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Editor, Senior Moderator
The sanitary authorities of the Colombian capital are in Alert before the multiplication of the cases of contagion of the flu A, that went on from 2 ? 3 per week to 10 in the last seven days, reported today the director of Public Health of Bogota, Ricardo Rojas. The official indicated journalists who in the covered of 2010 have presented to themselves 3 deaths in Bogota and before the gravity of the problem a meeting is reckoned this Tuesday to evaluate the situation. In the whole country, the number of infected by the virus H1N1 has increased in the last 21 days of between 1 and 3 cases per week to 6 in average. The principal foci that have registered are the departments of Santander North-East, Tolima I centre and Nari?o south-west. We do called the institutions of health to remind to them the importance of the conditioning of his facilities where it is necessary to hospitalize patients for respiratory sharp serious infection, he added Red. The Colombian minister of the Social Protection, Diego Palacio, recommended to the hospitable centers to raise the level of Alert and to be hanging to detect possible contagions.
We have to be very careful, since there are new cases, he underlined that, on having remembered that the virus keeps on existing .En Bogota, since the first case was brought, 1.744 contagions and 74 deaths have been taken into account, according to numbers of the Secretary of Health. In Colombia the Confirmed cases of contagion for the National Institute of Health are 3.900 and 243 deaths have appeared. The World Organization of the Health WHO announced last week his decision to support the Alert of pandemic of the flu A, one year after his coming into effect and the adoption of sanitary exceptional measurements in the whole world to control his spread. The general manager of the WHO, Margaret Chan, announced that the Emergency committee of the organism will meet again in the middle of July to evaluate the situation. The virus H1N1 was discovered in April, 2009 in North America and was declared on June 11 of this year as the first pandemic of the XXIst century due to his rapid geographical spread and to the fears that it generated for talking each other about an unknown virus and with possibilities of mutar. The flu A has provoked in little more than thirteen months approximately 18.000 deceases Confirmed in the whole world by laboratory tests, opposite to 500.000 annual deaths that assume to the seasonal flu.
http://www.adn.es/internacional/20100607/NWS-1033-Bogota-Alerta-multiplicacion-gripe-casos.html
We have to be very careful, since there are new cases, he underlined that, on having remembered that the virus keeps on existing .En Bogota, since the first case was brought, 1.744 contagions and 74 deaths have been taken into account, according to numbers of the Secretary of Health. In Colombia the Confirmed cases of contagion for the National Institute of Health are 3.900 and 243 deaths have appeared. The World Organization of the Health WHO announced last week his decision to support the Alert of pandemic of the flu A, one year after his coming into effect and the adoption of sanitary exceptional measurements in the whole world to control his spread. The general manager of the WHO, Margaret Chan, announced that the Emergency committee of the organism will meet again in the middle of July to evaluate the situation. The virus H1N1 was discovered in April, 2009 in North America and was declared on June 11 of this year as the first pandemic of the XXIst century due to his rapid geographical spread and to the fears that it generated for talking each other about an unknown virus and with possibilities of mutar. The flu A has provoked in little more than thirteen months approximately 18.000 deceases Confirmed in the whole world by laboratory tests, opposite to 500.000 annual deaths that assume to the seasonal flu.
http://www.adn.es/internacional/20100607/NWS-1033-Bogota-Alerta-multiplicacion-gripe-casos.html