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    The patients' quantity is showy for this epoch of the year. Many need the supply of oxygen, from what the boys must remain in observation, occupying places destined for the recovery of surgeries. To prepare cases, they recommend to ventilate the ambiences and to take measures similar to those of the Flu A.

    From the Pediatric hospital ? Juan Pablo II ? they warned last week a showy growth in the patients' internment for this epoch of the year and as they tell, the majority of the cases owe to the Virus Sincicial Respiratorio (VSR). The quantity of cases is similar to the one that registers during the winter period, when the pictures abound gripales.
    To treat the patients with VSR, in many cases the supply of oxygen is necessary, from what they must remain internee, occupying beds destined for the recovery of surgeries. To avoid more cases, they recommend to the parents to support preventive measurements similar to that of the Influenza A (H1N1), as the hygiene and the ventilation of the ambiences. The warning for the growth of the quantity of respiratory cases was realized on Friday by the director of "Juan Pablo II", Alberto Braverman, who pointed out that many beds were occupied by this type of patients, which forced them to postpone some programmed surgeries. On this matter, the pediatrician specialist in infectolog?a that gets out of debt in the hospital, Andrea Gajo Gane, told to The Coast that the majority of the pictures that are attended are provoked by the Virus Sincicial Respiratorio. ? ? The increase in the patients is real, because we see having now the quantity of respiratory cases that are habitual newly in June or July and particularly what is turning out to be much is the respiratory sincicial that, depending on the characteristics of the patient, can be dangerous ?, told the specialist. The treatment of this type of pictures includes the supply of oxygen, from what many boys must remain internee. ? It is a pathology for the one that does not exist antiviral, so it is necessary to wait for the evolution with permanents nebulizaciones and with oxygen, that's why the patients remain internee and that saturates the services ?, it detailed Segment Win. To avoid these cases, the doctor recommended to the parents to take measures similar to those who spread during the epidemic of Influenza A (H1N1). ? It is necessary to support the drafty ambiences and the permanent hygiene of hands ?, he remembered. On the other hand, it called to vaccinating the boys against the flu. ? Particularly it is necessary to have special attention with the persons younger than 2 years because they need 2 doses, which are placed with 4 difference weeks ?, it pointed out.


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    Re: Argentina: for the virus sincicial respiratory, beds of the Pediatric hospital are saturated

    RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS - ARGENTINA: (CORRIENTES)

    The warning regarding the increase in number of respiratory cases
    came from the director of the Juan Pablo II hospital, Albert
    Braverman, on Friday [13 May 2011], who stated that some elective
    surgery had been postponed because so many beds had been occupied by
    these respiratory patients. In this regard, the pediatric infectious
    disease specialist, Andrea Gajo Gane, who works in the same hospital,
    told El Litoral that the problem had been created by the increased
    number of RSV infection patients. This increase is unexpected because
    such patients are normally admitted during the months of June or July
    [the peak of the southern hemisphere winter. - Mod.CP] when RSV
    infection is at its height.

    The treatment of such patients includes the supply of oxygen, such
    that many children must remain hospitalized. "RSV infection causes a
    disease for which there is no specific antiviral treatment, so it is
    necessary to administer nebulization [using vaporizers] and oxygen and
    bed blocking is an inevitable consequence", explained Gajo. To avoid
    this situation, he recommended that parents take measures similar to
    those adopted during the Influenza A (H1N1) epidemic. "You need to
    keep rooms ventilated and adopt hygienic hand-care," he said.

    --
    Communicated by:
    ProMED-mail
    <promed@promedmail.org>

    [RSV infection normally peaks in the middle of the northern and
    southern hemisphere winters. The current outbreak in Argentina is
    atypical in its early appearance. It will be interesting in due course
    to characterise the genotype of this 2011 virus.

    In 1999 natural isolates of RSV group B (HRSV-B) with a 60-nucleotide
    (nt) duplication in the G protein gene appeared in Buenos Aires,
    Argentina (A. Trento et al., J. Gen. Virol. 84:3115-3120, 2003).
    Subsequently, during the next 10 years, this virus, designated group
    BA, became disseminated world-wide and replaced the previously
    ubiquitous B-type virus (See: Ten years of global evolution of the
    human respiratory syncytial virus BA genotype with a 60-nucleotide
    duplication in the G protein gene. J Virol. 2010 Aug;84(15):7500-12)
    <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20504933>. It is still unclear
    how and why this virus genotype spread globally from Argentina.

    Characterisation of the virus associated with the current outbreak in
    Argentina may provide some clues. - Mod.CP

    The interactive HealthMap/ProMED map for Argentina is available at:
    <http://healthmap.org/r/008K> - CopyEd.EJP]

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