Ethel Trejos, the director of epidemiological surveillance at the Ministerio de Salud (Health Ministry) confirmed that according to the latest results Costa Rica will not be hit by a second wave of the AH1N1 flu virus as had been expected before.
The director explained that the current strain of the virus in Costa Rica is different than that of last year and that No NEW deaths have been attributed to the virus.
50 people lost their lives to the AH1N1 last year.
The minister de Salud, María Luisa Ávila, says that the first to receive the vaccine are those in the high risk group: hypertense, diabetics, obese and pregnant.
Ávila explained that 1.7 million Costa Ricans will be vaccinated against the swine flu virus as soon as the vaccine is available in the country. The vaccinations will be free of charge. Read more »
As of today, Costa Rica has only nine confirmed cases. but the health ministry says that five more cases are probable. Three of those cases are persons who had been in contact with the Boston Canta Mundi choir.
So far out of the suspected 873 cases, 735 have been discarded in Costa Rica.
In spite of all the scare, the World Health Organization believes that this particular pandemic has nothing to do with the severity of the disease, but rather with its geographic spread, and so far, it has been relatively mild.
Source: World Health Organization
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February 23, 2010 5:26 pm
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