Two cases of H1N1 (swine flu) reported in Puerto Vallarta

Puerto Vallarta.   Photo by:   Ed Walsh

Guadalajara, Jal., 8 of May of 2009 Official notice of press Good afternoon, I inform to the Town of Jalisco of the evolution of the last events of the epidemic into influenza in our State. In recent hours three Jalisco residents have passed away. The samples of these three deaths are being sent to the National Institute of Referencia Epidemiológica (INDRE), therefore, we do not have the confirmation of laboratory of the cause of its death. Nevertheless the clinical data make us think that probable it causes of the three deaths, are by affectation of the virus of influenza type A/H1N1. First of the cases it refers a woman of 24 years of Acatlán, that initiated the 29 of April with symptoms such as pain when eating and respiratory difficulty, adding May fever first. The patient goes four days after the presentation of the symptoms, the three from May to the Hospital of the Social Insurance. He passed away today, eight of May. The second refers a boy of eleven months of Guadalajara that passes away the night of day seven of May. The third party, is a man of 35 years, resident in Tlaquepaque present/display, it for its enter the General Hospital of the West, with five days of evolution in the symptoms of cough, muscular pains, rinorea, fever, corniza, call red eye, and two days with diarrhoea. When entering with five days of evolution, the medicine is provided to him, and ventilatory support is provided to him. It entered the two of May and it passed away the seven of May to the 21:00 hours. Before the happened facts it enters last night and today, I have ordered to implement the following measures: First: The suspension of educative and administrative activities in the Basic Systems of Education stays Average Superior and Superior in the State of Jalisco until the 18 of May. Secondly: It is instructed to the System for the Integral Development of Familia (DIF) so that it reinitiates operation in the Centers of Infantile Attention, incorporating personal doctor of the State System Municipal and of Health for evaluation of the children. Recommending the family parents they abstain to send to its children, unless it is to them indispensable. Third part: The temporary closing is decreed, from today and until the 18 of May, of botaneros centers, casinos, discotheques, bars, bars, cabarets, centers nocturnes and similars. Besides cinemas, theaters, sport centers of spectacles, stages, as well as any other place of relaxation or collection point in the State of Jalisco. Quarter: It is instructed to the Secretariat of Jalisco Health, makes specific to the brevity the equipment of an own laboratory with technology PCR. Fifth: It is instructed to the Secretariat of Health and the Secretariat of Planning, the publication in line, through electronic technologies, of the tie Information system to the alert epidemiologist, who will have to contain among others: the suspicious, probable and confirmed cases, as well as the deaths that appear. This information will have to be detachhed per day and municipality. Sixth: one inquires that deprived public count themselves on the sufficient medicine in the hospitals and, medicine that has proven its effectiveness when it has been administered in opportune form within the first 48 hours of the presentation of the symptoms, and that will continue free being administered to all suspicious patient. Seventh: I have well-educated to the Secretariat of Administration and the Secretariat of Health, so that it maintains the supplying of medical supplies generally sufficient to be given to the population free. Permítanme to insist: Jalisco, like all Mexico and more than 20 countries in the world, continues in Alert Epidemiologist. This is a curable disease if it is taken care of in time. In the hospitals deprived public and, it is counted on the sufficient medicine. He is indispensable to maintain in practice the preventive measures: not to salute kiss nor hand, to frequently wash the hands, and before any symptom to go to the doctor and never to automedicar itself. What it matters to us more is the health of the jaliscienses and its families. We will continue working, thank you very much by its attention.