Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Disney/Brazil Flight: Surveillance will be tracking 18 people who were in flight when Jacqueline Ruas Died

05/08/2009

The State Health Secretariat of São Paulo reported that the Health Surveillance is monitoring 18 people who were on the flight in which the teenager Jacqueline Streets, 15, died last Sunday (2).

The teenager returned from a trip to Disney and still showed symptoms of influenza in the United States. She was referred to a hospital where he was subjected to an examination to diagnose it was swine flu - the so-called influenza A (H1N1) - but the result was negative.

The couple returned to go wrong during the flight and was attended by two doctors who were on board, they did CPR procedures for it, but had no success. According to SSP (Department of Public Safety), the IML diagnosed pneumonia as the cause of death.

According to Secretary of Health of São Paulo, they were sitting in the row next to Jacqueline during the flight that landed at the international airport of São Paulo, at Guarulhos (metropolitan area). The list of passengers was made by Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency).

According to the Secretariat, among the 18 passengers selected people from different states and even from other countries. The monitoring will be done by the Epidemiological Monitoring of each site.

On Monday (3), the tourism agency of Aunt Augusta, reported that a boy who traveled on the same flight of the adolescent, was confirmed with the swine flu. A child traveling with parents and showed symptoms of flu yet in the United States.

Case
The family of the student decided to sue the operator of tourism Aunt Augusta. The teenager's aunt, Magda Peace Santos, 39, says the goal is to get information on what happened during the U.S. tour before the teenager go wrong and die.

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