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Six More
Cases Of
H1N1
Confirmed: Total Now At 26
The minista de Salud, Maria Luisa Avila,
confirmed on Thursday six more cases of
AH1N1 flu in Costa Rica, bringing the total
of confirmed cases to 26 since the outbreak
on April 24.
Avila said that this six patients were not
among the pervious reports of "probable"
cases of the H1N1 flu due to the detection
limitations. However, she said that now the
Instituto Costarricense de Investigación y
Enseñanza en Nutrición y Salud (Inciensa)
has more capacity to analyze the samples.
"From these six new cases, four were from
the transmission chain of a girl in Heredia,
who infected her three brothers and the
doctor who assisted her," Avila said.
The other two cases were in San Jose and the
transmission chain is still being
investigated.
Avila said that probably it is starting to
be an autochthonous transmission of the H1N1
flu. However, she denied a massive
infections, because the new cases are kept
on chains of contact.
To the moment have health authorities have
determined 1,080 possible cases, from them
925 were discarded and 127 are waiting for
the lab tests results.
Also there are other two pending cases,
which were negative, but the results are
doubtable and samples have been sent to the
Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta.
Costa Rica was the fourth country in the
world on reporting a death due to the H1N1
flu, after the cases reported in Mexico, the
United States and Canada. |
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