Venezuela Swine Flu (A/H1N1), May 29 +

[Kassy]

Updated May 29, 2009 11:12 AM


CARACAS (AP) – Venezuela's health ministry is reporting the country's first swine flu case: a 22-year-old man who arrived on a flight from Panama earlier this week.
The ministry says the man is receiving the proper treatment and has been temporarily confined to his home. Officials did not identify him.
The flu victim arrived on a Copa Airlines flight from Panama late Monday. Ministry officials say the other 79 passengers on the flight are being contacted to determine their condition.
The ministry also announced on Thursday that six other people who had close contact with the patient are being closely monitored.

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx...tego ryId=200

[Kassy]

Venezuela confirms 3rd case of swine flu


Venezuelan authorities have confirmed a third case of swine flu

the mother of a young man diagnosed with the country's first case.

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http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Venezu...u-a01611887184

Weird link, esp. if you post or paste it.

[Kassy]

Health Ministry confirms 12 cases of influenza AH1N1 in Venezuela
Passengers in airplanes from US and Panama had symptoms

June 8

The Minister of Health, Jesús Mantilla, said late on Sunday to the state-run network Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) that there are 12 confirmed cases of AH1N1 in Venezuela. Apart from the four patients detected last week, in the central state of Miranda and a passenger coming from Brazil, there are other three infected people in the eastern states of Bolívar and Anzoátegui.

The number of infected patients has already reached 12, but the situation of the remaining five patients was not detailed by the top health official, in terms of their profiles and the geographical location of the cases.

In Ciudad Bolívar, the capital of the state of Bolívar, south Venezuela, a two year-old girl, who recently returned with her parents from the United States, became the first confirmed case in the state of Bolívar.

The President of the Institute of Public Health (ISP), Ana Gineth Morales, reported the case. She also said: "The girl is in isolation."

They entered the country last May 31 and, three days later, she began to have flu symptoms. "Her family reported the case, and health experts were sent to the home of the patient, took a sample and sent it to the National Hygiene Institute Rafael Rangel (INH), to be analyzed.

Each suspected case is isolated and the patient is treated with oseltamivir phosphate.

Situation in the state of Anzoátegui
In the city of Puerto La Cruz, state of Anzoátegui, northeast Venezuela, there are two confirmed cases of A H1N1, according a report provided by the governor, Tarek William Saab. He said late on Sunday that the infected people are under strict medical supervision. Saab said that they were allegedly infected by a person coming from Panamá and they are members of a family."

The cases were detected by the authorities of Urbaneja municipality, at the Municipal Hospital of Lechería. According to reports provided by this institution, the infected persons were two women: a teenager and a 20-year old woman. The authorities have contacted the passengers who took the same flight and ground connections.

http://www.eluniversal.com/2009/06/0...A2373883.shtml

[Kassy]

Venezuela confirms 7 new cases of A/H1N1 flu

Venezuelan health authorities reported seven new cases of A/H1N1 influenza on Wednesday, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 52.
Six of the new cases were people who have contacts with already infected patients, Collective Health Networks Vice Minister Nancy Perez told state-owned Bolivarian News Agency.
Venezuela confirmed its first case on May 28, a 28-year-old patient who had traveled to Panama.
Among the confirmed cases, 30 percent patients were directly infected by their sick relatives, while the rest are people who had traveled in the United States, Panama, Colombia, Argentina and Brazil.
According to Venezuelan National Institute of Hygiene, 584 cases of the 685 tested samples proved negative and 49 are still under testing.
(Xinhua News Agency June 18, 2009)

http://www.china.org.cn/health/swine...t_17974222.htm

[Kassy]

Venezuela Quarantines Cruise Ship After Crew Members Test Positive for Swine Flu

Thursday, June 18, 2009


CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela has quarantined the passengers and crew of a visiting cruise ship for 10 days after three crew members tested positive for swine flu.
Health official Jorge Alchaer says 1,219 passengers and 460 crew members of Ocean Dream are still on board. The ship is docked at Venezuela's Margarita Island, a popular Caribbean destination.
Ocean Dream is managed by Spanish tour operator Pullmantur. The passengers' nationalities were not immediately known.
Three crew members tested positive for swine flu during the cruise, which also stopped in Trinidad and Tobago. Eleven more have symptoms. The affected crew members are being examined.
Venezuela has reported 60 swine flu cases.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526989,00.html

[Kassy]

Venezuela reports 17 new cases of A/H1N1 flu

13:46, June 24, 2009


Venezuelan health authorities reported 17 new cases of A/H1N1 influenza on Tuesday, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 152.

Venezuelan Collective Health Networks Vice Minister Nancy Perez said most of the new cases were infected in the United States and Panama.

Perez said the Venezuelan government will guarantee free medical treatment to the patients and will make efforts to curb the spread of the A/H1N1 flu virus.

School activities would be canceled if there was a major health emergency, she said.

Venezuela has not registered any H1N1 flu-related death so far.

Source: Xinhua

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90...0/6685353.html

[Kassy]

Venezuela reports 222 A/H1N1 flu cases


2009-07-07 10:28:35


CARACAS, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan health authorities on Monday confirmed 222 cases of the influenza A/H1N1 in the country.
The National Institute of Hygiene said 66 patients were receiving free medical treatment and other 156 had recovered from the disease.
Nancy Perez, deputy minister for collective health networks, said that the patients had light to moderate symptoms and those first infected had a fast recovery.
Perez said that the number of patients had reduced thanks to the control, tracking and recommendations given by the health ministry.


http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...t_11666222.htm

[Kassy]

Oldie...can' find a date.

Venezuela Swine Flu Cases Hit 200


By Jeremy Morgan
Latin American Herald Tribune staff

CARACAS – The number of cases of swine influenza diagnosed in Venezuela crossed another watershed Wednesday, when Deputy Health Minister Nancy Pérez Sierra told state news agency ABN that the total had reached 200.

Unconfirmed reports on Thursday suggested that over 210 cases had been discovered across the country, a version of events to which there was no immediate reaction from the government.

News of the higher figure prompted speculation that the rate of infection might be accelerating in Venezuela as reports elsewhere suggested that the worst of the worldwide pandemic might be over.

According to Pérez Sierra, the Rafael Rangel National Hygiene Institute (INHRR) on the university campus in central Caracas had recorded 1,520 suspected incidences of swine flu, of which 1,294 had been discounted.

A further 26 cases were still being analyzed, she added. So far, there been no complications caused by pneumonia.

On the basis of individual states, the largest number of cases was in Miranda, which takes in the most heavily populated parts of the country, with 72 confirmed diagnoses to date.

Next in line were Anzoátegui with 31, Aragua, 22, and the Capital District, 16, followed by Carabobo (13), Zulia (11), Mérida (11), Nueva Esparta (six apiece), Bolívar (4) and Yaracuy (3). Two cases apiece were reported in the states of Vargas, Lara, Apure and Portuguesa, and one in Guárico.

No fatalities have been reported as a result of the disease in Venezuela since the first case was discovered in May, a young man who had returned from a trip to Panama only a few days before.

Earlier this week, Pérez Sierra announced that 50 percent of the cases diagnosed in Venezuela up to then had been of people who had recently been abroad. Of these, slightly over half had been in the United States, followed in declining order by Panama, Spain, Colombia, Curazao, Argentina, Brazil, Peru and the Dominican Republic.

Observers warned against taking the list as an indication of where it was more likely to catch swine flu. They argued that instead it rather more accurately reflected the numbers of people from Venezuela who visited those countries.


http://www.laht.com/article.asp?Arti...tegoryId=10717

Actual count is 461cases 5 deaths.