Nicaragua: Nearly Two Thousand Infected with AH1N1
September 28th, 2009 | by admin |Nearly two thousand people are infected with A(H1N1) in Nicaragua just four months after the first case was reported.
According to the Health Ministry (Minsa), 1,999 people were affected by this pandemic, 962 of them are cured, 9 died and 28 are receiving medical treatment.
According to Guillermo Gonzalez, head of Minsa, 48 percent of those infected are located in the capital (921) followed by Masaya with 224 cases, Esteli with 186 cases, Matagalpa with 118, Leon with 93, Carazo with 73 and Granada with 60 cases. These are city highly populated, which favors the dissemination of respiratory diseases.
The most vulnerable group is young people in the ages of 20 to 34 years, with 25 percent of those infected.
On the other hand, authorities intensify the fight against dengue fever outbreaks.
Health Minister stated that also there is circulating dengue virus 3 which brings about a higher risk of infection, especially to people that already has been infected with dengue classic virus. They may be affected with dengue hemorrhagic fever.
