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The sum of confirmed cases of influenza A virus H1N1 does not stop. So far this week have confirmed 20 new patients.

The total number of positive cases at national level is of 401 patients, while deaths remain at 10.

TEGUCIGALPA .- The head of epidemiological surveillance of the Ministry of Health, Marco Antonio Pinel, confirmed Monday the death of two more people from influenza A (H1N1), so that the number of people dying from this disease would reach twelve.


Cases of influenza A (H1N1) continue to increase reaching 429 confirmed cases.
A woman of 23, pregnant, originating Goascorán, Valle and a 10-year term expiring at the Mother and Child Hospital during the month of August, from the department of La Paz became the new victims of the deadly disease

Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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The influenza A virus H1N1 continues to gain ground in Honduras.

The disease killed a child only six months old, who yesterday became the thirteenth victim of the deadly virus that threatens the entire country.

The death was confirmed yesterday by the authorities of the Ministry of Health as the pandemic spreads vigorously through the different schools that are in the main cities of Honduras.

San Pedro Sula. , Honduras

A small three-year-old became the 14th victim of the deadly H1N1 influenza virus in Honduras.
The case was confirmed by the health authorities and revealed that the minor was suffering from heart disease, which complicated his condition.

The girl lived in Choloma and died in Social Security in San Pedro Sula on Thursday night.

Confirmed cases are held in 459, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health

The Honduras Ministry of Health confirmed today that the deaths from influenza A (H1N1) total to 15 in the country.

The Epidemiology of Health director, Marco Antonio Pinel, confirmed 505 cases and more than 1,600 people suspected of having the disease.

According to the Ministry of Health, 13 new cases were confirmed this we

Resurface outbreaks of H1N1 in the capital
Dowall School in quarantine after a number of cases detected

Honduras

The threat of AH1N1 influenza virus has resurfaced in the capital.

Health Reportedly, in the capital in recent days have detected outbreaks in two private schools.

The students after showing the clinical picture of the disease was kept under medical surveillance, in order to prevent further spread.

The health authorities requested the temporary closure of educational institutions to begin the lifting of samples to be analyzed in the laboratory of Virology.

Marco Antonio Pinel, chief warden of Health, said that so far this year have identified five cases of the disease in the Central District. The new suspected victims are 15 students.

One of the schools that has been closed temporarily Dowall is the School, as reported by the radio
HRN.

To date the toll confirmed through national laboratory studies are 645 cases. In private laboratories have confirmed 12 cases.

So far this year, the country still not confirmed fatalities.

A series of school closures coming because of "swine flu"
March 3, 2010
National News

TEGUCIGALPA .- Health authorities warned yesterday of a coming series of activity suspensions in various centers of the capital after the closure of the Dowal School because of influenza A(H1N1) infections.

They admitted that the virus is circulating freely and that crowded places are favorable for transmission of the disease.

Authorities closed the bilingual school because the disease had caused 39 percent absenteeism of students, who were treated at private medical centers because they carry the virus.

Tito Alvarado, the infectious diseases expert of the Hospital School, stated that other schools and colleges will probably have to close soon unless preventive measures are taken, because the virus is indigenous.

He also reported that, in previous days, a bilingual school in the same area had been temporarily closed but that, since the virus incubation period has passed, the school, in Lomas del Guijarro, has been reopened.

"No doubt we will soon have small clusters of infections mainly at educational centers with children, who are highly susceptible to the virus, which may lead to a series of closures of educational centers and places where people congregate," he predicted.

One of the warnings concerns the Dowal School which, after six months of registering no infections, now presents an alarming situation that should make everyone attentive to taking preventive measures.

Alvarado indicated that, up to now, it may be that the country hasn't seen much of the contagion, but people who travel to other countries bring the virus back and transmit it to their families, and then the children go to school, and it multiplies.

"This situation could also occur on military bases and in prisons, sweatshops, boarding schools and casinos, but we believe that if the public observes the protective measures that they already know, closures can be avoided."

The latest report indicates that 13 cases of the dreaded disease are already registered in 2010, bringing the total of confirmed cases to 638, with 16 deaths, since the pandemic emerged in May of 2009. One death remains to be confirmed.

"The A(H1N1) virus will become one of the seasonal influenzas and in this form it will be striking, which makes the vaccine against it extremely important. All the countries of Central America and Mexico have already immunized their populations."

As reported, health authorities will launch a massive vaccination campaign against the disease on March 15, in which they will be immunizing the most vulnerable populations, including children, the elderly, pregnant women and health care personnel. This should significantly reduce the levels of infection.

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