Spain - Quarantine a military academy in Madrid by an outbreak of influenza A

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Quarantine a military academy in Madrid by an outbreak of influenza A


AGENCIES | MADRID Updated Thursday, 21-05-09 at 20:20

Six soldiers are under observation at the Hospital G?mez Ulla de Madrid are awaiting confirmation that the analysis performed or if suffering from flu AH1N1 not, as reported today in the Congress the Minister for Health and Social Policy, Trinidad Jimenez.

The minister has responded well to the DB of Health spokesman, Mario Mingo, who was asked about the status of 60 military personnel who may be quarantined at the Base of Hoyo de Manzanares (Madrid), home of the Academy of Engineers of the Army land.

"We are awaiting the analysis and testing to determine whether there has been a contagion," Jimenez noted in relation to only six cases, and has indicated that the protocol has been marked by the Public Health System with preventive.

These are the first confirmed cases of influenza in a so-called new Spanish military unit. Sources close to the center of military training military Ep explained that there are military quarantined at the Base of Hoyo de Manzanares. They also noted that several soldiers were today admitted to the Hospital Central de la Defensa G?mez Ulla, the reference to military medical center, which is also used by civilians.

The MoD has had to go to the step after the PP allegations in a statement this afternoon that 60 members of the Academy of Hoyo del Manzanares were quarantined and several of them admitted to the Hospital G?mez Ulla de Madrid, while urged the MoD to clarify "urgent" if it was an outbreak of Influenza A.

 

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Spain confirms 11 new cases of swine flu
2009-05-22 17:33:06 -

MADRID (AP) - Spain has detected 11 cases of swine flu at a military academy outside Madrid and the country's overall total now stands at 126, officials said Friday.
A further 57 soldiers are under observation at the academy, Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said.
The Heath Ministry said school children were allowed to visit the academy earlier this week for field trips, even after suspicion of an outbreak had emerged.
But Fernandez de la Vega denied the health and defense ministries had failed to coordinate with each other, or withheld information from the public.
She said the new cases were only confirmed Friday. All the confirmed and suspected cases at the academy are mild. Of the 11 cases, nine of those people are hospitalized.?

There is no reason for alarm,? she told a news conference after a regularly scheduled Cabinet meeting.
She described 57 people at the base as being under observation, rather than quarantined as the health ministry had said earlier.
The academy houses a military engineering school and is located in Hoyo de Manzanares, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) northwest of Madrid.
A Health Ministry official said authorities are investigating the source of the outbreak and trying to determine if any soldiers, or anyone they had been in contact with, had been recently to a country badly affected by the outbreak.

The Health Ministry said in a statement Friday that with the cases at the academy and several others, Spain's total is now 126.
Spain was the first European country to confirm a case of the disease but has since taken to updating its total only once a week, on Fridays, arguing that the worst of the crisis has passed.
As of last week the total was 103, although when word of the possible outbreak at the military academy broke Thursday night Health Minister Trinidad Jimenez said it had inched up to 107.
Of the 126 cases, all but 31 involve people who have recently been to Mexico, the ministry said.

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A/H1N1 flu hits Spanish military base, 500 quarantined

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MADRID, May 23 (Xinhua) -- More than 500 servicemen from the Hoyo de Manzanres Base near Madrid have been quarantined when 11 of them were found to be infected with the A/H1N1 flu virus, Spanish First Deputy Prime Minister Maria Fernandez de la Vega said on Friday.
Sixty-one other servicemen are under observation, according to a report by the Spanish health ministry.
The Secretary General of the Spanish Health Ministry, Jose Martinez Olmos, said the 11 servicemen had not visited Mexico recently and an investigation into the origin of the infection was underway.
Fernandez called on the people to remain calm as health authorities had adopted measures to prevent the spread of the flu.
She said following the quarantine at the base, no more cases had so far been detected.
Health authorities said 150 students aged between 11 and 12 visited the base on May 18 and May 20, but so far none had shown symptoms of the flu.
The Ministry of Defense said the students visited a location about 500 meters away from the infected area, so there should be no possibility of infection among them.
The Mayor of Honyo de Manzanares Jose Ramon Regueiras said people who had symptoms of the flu or had been in contact with suspected cases should not go to hospitals, instead they should call emergency number 112 for medical treatment. According to the health ministry, the number of infected people in the country has risen to 126, all with mild symptoms. They are responding well to treatment, reports said. :tiphat:http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/23/content_11424863.htm 　

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Inquiry ordered in Spain after children needlessly exposed to swine flu

AN INQUIRY into an outbreak of swine flu in Spain has been ordered after children were unnecessarily exposed to the virus.



Defence minister Carme Chac?n ordered the inquiry into an outbreak at the Hoyo de Manzanares base, a military academy near Madrid, where there have been 18 confirmed cases of A/H1N1 flu. A further 81 people are awaiting test results. All cases are said to be mild.
Ms Chac?n?s inquiry is attempting to find out why the military authorities apparently took until last Friday before officially reporting the outbreak, although the first case was confirmed last Monday. During those four days two groups of school children visited the academy, and could have been exposed to the virus.
Some 500 people in the military engineering school have been confined to barracks.It is not known how the soldiers contracted the virus, since none of them is known to have visited Mexico recently. Most other persons in Spain with the illness had been in Mexico shortly before becoming ill.
These cases bring the number of reported victims in Spain to 145.
The opposition Popular Party (PP) has demanded Ms Chac?n?s resignation. ?She covered up the flu outbreak in the military academy and only later visited it accompanied by photographers,? said PP leader Mariano Rajoy.
Prime minister Jos? Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said: ?They [PP] demand the minister?s resignation because a few soldiers have caught flu, but they continue to defend Trillo over the Yak-42 affair. How can they be serious??
Last week, former defence minister Federico Trillo refused to resign from parliament after a general and two officers were jailed over a cover-up regarding the fate of a Yak-42 plane carrying 62 Spanish soldiers from Afghanistan six years ago, which crashed in Turkey killing all on board.:tiphat:http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0525/1224247325142.html

 

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Amount to 25 positive cases of influenza A outbreak in the Hole

Instituto de Salud Carlos III continues to confirm new cases of influenza A associated with the outbreak at the Academy of Military Engineers in Hoyo de Manzanares. Since yesterday the number of cases have increased by four, so the 25 are already infected with A/H1N1 virus, including one reported in Castilla y Leon and Castilla-La Mancha, both discharged.

As reported until 1300 hours the Ministry of Health and Social Policy by the health authorities of Defense, the number of cases studied at the Academy of Military Engineers in Hoyo de Manzanares possible infection by influenza virus A/H1N1 is 61, 17 less than yesterday.

In the military establishment by Ferral (Leon) 91 continue with restricted mobility, including three in the studio, because they stayed at different days last week at the Academy of Military Engineers of Hoyo de Manzanares. All concerned have a mild clinical symptoms and a favorable response to treatment.

 

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Source: http://mx.reuters.com/article/topNews/idMXN2754226720090527?sp=true

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Amount to 25 soldiers with influenza H1N1 in Spain
Wednesday May 27 2009 08:22 CDT

MADRID, May 27 (Reuters) - The number of soldiers infected by the H1N1 flu virus on Wednesday rose to 25 after four new cases confirmed, said the Health Ministry said in a statement.

All confirmed cases along these days, but two - one in Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y Leon - are located at the Academy of Hoyo de Manzanares in Madrid.

In all cases, those affected have a mild clinical symptoms and a favorable response to treatment, said the Ministry.

In addition to the facilities of Hoyo de Manzanares, where more than 450 soldiers have been unable to leave the barracks as a precautionary measure to contain the outbreak at a military center of the town of El Leon Ferral is 91 people with restricted mobility, because hosted on different days last week in the Madrid academy.

In the barracks there madrile?o 61 suspected cases and three in the military establishment by Ferral.

The Minister of Defense of Spain, Carme Chacon, who appeared yesterday in the Senate, intends to report on Wednesday about the outbreak in Congress along with the owner of Health, Trinidad Jimenez.

Chacon said Tuesday that at all times to comply with the protocols established by the World Health Organization.

This issue has sparked criticism from the opposition, both in how it is managed by the fact that allowing the visit of a military school when they were sick in the barracks.

The Spanish authorities suspected that the H1N1 flu virus is more widespread than official figures suggest, but may be milder than the common flu, reported on Wednesday, the daily El Pa?s.

"Most people who have symptoms of flu is not a specific analysis, and recovered, never know what virus has had" health unidentified sources told the newspaper.

"Experts suspect that a significant percentage of it is H1N1," they added.

The disease is highly contagious but is lighter and perhaps less serious than the common flu, said El Pa?s, after days of frantic news reports of soldiers in quarantine.

(Reporting by Jason Webb and Emma Pinedo in Madrid Writing)