of God ? and the fourth one meets specific treatment. There for is waited the result of two possible cases of the flu A-H1N1, derivatives for his analysis to Inlasa of La Paz, this week. The majority of the positive cases registered in the north zone and the central zone of our city, up to the date in the rural area there is no case of this illness. The immunization against this illness develops only in the city in 13 centers of health and hospitals of reference, where the personnel of health realizes the vaccination of free form.

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