La gripe A brota en Aragón
35 pacientes están hospilizadas en la comunidad, 18 de ellos en la UCI
Todos los afectados son personas de riesgo y no estaban vacunados
Patricia Peiró Madrid 13 ENE 2014 - 10:03 CET
Swine flu emerges in Aragon
35 patients are hospilizadas in the community, 18 of them in the ICU
All affected individuals are at risk and were not vaccinated
The Ministry of Health of the Government of Aragon studies the causes of an outbreak of influenza A in the community after they have been admitted 35 people in Zaragoza and Teruel in just two weeks. 18 were affected on Sunday in the intensive care unit , according to Efe . They all belong to groups suffering pathologies pre - and none of them were vaccinated , according to regional health authorities high - risk patients .
The first case occurred in the Teruel province on December 26 and since then the virus has spread rapidly . Patients are isolated to prevent contagion in four hospitals and two Teruel Zaragoza . From late September have been reported 70 cases of patients hospitalized for influenza A in 10 communities , counting the outbreak in Aragon. Two of these patients died .
Hospitalized suffered previous pathologies , especially respiratory
The regional head of Health , Ricardo Oliván , met yesterday to the heads of health of Aragon to study the progression of the disease . After the meeting, appealed to the "calm". The Director General of Public Health, Francisco Sancho , downplayed the severity of the outbreak because " no different from the other ," but noted that this disease "behaves unpredictably every year ." Oliván explained that at this time in 2013 there were seven hospitalized in the community for the same reason .
The director of the Research Institute of Emerging Diseases , Juan José Badiola , he feels that it is quite "unique" that this high number of cases focus on such short flu caused by the H1N1 virus , the strain that caused an alert world five years ago. Badiola points to meteorological factors as possible causes of the disease has spread so rapidly in Aragon and does not rule out the virus may have mutated and been strengthened , but stressed that the outbreak is at a very preliminary stage as to draw conclusions .
The Department of Health has activated Aragonese protocol applied in these cases , which includes vaccinating all who have been in contact with affected and expected that may have the disease. Oliván also urged all to note that the symptoms of flu are intensified , to come to their GP to rule that may be of type A.
Two people have died in Spain from September for this disease
A doctor at the University Clinical Hospital that treats four of the affected affects the outbreak has been more virulent because it has affected people with underlying airways disease , especially COPD , a lung disorder that occurs mainly in smokers. However , he points to wait for the results of the first tests are known to know why it has spread so fast in just two weeks.
A spokesman for the Health Department of Aragon reminded that people with risk factors , ie , suffering from any disease related to the respiratory tract or exceeds 65, there is still time to get vaccinated.
The same request was made this week the director of the Coordinating Center Health Alerts and Emergencies of the Ministry of Health, Fernando Simón , who asked tranquility. "Experts " he said, " I know what they are working " and are aware that influenza type A produces more hospitalizations than type B , which was the one that prevailed last year. Simon recalled that the flu affects younger people.
豚インフルエンザは、アラゴンに現れる
35人の患者はICUで、そのうちの18地域社会でhospilizadasです
影響を受けるすべての個人が危険にさらされているとワクチン接種しなかった
10時03分CET - Peiroパトリシア·マドリード13 ENE2014
Peiro Patricia Madrid 13 ENE 2014 - 10:03 CET
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