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The peak of influenza A is in a month
A teaching union called for advance leave. Confirmed cases in the country are 1587, but not all cases are analyzed as they are suspects in other countries, would be many more. There are twelve children in boarding Guti?rrez.
With three new cases and when the fatal cases of influenza A H1N1 and exceeded 1500, an expert says that "we are in the top of the wave of the disease, because the peak is expected within four weeks." A teacher union in the province of Buenos Aires is called the winter ahead, "after the death of three teachers," and because "the majority of infections occur in schools." One of the deaths yesterday was the first located in Mar del Plata: A woman of 40 years, with prior illness. The total number of deaths reached 26. In addition, 99 new cases were confirmed, bringing the total in the country comes to 1587, but as in all countries where the epidemic spread, the cases are much more real. At Children's Hospital Ricardo Gutierrez twelve boys placed by influenza A. In Santa Fe, 143 schools closed, and closed for 14 days the faculties of medicine and law Rosario.
Hector Laplum?, head of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, found that "we are in the top of the wave of the disease, because the peak is expected within four weeks." The Ministry of Health of the Nation yesterday reported three cases of patients who died, a total of 26 due to influenza A H1N1. The total number of confirmed cases since April 26 reaches 1587. However, he clarified the health portfolio, since June 16, the ministry reported only laboratory-confirmed cases and not by clinical features, like other countries with sustained transmission (United States, Chile and others), what which implies that the cases are real. Of the samples tested at the Institute Malbr?n, 99 were positive and 44 negative.
Two new deaths occurred in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. The Left is The River Plate and is the first death from influenza A in that district: it is a woman of 40 years, who died in the Hospital General Acute Interzonal, where he was interned with severe pneumonia. According to the doctor, the patient suffered from hyperthyroidism and asthma. In that city there are 27 people suffering from influenza A. The Faculty of Law at the local university suspended classes until Monday at the emergence of a suspected case.
In Santa Fe, the faculties of Medicine and Law, National University of Rosario closed for 14 days before confirmed cases of influenza A. In this province are either partially or totally closed 143 schools, of which 105 are located in Rosario, of which 63 are fully closed and 42 partial, in classrooms where there were no confirmed cases.
In Rio Tercero, C?rdoba, two schools suspended classes as a preventive measure, for a suspected case of influenza A in a teacher.
Clearly the most pressing is recorded in the province of Buenos Aires. Alfredo Conde, secretary general of the Union of Teachers branch bonaerense Argentinos (UDA), called "the winter holiday, set for Monday, July 20, before the death of three teachers, was advanced to the July 6"; This foundation not only for the expected peak of infection but high absenteeism by teachers and pupils. " Miguel Diaz, general secretary of the Teachers Union of the Province of Buenos Aires (UDocBA), found that the level of absenteeism among students and teachers in the province reached 35 percent by the influenza epidemic is alarming. " Diaz called the Directorate General of Schools declare all teachers "at risk" because "the majority of infections occur in schools, observed that" 70 percent of teachers are women, where there are many pregnant women. "
In this context, IOMA, the state social work staff in the province of Buenos Aires, announced it extended the free anti-vaccination against seasonal influenza to all its members until July 15.
John Sylvestre B?gnis, president of the Health Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, suggested "the total suspension of classes in the provinces where the virus has not yet released (all but the city of Buenos Aires and the suburbs), while WHO indicated otherwise. Marcelo Blumenfeld, coordinator of emerging diseases of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, said that "in Mexico closed the schools, as well as all sorts of venues, not when the outbreak began, but when it was fired, to reduce its impact If it had served to prevent it, would not have had such an epidemic. "
Regarding the possibility of suspending classes and public performances, Blumenfeld noted that "we must consider whether the death is greatly increased, but this is not easy to establish because it ignores the number of total cases, only known to be far more confirmed by the laboratory. Until now, it would seem necessary to come to these measures, although the number of patients is high. "
The peak of influenza A is in a month
A teaching union called for advance leave. Confirmed cases in the country are 1587, but not all cases are analyzed as they are suspects in other countries, would be many more. There are twelve children in boarding Guti?rrez.
With three new cases and when the fatal cases of influenza A H1N1 and exceeded 1500, an expert says that "we are in the top of the wave of the disease, because the peak is expected within four weeks." A teacher union in the province of Buenos Aires is called the winter ahead, "after the death of three teachers," and because "the majority of infections occur in schools." One of the deaths yesterday was the first located in Mar del Plata: A woman of 40 years, with prior illness. The total number of deaths reached 26. In addition, 99 new cases were confirmed, bringing the total in the country comes to 1587, but as in all countries where the epidemic spread, the cases are much more real. At Children's Hospital Ricardo Gutierrez twelve boys placed by influenza A. In Santa Fe, 143 schools closed, and closed for 14 days the faculties of medicine and law Rosario.
Hector Laplum?, head of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, found that "we are in the top of the wave of the disease, because the peak is expected within four weeks." The Ministry of Health of the Nation yesterday reported three cases of patients who died, a total of 26 due to influenza A H1N1. The total number of confirmed cases since April 26 reaches 1587. However, he clarified the health portfolio, since June 16, the ministry reported only laboratory-confirmed cases and not by clinical features, like other countries with sustained transmission (United States, Chile and others), what which implies that the cases are real. Of the samples tested at the Institute Malbr?n, 99 were positive and 44 negative.
Two new deaths occurred in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. The Left is The River Plate and is the first death from influenza A in that district: it is a woman of 40 years, who died in the Hospital General Acute Interzonal, where he was interned with severe pneumonia. According to the doctor, the patient suffered from hyperthyroidism and asthma. In that city there are 27 people suffering from influenza A. The Faculty of Law at the local university suspended classes until Monday at the emergence of a suspected case.
In Santa Fe, the faculties of Medicine and Law, National University of Rosario closed for 14 days before confirmed cases of influenza A. In this province are either partially or totally closed 143 schools, of which 105 are located in Rosario, of which 63 are fully closed and 42 partial, in classrooms where there were no confirmed cases.
In Rio Tercero, C?rdoba, two schools suspended classes as a preventive measure, for a suspected case of influenza A in a teacher.
Clearly the most pressing is recorded in the province of Buenos Aires. Alfredo Conde, secretary general of the Union of Teachers branch bonaerense Argentinos (UDA), called "the winter holiday, set for Monday, July 20, before the death of three teachers, was advanced to the July 6"; This foundation not only for the expected peak of infection but high absenteeism by teachers and pupils. " Miguel Diaz, general secretary of the Teachers Union of the Province of Buenos Aires (UDocBA), found that the level of absenteeism among students and teachers in the province reached 35 percent by the influenza epidemic is alarming. " Diaz called the Directorate General of Schools declare all teachers "at risk" because "the majority of infections occur in schools, observed that" 70 percent of teachers are women, where there are many pregnant women. "
In this context, IOMA, the state social work staff in the province of Buenos Aires, announced it extended the free anti-vaccination against seasonal influenza to all its members until July 15.
John Sylvestre B?gnis, president of the Health Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, suggested "the total suspension of classes in the provinces where the virus has not yet released (all but the city of Buenos Aires and the suburbs), while WHO indicated otherwise. Marcelo Blumenfeld, coordinator of emerging diseases of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, said that "in Mexico closed the schools, as well as all sorts of venues, not when the outbreak began, but when it was fired, to reduce its impact If it had served to prevent it, would not have had such an epidemic. "
Regarding the possibility of suspending classes and public performances, Blumenfeld noted that "we must consider whether the death is greatly increased, but this is not easy to establish because it ignores the number of total cases, only known to be far more confirmed by the laboratory. Until now, it would seem necessary to come to these measures, although the number of patients is high. "