Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Argentina: 72 Deaths - 65 Deaths reported yesterday

There would be more than 70 victims of the influenza A
We detected eight new deaths: five in Santa Fe and the remaining three in the City of Buenos Aires, San Juan and Neuquen.

There would be more than 70 victims of the influenza A
Influenza A resulted in eight more deaths in the country, five of them in Santa Fe, and the other three in Buenos Aires, Neuquén and San Juan, according to health authorities reported on Monday. In this way, the total amount of deaths to 72.

Santa Fe The Ministry of Health reported five deaths, bringing the death toll to 18 in the province: 15 in Rosario Node, two in Santa Fe and one in Venado Tuerto.

Moreover, governments of Neuquen and San Juan the first confirmed deaths in these provinces as a result of the influenza A (H1N1), while the Minister of Health of Buenos Aires, Jorge Lemus, the seventh confirmed death in the City of Buenos Aires.

Victims across the country officially joined 60, according to listings released by the Ministry of Health of the Nation on Sunday night. This report refers to Santa Fe with nine cases, however, the health portfolio in the province announced that they are 18. Therefore, the total would reach 72 if account is taken of the 12 cases recorded in Santa Fe, Neuquén, San Juan and Capital.

In San Juan, meanwhile, the first death by influenza A was confirmed Monday by health officials, who said that this is a woman of 38 years, originally from Caucete, located 35 kilometers east of the provincial capital.

The victim, who was not included in any risk group suffered from respiratory complications which could not be replenished, and died in last Saturday night in the sanitarium Almirante Brown.

In addition, the Secretariat of Health of Neuquén informed that the first death in this district was that of a child who had a pre-existing disease.
hat-tip Shiloh

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