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Costa Rica: The Department of Health lowers the alert in the Hospital of San Carlos for cases of pneumonia and H1N1

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In the last hours, doctors and employees of the Hospital of Ciudad Quesada conveyed its concern by a so-called crisis at this medical center. A supposed death from the H1N1 virus and several cases of pneumonia, is concerned in this city. According to Roberto Castro, physician of the monitoring unit of the Ministry of health, the situation is not so serious: despite being collapsed Emergency Center, Castro denied there is a crisis of pneumonia in Nicaragua which caused danger to the country: the doctors recommend people washing hands and not be exposed to strong Christmas winds, since this helps spread the virus at the time.



http://www.columbia.co.cr/index.php/...eumonia-y-h1n1
 
[h=1]Costa Rica health officials confirm 2 new cases of H1N1 flu virus[/h] The director of San Carlos Hospital in northern Costa Rica, Edgar Carrillo Rojas, on Monday confirmed that doctors are treating two patients diagnosed with the H1N1 flu virus.
Both patients reportedly are in critical condition. One faces complications caused by pneumonia, and the other has bronchopneumonia, Carrillo said.
The hospital is treating a total of 10 patients with respiratory diseases, mostly pneumonia, but doctors are so far unable to confirm that all are attributable to H1N1, because the Costa Rican Nutrition and Health Research Institute is closed for the holidays.
Of the 10 patients admitted last week, three are in critical condition. The remaining seven are in stable condition, Carrillo said. Hospital officials on Sunday transferred an 11-year-old girl with severe pneumonia symptoms to the National Children?s Hospital in San Jos?


http://www.ticotimes.net/2015/12/21/h1n1-costa-rica-health-officials-confirm-two-new-cases
 
The death of four persons in San Carlos because of respiratory evil derives in clashes in the CCSS: the medical director of the hospital sancarle?o insists on attributing them to pneumonia while Epidemiologic surveillance investigates them as if they were leptospirosis. Xiomara badilla Vargas, chief of the Subarea of Epidemiologic surveillance of the Box, supports that they evaluate the cases as leptospirosis, a bacterium transmitted by rusts of animals. But the director of the hospital, ?dgar Carrillo, discards it. ? It has no sense in cases of the deceased to speak of leptospira. For me, they died of pneumonia (inflammation of the lung or part of him, produced, generally, by the neumococo), and this is the criterion of other companions ?. It qualified the declarations of badilla as ? exits of tone ?, and added: ", before expressing an opinion about what it is spending, he should have visited the hospital so that he finds out first hand on the real situation ?.

More dead persons. This Monday, they raised to four the deaths that have taken place from the weekend and that support in anxiety this zone of the country. Two last ones happened in the course of yesterday. The first one is that of a 18-year-old young man, neighbor of San Josecito of Cutris, who died in his house in the dawn. The Organism of Judicial Investigation (OIJ) and the Public local Force reported that the family of the boy said that this one had a picture of vomiting and fever, and it had had respiratory problems a few days ago. Other one took place at about 5 PM of Monday. As confirmed ?dgar Carrillo, the victim was a 77-year-old woman, who, in addition to presenting a respiratory complicated picture, was diabetic, hypertense and cardi?pata. These cases join that of a 20-year-old young man, of Saint Rosa de Pocosol, deceased last Thursday, and that of another 30-year-old man, who died on Friday. The Department of Health confirmed that one of them had the influenza AH1N1.


http://www.nacion.com/nacional/salu..._content=2015-12-22&utm_campaign=rss-nacional
 
Caya confirms the first death for H1N1

This Tuesday, the coordinating one of Epidemiologic surveillance of the Costa Rican Box of Social security, Xiomara Badilla, confirmed to EXTRA NEWSPAPER that the deceased patient today in San Carlos is the first and only victim confirmed for H1N1 in the country during the last days.
In this moment there are two patients more hospitalized by symptoms similar to those of the virus.
At present there is studied the death of another four persons, nevertheless the investigations of the OIJ have not been delivered, which does not allow to confirm if it talks each other of H1N1.
The experts recommend to vaccinate against the virus and take the precautions of the case.

http://www.diarioextra.com/Noticia/detalle/279462/caja-confirma-primera-muerte-por-h1n1
 
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