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Source: http://www.milenio.com/node/284967
Google translation:
Parainfluenza caused more deaths in the capital
Experts still analyzing the situation based on multiple samples.
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Mon, 14/09/2009 - 05:45
In the ITESM Biotechnology Center are still doing tests to clarify the situation. Photo: Eduardo Padilla Sada
Monterrey .- The high rate of infection and mortality of influenza virus in Mexico City may be caused due to factors not affecting Monterrey. There are serious suspicions among the medical community that Mexico City has been hit by a second virus, parainfluenza, which combined with AH1N1 influenza is more lethal.
"It seems they are just in early studies, may have been two viruses at the same time in Mexico City. With a parainfluenza virus and influenza AH1N1 it grew, increased risk of serious illness and death, and here we had the other.
"It is still considered very early on, are doing the molecular analysis for the presence. We'll probably have to send us also in our samples, "said Martin Hernandez Torre, director of the School of Biotechnology, ITESM.
Following a meeting of doctors from the private and the public realm of the Health Department, Hernandez said that one of the advisers of the Secretary of Health, Dr. Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos are currently investigating such suspicions.
The advisor is Dr. Guillermo Ruiz Palacios, director of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Nutrition, an expert in virology.
In Femsa Biotechnology Center at ITESM, "we have preserved samples of all the cases we have treated, I guess from the second of May and right now we probably have more than 800 cases prosecuted. Then (the would be reviewed) to see if we find some other virus sequences, with the nutrition group is doing this analysis, "said the doctor.
There may be "a biological factor that made it less severe for Nuevo Leon not being a possible combination of two viruses causing the damage that we saw in Mexico City. But, I tell you that the experts will answer us in the coming weeks, "said the doctor.
In its latest publication, the Health Ministry marks the Federal District as the third entity in the country with two thousand 641 cases confirmed and Nuevo Leon in eighth place with 942 cases.
Cases of death
However, we know that in Nuevo Leon, the state agency already upgraded their data and our state has thousands of 24 cases confirmed, but so far no one knows exactly where to update the nation's capital.
According to government information, the first places are occupied Chiapas three thousand 459 cases confirmed and Yucatan with two thousand 970.
"We saw him sadly in the south of the country, the lag in ravaged southern Chiapas. It was extremely hard in Oaxaca and Yucatan. In Chiapas, we said Dr. Ruiz Palacios, was sad to see especially pregnant women.
"Pregnant women are at particular risk, as young women, are more complicated cases," lamented the specialist.
The doctor said the reason that these states are facing south and so they have so many victims of the virus infections and is about the shortcomings they have in health, educational attainment in the population, and access to medicine and other resources to care for the sick.
Causes
There may be a biological factor that made it less severe for Nuevo Leon not being a possible combination of two viruses causing the damage that we saw in Mexico City.
In its latest publication, the Health Ministry marks the Federal District as the third entity in the country with two thousand 641 cases confirmed and Nuevo Leon in eighth place with 942 cases.
Eduardo Padilla Sada
Google translation:
Parainfluenza caused more deaths in the capital
Experts still analyzing the situation based on multiple samples.
*
Mon, 14/09/2009 - 05:45
In the ITESM Biotechnology Center are still doing tests to clarify the situation. Photo: Eduardo Padilla Sada
Monterrey .- The high rate of infection and mortality of influenza virus in Mexico City may be caused due to factors not affecting Monterrey. There are serious suspicions among the medical community that Mexico City has been hit by a second virus, parainfluenza, which combined with AH1N1 influenza is more lethal.
"It seems they are just in early studies, may have been two viruses at the same time in Mexico City. With a parainfluenza virus and influenza AH1N1 it grew, increased risk of serious illness and death, and here we had the other.
"It is still considered very early on, are doing the molecular analysis for the presence. We'll probably have to send us also in our samples, "said Martin Hernandez Torre, director of the School of Biotechnology, ITESM.
Following a meeting of doctors from the private and the public realm of the Health Department, Hernandez said that one of the advisers of the Secretary of Health, Dr. Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos are currently investigating such suspicions.
The advisor is Dr. Guillermo Ruiz Palacios, director of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Nutrition, an expert in virology.
In Femsa Biotechnology Center at ITESM, "we have preserved samples of all the cases we have treated, I guess from the second of May and right now we probably have more than 800 cases prosecuted. Then (the would be reviewed) to see if we find some other virus sequences, with the nutrition group is doing this analysis, "said the doctor.
There may be "a biological factor that made it less severe for Nuevo Leon not being a possible combination of two viruses causing the damage that we saw in Mexico City. But, I tell you that the experts will answer us in the coming weeks, "said the doctor.
In its latest publication, the Health Ministry marks the Federal District as the third entity in the country with two thousand 641 cases confirmed and Nuevo Leon in eighth place with 942 cases.
Cases of death
However, we know that in Nuevo Leon, the state agency already upgraded their data and our state has thousands of 24 cases confirmed, but so far no one knows exactly where to update the nation's capital.
According to government information, the first places are occupied Chiapas three thousand 459 cases confirmed and Yucatan with two thousand 970.
"We saw him sadly in the south of the country, the lag in ravaged southern Chiapas. It was extremely hard in Oaxaca and Yucatan. In Chiapas, we said Dr. Ruiz Palacios, was sad to see especially pregnant women.
"Pregnant women are at particular risk, as young women, are more complicated cases," lamented the specialist.
The doctor said the reason that these states are facing south and so they have so many victims of the virus infections and is about the shortcomings they have in health, educational attainment in the population, and access to medicine and other resources to care for the sick.
Causes
There may be a biological factor that made it less severe for Nuevo Leon not being a possible combination of two viruses causing the damage that we saw in Mexico City.
In its latest publication, the Health Ministry marks the Federal District as the third entity in the country with two thousand 641 cases confirmed and Nuevo Leon in eighth place with 942 cases.
Eduardo Padilla Sada