Brazil - Outbreak of swine flu is identified in Pedra Branca

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Eleven adolescents, pupils of the Agricultural College from White Stone, were diagnosed by the flu H1N1 (pig flu). In accordance with the General office of the Health of the State (Sesa), the outbreak of the disease would be concentrated in the agricultural school. In the place, material was collected for examination in 91 persons who were notified by suspicion of the illness. However, examinations carried out in the Central Laboratory of Public Health (Lacen), it confirmed only 11 cases. The patients confirmed with the illness are being accompanied and monitored by the vigilance epidemiol?gicas of the state Health and of the General office of Municipal Health from White Stone. Authorities of health of the local authority communicated that the suspicion is of that the transmission will have taken place through a person of the city who had contact with a patient infected by the virus in Sao Paulo. The General office of the Health of the State informs that it already released the medication indicated for the treatment of the patients from White Stone.
Professionals of health of the city and the population were orientated so that they are you alert for the symptoms of the flu H1N1. The symptoms of the pig flu are a fever, confusion or lack of attention, dizzinesses, nasal secretion, pain in the chest or stomach and respiratory difficulty. Of agreement

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The number of cases of flu A in the Cear? increases

It raised for 13 the number of confirmed cases of the flu A in Pedra Branca, in the Cear?, second confirmed in this Monday, 28, the State General office of Health. The suspicion is of that the transmission will have taken place through a person of the city who had contact with a patient infected by the virus in Sao Paulo.

Besides 13 cases of influenza pand?mica (H1N1) confirmed, another two cases were discarded and three samples will be re-prosecuted, between the 18 analysed ones. Altogether, according to the general office, 286 cases were notified.

In accordance with the general office, they were attended in the emergency hospital of the Municipal Hospital from pedra Branca, between the days 18 and 23 of this month, 51 students of School of Professional Teaching of the local authority and a teacher, besides 20 persons who do not make part of the school group, but who were contacts of the ill adolescents.

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Ministry of Health sends a representative to monitor swine flu outbreak in CE
November 28, 2011
The Secretary of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Jarbas Barbosa, Ceara visit the next day to monitor the H1N1 outbreak recorded in the municipality of Pedra Branca, the Wilderness Center, where 11 cases were confirmed by the Health Department on Friday, Monday (25).
In an interview with General Alert on Monday (28), the Secretary of Health Arruda Bastos said that still must be set a specific campaign to immunize the region for the groups who were not vaccinated in the last work of the Ministry of Health
"Much of the population is immunized because the vaccine this year already included H1N1 vaccine in 2010 and was made specifically for the virus. Is what prompted the people who were not vaccinated are monitored more closely," Bastos said Arruda.
"Anyone who has flu symptoms, do not go to school, work, clean with alcohol gel objects that were touched, enhance nutrition, and that you have symptoms seek health posts," the secretary warned.
The secretary also said Bastos Arruda this morning will bring together the entire team at the State Department of Health to present the results achieved since the last week in White Stone.

 

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Notifications of flu A grow 150 % in 24 hours

And residents' new notifications do not stop appearing with symptoms of the flu A, when local authority of the Central Backwoods that is to 261 kilometers of Fortress was known as a pig flu, in the city from White Stone. In less than 24 hours, the numbers of patients with possibility to be with the virus H1N1 raised 150 %, passing of 284 for the current 428 notifications. At present, 13 persons had the confirmation of the disease, but the perspective of the General office of Health of the Cear? (Sesa) is that the numbers will be still able to grow more. The preoccupation is so great that the holder of the briefcase, Roe Aces of clubs, announced the liberation of R$ 100 thousand reals for support in the works of prevention. To try to avoid that the flu A is still scattered more, exceed frontiers and if it makes a new epidemic, three doctors of the Sesa and the technique of the Ministry of Health, Libya Souza, they were, yesterday, in White Stone to see the real situation in the local authority, besides checking the structure of the city, which, today, does not dispose with even of the only Unity of Intensive Therapy (ICU).

In order that the gravity of the situation was measured in White Stone, the whole Country, according to the Ministry of Health, it wrote 133 notifications up up to October of 2011, while, in less than one week, the local authority added 428 cases up, more than three times the total of Brazil. The secretary of health from White Stone, T?nia Parente, affirms what the biggest preoccupation would be the presence, I second it, of persons of group of risk - childish, old, obese, hypertense and pregnant - between the listing of the notified ones. " Be, yes, persons with more vulnerable profiles, but none presents serious case ", it declares the public municipal gestora. Another worrying scenery is the size of the teams who work 24 hours daily analysing the clinical pictures. They are 14 doctors alternating in the service to the patients in the Municipal Hospital Saint Sebastian and in the health centers.
" We maintain contacts with Municipal General offices of Health ", it advances the coordenadora of 8 ? Regional of Health, in Quixad?, Benedita of Olive tree. In agreement with T?nia Parente, the evaluation of the epidemiologista Libya Souza on the actions of the Local authority to contain the outbreak they were positive. " We are doing exatamente what should be done ", he says.

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Confirmed cases of swine flu reach 13 in Cear?

The Department of Health of Cear? investigates whether the outbreak of influenza A (H1N1) that hit the city of Pedra Branca (261 km from Fortaleza) has spread to another city.

A suspected case was reported in Quixad? (206 km from Fortaleza), according to the organ. The patient was in Pedra Branca during the weekend.

In Pedra Branca, the number of confirmed cases rose from 11 to 13. The number of notifications increased from 281 to 428 on Tuesday (29).

The suspicion is that a resident of the city has been infected by the virus after contact with a person who was in Sao Paulo.

According to the registry, all cases of the disease are considered mild and the patients were doing well. The guideline is that the population adopt hygienic measures like washing hands with soap and water.

About 17 000 41 900 inhabitants of the city were vaccinated against flu this year, according to the secretary.

According to the Ministry of Health, were confirmed in Brazil this year 133 cases. Fifteen people died.

 

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MP asks providences against flu H1N1 in Quixeramobim


After the confirmation of 13 cases of pig flu in White Stone and of suspect cases in Quixeramobim and Good Travel, in Central Backwoods of the Cear?, the State Public prosecution service set administrative proceeding up in order to collect providences for the control of the disease.
The proceeding was opened in this Thursday (1) by the promoter Hugo Frota Magalh?s Oporto Grandson, of the Judicature of Quixeramobim. In agreement with the promoter, the objective is to accompany and to supervise the actions of the General office of the Health. " We set the proceeding up to alert on the disease and so that an eventual outbreak does not catch us done not provided ", it indicates. Of agreement with Hugo Frota, a relative plan of contingency is still being applied to the availability of medicines Tamiflu in Quixeramobim. Vehicles for the transfer of patients for hospitals near to the local authority and bigger inspection referring to the validity of the vaccines also are being asked in the document handed to the General office of the Health.

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MP of Quixeramobim (YOU) want informations on case of flu A

The Public prosecution service of Quixeramobim, in the central backwoods of the Cear?, set administrative proceeding up to accompany and to supervise the enfrentamento of cases of the flu A in the local authority. According to the general office of health of the local authority, a suspect case was registered in the town in a baby of nine months and the MP asked also for informations on the tratatamento been intended for the child.

The promoter of Justice of the local authority, Hugo Frota Magalh?es, directed document to the General office of Health of Quixeramobim for, in the space of five days, to receive informations on the professionals' relation of health enabled for the enfrentamento of the disease and for the treatment of the patients who, eventually, come to be reached by the virus H1N1. Also the quantity of available beds is questioned for eventual patients reached by the disease.


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Outbreak of flu A can have if spread for Boa Viagem, Quixad?, Quixeramobim and Acopiara

Besides 13 cases of flu A when the local authorities of Boa Viagem, Quixad? were already confirmed in Pedra Branca, to 261 km of Fortress, Quixeramobim and Acopiara also are in alert. In accordance with the vigilance epidemiol?gica of the local authorities, patients of four cities are monitored by suspicion of having contracted the disease. In Boa Viagem, 24 suspect cases of the H1N1 were already notified by the General office of the Health of the State (Sesa), while Quixeramobim, Quixad? and Acopiara have a case being investigated in each local authority. Already in Pedra Branca, the number of suspect cases rose already for 534 in this Thursday, 1st. In Quixeramobim, to 83 kilometers of White Stone, the suspicion is of that a baby of nine months has contracted the disease.
Before the suspicion, the Public prosecution service set up, in this Thursday, 1st, an administrative proceeding to accompany and to supervise the actions of the General office of Health in the local authority, making a request for informations and providence for the debt enfrentamento of the possible outbreak.



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It raises for 560 the number of cases of suspicion of flu A

It raised for 560 the number of cases of suspicion of flu A in the State of the Cear?. In accordance with it her advises of press of the General office of Health of the State (Sesa), Selma Oliveira, besides the 534 registered in the local authority from White Stone and one in Quixad?, there are reports of 24 persons with symptoms in Good Travel and one in Quixeramobim. The Minister of the Health, Alexandre Padilha, said that ? the idea is missed of vaccinating at this moment the residents from White Stone ?. The declaration was given in this Thursday (1), during the opening of the 14th National Conference of Health, which is being carried out in Brasilia. Alexandre said also that ? the vaccine, when the person takes, stays 10, 15 days to guarantee the immunity. Then the vaccine has no effect any in an outbreak like that one of Pedra Branca ?.


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Residents of Sousa are in panic with stack of the pig flu; suspect the fact is that the virus came from the Cear?

The residents of the city of Sousa in the backwoods of the Butch woman are
living in climate of terror with fear of an epidemic of ? pig flu ?, caused
for the virus influenza A (H1N1). The fear is in function of the connection of many people
residents of Sousa with the city from White Stone in the Cear?, where they were already
notified 534 cases of the flu.
What it has been provoking the panic in the city, the fact is that recently
a group of persons came from the Cear? to participate of a pursued and one of
it passed visitors badly in function of a strong headache.
In the time the boy was taken to the Regional Hospital of
Sousa, was treated and then released, as soon as the doctor discarded it
possibility to be the pig flu.

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The cases of flu A reach 17

Data show that in spite of the increase of the number of confirmations, the suspicions lessen in Pedra Branca After results of examinations laboratoriais, more three cases of flu A (H1N1) were confirmed, in the night of yesterday, in the local authority from White Stone, located in the Central Backwoods, to 261 Km of Fortress. With that, it raises for 17 the number of confirmations of the disease in the Cear?. The informations are of the secretary of the Health of the local authority from White Stone, T?nia Parente. The secretary notices that the only case confirmed up to now of the disease out of the local authority belonged to a patient that it travelled for Quixad?, but that it was contaminated in Pedra Branca.

According to T?nia, from the day 18 of November, 620 suspect cases were notified in the region. However, the daily average of infected possible ones is lessening. So, in spite of 40 cases had been notified of the last Friday up to yesterday, from the beginning of the outbreak, the daily suspicions were varying between 60 and 90 cases. ? The data show that, in spite of the increase of the number of confirmed cases, we are managing to control the disease. In Thursday they were 54 cases, in Friday 52 and in Saturday 40 ?, says the secretary.


Another 26 cases are being investigated: 24 in Boa Viagem, one in Quixeramobim and one in Acopiara.

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18 confirmed cases of flu A

Quixad?. The direction of the Municipal Hospital and House Greets Ad?lia Maria, in Boa Viagen, it confirmed one more positive notification of contamination of the virus H1N1, of the pig flu, in the Central Backwoods. In accordance with the Hospital the patient is a man. He lives in the town of Prairies, in the rural zone of the Local authority, where he is under observation. It the question is a farm-hand. It returned recently of Sao Paulo. It had arrived of White Stone there are four days. Another 23 cases are being investigated. A team of the Vigilance municipal Epidemiol?gica formed a barrier epidemiol?gica in that area to avoid what the disease spreads. The official confirmation must be announced today by the General office of Health of the State (Sesa). With the spread of Good Travel it raises for 18 the number of confirmed cases of the disease provoked by the H1N1 in the Cear? up to the close of this publication.
In accordance with the Sesa, of the beginning I produce in White Stone, in the day 18 of last November, up to the last Friday, day 2, 620 suspect cases had been notified in the region.

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General office of Health confirms 19 cases of flu A in the Cear?

The General office of Health of the State confirmed, in the morning of this Monday (5), 19 cases of flu A H1N1 in the Cear?. 17 cases were registered in the local authority from Pedra Branca, one in Boa Viagem and one in Quixad?. In accordance with the General office, all the cases that appeared up to now of flu A were light and moderate and they have relation with White Stone, local authority of origin of the outbreak.

On the suspicions of cases in other local authorities of Cear?, the examinations of the Central Laboratory of Public Health (Lacen) discarded the cases that were notified in Quixeramobim and in Acopiara. The General office of the Health of the State informed that it already released boxes of tamiflu for all the 21 regional ones of health like preventive measure and to guarantee a strategic stock.

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Swine flu is spreading by the Cear?

The Central Backwoods of the state of the Cear? already have 19 confirmed cases of residents who are infected by the virus of the influenza A H1N1, the famous pig flu. Up to now, 17 patients healthy residents of the local authority from White Stone, responsible for the outbreak of the disease. In accordance with the General office of Health of the State of the Cear? (Sesa), another two cases were confirmed, in the cities of Ba Viagem and Quixad?.
Up to this Monday (5), the region has 736 cases notified and when were considered suspect of being a pig flu. Since 11 students of the agricultural college from White Stone were confirmed by the disease, as soon as other six cases were diagnosed by the Central laboratory of the State (Lacen). However, in it finalizes on Tuesday (30), to Sesa it informed that it was not confirming any more the cases and when the treatment was offered to all the persons who were presenting one of the characteristic symptoms of the pig flu.

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In the Cear?, suspect cases of H1N1 bring 707 near; 19 were already confirmed

New data of the General office of health of the Cear? (Sesa) show that the number of cases supeitos of the influenza A climbed for 707 only the local authority from White, inner Stone of the state and point of origin of the disease the day 23 of November. The last register was noticing 620 suspect cases. Also it raised for 19 the cases confirmed in the whole state. In the swinging of the Sesa, in Pedra Branca 17 cases were confirmed. 24 suspect cases in Boa Viagen, with 1 confirmed one, 3 in Quixad?, with 1 confirmed one and 2 already discarded ones, 1 in already discarded Quixeramobim, 1 in Acopiara also discarded by the Lacen. For the General office, the cases that appeared up to now have relation with the munic?p?o from Pedra Branca. The patients who presented the symptoms were treated with tamiflu, according to recommendations of the Ministry of Health.


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Cear? registers three more cases of flu A H1N1 in this week

THEY ARE PAUL - The State of the Cear? confirmed more three cases of flu A H1N1, according to weekly report spread in this Friday, 9, for the General office of the Health (Sesa).

In total, healthy 22 cases of the disease in the State, from the outbreak registered in Pedra Branca, in the Central Backwoods, which originated in last month. Of this total, 18 confirmed cases are made of White Stone, two in Quixad? and two in Boa Viagen. The confirmations were done by the Laboratory of Public Health (Lacen).

In accordance with the Sesa, they were 759 cases notified in Pedra Branca and 60 in 11 local authorities. All the notified cases as suspects up to now had some relation with Pedra Branca. None of the cases evolved into the serious form of the disease. In the day 26 of November 193 new cases were notified in the hospital from White Stone and, in the last Thursday, 8, only four new suspect cases were registered in the hospital.

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Cases of pig flu in CE keep on increasing

The general office of Health of the Cear? (Sesa) spread in this Friday new informations on the outbreak of the flu A H1N1, the pig flu, in the region in the northwest of the backwoods. Up to now, already there were notified 819 suspect cases of the disease and 22 confirmed cases, being that they all are made a list to the local authority from Pedra Branca, principal point of the dissemination.
Up to now, 12 local authorities of Cear? already registered at least a case of the disease. In the last report, a case is present in the capital of the state, Fortaleza. Previously, three cases were discarded and others still wait for the results of the Central laboratory of the State.
The general office asks the residents the state not to panic on account of the disease. ? Of four cases, three were discarded. Panic is not necessary, but any care is little then the principal is if to be prevented ?, it commented the coordinator of promotion and protection of the health of the Sesa, Manoel Fonseca.

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The Ministry of Health informs that the outbreak of influenza A H1N1 in the local authority of Cear? from White Stone is shut in. This outbreak began in the day 18 of November, when 441 cases of grippal syndrome identified, reaching, initially, pupils of a vocational school. You gave, 18 cases were confirmed laboratorialmente for the virus Influenza TO H1N1 2009, which was person in charge for the outbreak.
With the measures adopted by the Municipal General office of Health (SMS), with the support of the State General office (CATHEDRALS) and of the Ministry of Health (MS), through the General office of Vigilance in Health (SVS\MS), there were no cases or deaths as a result of the disease and from the day 7 of December there is no register of new cases. It was particularly important for this positive ending the opportune implementation of the new Protocol for Treatment of the Influenza TO H1N1 2009, what was prepared and spread it shears SVS\MS in the present year.
One of the most important points of this Protocol is the direction for which, in case of confirmation of the circulation of the virus A H1N1 2009, all the cases of grippal syndrome must receive, more possible precocemente, the antiviral oseltamivir.

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