AH1N1 Flu
Cases Rises To 18 In Nicaragua
Managua - The Nicaraguan Health Ministry
said on Friday that the number of the A/H1N1
influenza cases in the country has risen to
18 after six new cases were confirmed.
Nicaraguan Health Minister Guillermo
Gonzalez told reporters that most of the
patients are children from the western zone
of Managua, where the first case was
defected in a five-year-old patient.
Gonzalez said that among the 18 confirmed
cases, one was detected in the eastern zone
of Managua, which was the first one detected
outside the infection center.
All the patients are in stable condition,
added the minister.
Gonzalez said that since the epidemic alert
was decreed in the country, they have
checked 9,000 houses seeking for people
infected with the A/H1N1 virus, with the aid
of 1,200 health staff members.
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