Re: Spain - confirmed swine flu cases - 968 - 2 deaths
Re: Spain - confirmed swine flu cases - 968 - 2 deaths
The numbers affected in Spain by influenza A to almost 100 cases a day and nearly 1000
Health reports that the total number of affected people is 968
There are serious people in Madrid, Catalonia, Andalusia, Asturias and Galicia
For its part, United Kingdom doubled in three days the number of deaths
Has emerged as the third-highest incidence, with 9718 cases
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RTVE.ES / AGENCIAS MADRID
09.07.2009 - 21:35h
The Ministry of Health has reported that the total number affected by influenza A (H1N1) has risen to 968 people, almost one hundred more than yesterday, and there are people in serious condition in Madrid, Catalonia, Andalusia, Asturias and Galicia.
Also, has reported the death of a patient in Gran Canaria, Spain in the second victim.
Data submitted by the Autonomous Communities and the National Center of Microbiology and Virology of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III confirmed that the majority of cases developing in a positive manner, with a few days of recovery in most of those affected.
Yesterday it was learned that a woman of 74 years was admitted on July 5 in the ICU of the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias (HUCA) being affected by influenza A (H1N1). The patient required intubation and mechanical ventilation from the time of admission, when she came from a private hospital Asturian.
Ourense in moving the child of 4 years affected by the virus and admitted to the Hospital Complex of Ourense (CHOU), but continues in the Pediatric ICU Service. His health has improved a lot, "reported hospital sources today.
On the other hand, remain in hospitals andaluces two U.S. citizens-a child of 12 years and a military base in Rota-hit by the virus. The child admitted to the Virgen del Rocio hospital in Seville, remains serious but stable, with an acquisition of pneumonia in a community of mixed aetiology of influenza virus A (H1N1) and "Staphylococcus aureus resistant to methicillin has been reported the hospital.
The Military Base Naval de Rota (Cadiz) remained hospitalized in the ICU of the Hospital Puerta del Mar of Cadiz and is stable under gravity. The patient recently arrived in the U.S. and developed the first symptoms on June 30. Faced with a worsening of their state hospital was moved to Cadiz.
In Catalonia, the two individuals have a significant input of serious respiratory problems. She is a woman of 52 years, and obese with sleep apnea, who is hospitalized at the Hospital de Bellvitge and moving in the gravity, and a man of 32 years admitted to the ICU at the Hospital Joan XXIII Tarragona for over a week, and that there has been no change in his condition seriously.
In Madrid, the wife of 35 years admitted to the Hospital de Getafe has not changed, sources have said today that health center. The eight year old boy who suffers from the so-called "Angelman syndrome" and is at the Hospital of the Child Jesus by the new flu evolves into a stable gravity.
United Kingdom doubled in three days the number of deaths
At the international level, there are about 100,000 cases with 437 deaths, including about 10,800 in the European Union, according to sources from the WHO and the European Center for Prevention and Disease Control.
Specifically, United Kingdom has doubled in just three days the number of people killed by new influenza and the total rises to 14, as confirmed by the National Health System (NHS, in its English acronym), which recognized that the incidence in areas such as London has now reached epidemic levels.
More than 300 people have pointed out-patient treatment and 43 were still in "critical", although most of the others had more serious health problems.
In any case, the numbers have put United Kingdom as the third-highest incidence of new flu, behind United States and Mexico, although the health authorities insist they are "coping well" to the crisis and that most cases have been mild and have not specified medical treatment.
In this sense, the information campaign launched by the Government Press and radio stations recommended for those who believe suffer mild symptoms to rest and stay in their homes, instead of going immediately to their doctors. A difficult situation to know about the actual impact, as the chief doctor of England and Wales, Liam Donaldson, but so far, the number of confirmed cases is officially 9718.
In addition, United Kingdom has ceased to prescribe antiviral drugs to all those affected, which could reach 100,000 per day in late August of current trends. However, the Healthcare that affected most of the symptoms are mild and recovery takes a few days.
The British Government has taken that can not contain the spread of the virus and has decided to move to the treatment stage, waiting for the vaccine will be ready from next month.
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