Health Minister advises to defer travel to Chile & Argentina

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Source: http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/4...n-no-viajar-la-Argentina-y-Chile-la-influenza

Google translation:

Recommended not to travel in Brazil to Argentina and Chile by the influenza

The Brazilian Minister of Health in St. Paul today advised people to defer trips planned to these countries to avoid getting influenza A


Following the suspension of classes in schools and a university in San Pablo, the Health Ministry issued a communique today where advised not to travel to Argentina or Chile to prevent future infection with influenza A.

The recommendation also applies to other Latin American countries with high records of disease transmission. "It must be avoided to the maximum - in particular - that pregnant women, immune depressed (such as AIDS patients), less than two years and people over 60 voyages to these regions."

The minister, Jose Gomes Tempor?o said that the measure was agreed by the Ministry of Health.

According to the text, "the measure was taken based on the statistics made by the Secretary. An assessment of the institution shows that 40% of the 116 new cases of influenza in the state of Sao Paulo were patients who traveled to Argentina and Chile of 5.1%. 15.5% of patients were infected in the United States and 2.5% in Canada. "

"Besides these, another of the countries of infection is likely France, England, Mexico and Uruguay," the communique.

 

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Source: http://www.buenosairesherald.com/BreakingNews/View/4668

Precautions to prevent swine flu
Brazil tightens controls on flights from Argentina
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Brazil's Health Minister Jose Temporao discourages Brazilians from travelling to Argentina.

Brazilian Health Minister Jos? Gomes Temporao recommended Brazilians not to travel to Argentina and Chile to prevent contracting H1N1 influenza, after thousands of cases were reported in both countries of the Southern cone.

Meanwhile, the Brazilian government has tightened controls on flights coming from different parts of Argentina. The new special precautionary measures adopted by Brazil include filling a special form, the isolation of any person showing flu symptoms.

Airliners must provide the government with lists with their passengers, with their telephone numbers and contact people.

The special controls of the Brazilian customs have increased after the media reported that most cases of swine flu in that country were registered from people arriving from other South-American nations. Ten people have dide from H1N1 have died in Argentina and seven in Chile, according to official sources.

"The Health authorities are recommending people of more than 60 years, and children of up to two years old, and people undergoing chemo therapy and Aids, I mean with deficiencies in their immune systems, not to travel to where the virus is circulating," the minister stated in a press communiqu?.

"At this moment in South America, the two countries with the highest number of cases, where the virus is intensely circulating are Argentina and Chile," Temporao added.

 

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Re: Health Minister advises to defer travel to Chile & Argentina

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""The Health authorities are recommending people of more than 60 years, and children of up to two years old, and people undergoing chemo therapy and Aids, I mean with deficiencies in their immune systems, not to travel to where the virus is circulating," the minister stated in a press communiqu?."

it seems that the widen theory of the supposed "old immunity" of the folks older than 50 (Asiatic flu) or older, unfortunately starts to sink ...

Bad indeed.