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UPDATE 1-Bolivia 2 confirms first H1N1 flu victims
10 Jul 2009 19:16
LA PAZ, July 10 (Reuters) - Bolivia on Friday confirmed the first two deaths affected by the influenza A H1N1, which has infected nearly 600 people in the country, said a health official.
The victims, a girl of six years and a man of 59 years, were hospitalized in the eastern city of Santa Cruz died last week due to a pattern of influenza, which was compounded by other diseases based, said the director of Departmental Service of Health (SEDES) from Santa Cruz, Erwin Saucedo.
"Both cases have died as a result of influenza virus A H1N1," Saucedo said in a press conference.
"The similarity of the two (cases) were (...) is both very serious diseases base on which the development of the virus in their greater lethality that resulted in the death," said Saucedo.
The small cerebral palsy and was a man of 59 years suffering from heart, he said.
While Bolivia was one of the last countries in the region confirmed infected by the new strain of the virus in recent days confirmed cases grew at a rate of 50 a day and arrived at eight of the nine departments.
The eastern department of Santa Cruz is the most affected with 374 cases. It remains the seat of government of La Paz with 82 infected. In Pando, north of the country, has not yet confirmed infections.
The H1N1 virus, a mixture of strains of swine flu, avian and human, emerged in April in Mexico and has spread globally. Has killed at least 437 people and infected more than 95,000 worldwide, according to World Health Organization (WHO).
(Reporting by Diego Ore, Edited by Javier Leira)
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Google translation:
UPDATE 1-Bolivia 2 confirms first H1N1 flu victims
10 Jul 2009 19:16
LA PAZ, July 10 (Reuters) - Bolivia on Friday confirmed the first two deaths affected by the influenza A H1N1, which has infected nearly 600 people in the country, said a health official.
The victims, a girl of six years and a man of 59 years, were hospitalized in the eastern city of Santa Cruz died last week due to a pattern of influenza, which was compounded by other diseases based, said the director of Departmental Service of Health (SEDES) from Santa Cruz, Erwin Saucedo.
"Both cases have died as a result of influenza virus A H1N1," Saucedo said in a press conference.
"The similarity of the two (cases) were (...) is both very serious diseases base on which the development of the virus in their greater lethality that resulted in the death," said Saucedo.
The small cerebral palsy and was a man of 59 years suffering from heart, he said.
While Bolivia was one of the last countries in the region confirmed infected by the new strain of the virus in recent days confirmed cases grew at a rate of 50 a day and arrived at eight of the nine departments.
The eastern department of Santa Cruz is the most affected with 374 cases. It remains the seat of government of La Paz with 82 infected. In Pando, north of the country, has not yet confirmed infections.
The H1N1 virus, a mixture of strains of swine flu, avian and human, emerged in April in Mexico and has spread globally. Has killed at least 437 people and infected more than 95,000 worldwide, according to World Health Organization (WHO).
(Reporting by Diego Ore, Edited by Javier Leira)
REUTERS OJ JL /
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