Venezuela
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Over Swine Flu
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Venezuela Asks
People To Keep Calm
Over Swine Flu
Caracas - The Venezuelan
health authorities made a call Thursday to
the people to keep calm as there has been no
registered confirmed cases of influenza H1N1
in the country so far.
Venezuelan Health and Social Protection
Minister Jesus Mantilla said that the
government is ready to assist any situation
of epidemic alert due to the spread of the
flu in many countries.
Mantilla said that protection measures were
reinforced at ports, airports and border
points in the country in order to impede the
virus to arriving Venezuela.
"Due to the experiences from our Mexican
brothers and due to the alert of the World
Health Organization (WHO), we are prepared
for any situation and we have equipment and
resources to give a response on time,"
Mantilla said.
"To the moment, Venezuela does not have any
case of human flu," Mantilla said. Mantilla
added that the National Institute of Hygiene
"Rafael Rangel" in Caracas has evaluated 13
samples and all of them were negative. |
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