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Paraná yields easing in the use of Tamiflu - Part I

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There are now 25 deaths caused by influenza A (H1N1), swine flu, in Paraná. The data were updated yesterday by the State Department of Health (SESA), with 21 new deaths.

The number of confirmed cases jumped from 180 reported last week to 601, with the agility permitted provided that the Central Laboratory of the Paraná (PR-Lacen) began the state examinations at the end of July.

Sao Paulo reported 13 more deaths, bringing to 50 the total in the state, and Rio de Janeiro had three more deaths. With this update, go up to 129 deaths in Brazil caused by new flu.

Of the total number of fatalities recorded so far in Paraná, most are in Curitiba and region (see map). The details of these cases will be released today in new epidemiological bulletin, which now goes out every Monday, Wednesday and Fridays.

Until yesterday, even with the confirmation of death from H1N1 in Lacen-PR, the state needed validation of the Health Ministry to disclose the deaths. Yesterday was made an informal agreement to the Paraná may disclose new deaths that arise without waiting for confirmation from the federal government.

"We do not leave the information stored in the drawer of the report. We will maintain transparency of information, "emphasized the State Secretary of Health, Gilberto Martin.

At this stage of coping with the pandemic, the virus within the country, the number of confirmed cases is not considered quite so important when in the early onset of disease. This made the Paraná yesterday announced the change in order for the examination is done.

"From now on will be collected material only severe cases that are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), requiring hospitalization or death," said Martin. The remaining cases will be done by sampling. "For the patient, the collection for the survey means very little. There is confirmation that the treatment will lead, "added Martin.

Concern

To reassure the population, Martin said at least 98% of patients who contract H1N1 will have benign and many are even asymptomatic.

"For these cases, the drug is completely unnecessary," said Martin, who expressed concern about how the population has received the data on the swine flu. "It is an instability which borders on hysteria. Someone feels fever and he already gets desperate and it does not match the size of the problem. We can not turn it into a monster bigger than it is, "he said.

Furthermore, the Secretary admitted that, until the appearance of new virus this year, anyone from 20 to 30 years, with no other health complications, died of influenza.

  "We face this situation to get the vaccine in early 2010. So, no need for drastic measures such as closing shops, because we can not keep our lives up to stop there, "he said.
Source: Paraná Online


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