There are two cases of H1N1 influence in children, in Misiones – Noticiasdel6.com

The Minister of Public Health confirmed Walter Villalba, although the provincial Ministry of Public Health has still not published a medical report detailing what happened in both cases. The first information we had was about an 8-year-old boy admitted to the pediatric hospital, which "is not a complicated case, the child is stable," Villalba explained in press releases. Press. The small and contagious in Mexico. Meanwhile information on the baby aged one year, also with the influence H1N1 who is in intensive therapy of the Pediatric Hospital of Posadas.

The Minister said that "there is a viral circulation but we have good vaccination rates, seen and considering that the number of critical and severe cases is quite lower than those which meant d & # 39; Other years. "

Confirm the first pediatric case of influenza A

The 8-year-old boy was not vaccinated, because he was not part of the at-risk group , and he is investigated if the girl was there. Samples of both have been sent to the Malbrán Institute of Buenos Aires to confirm the diagnosis, but the public health laboratory is also able to do so.

The two cubs are from Posadas. But the 8-year-old boy had returned from Del Carmen beach, where he was on vacation with his family.

Villalba said the virus in circulation comes from the strain of the 2009 pandemic, but that vaccines applied in the southern hemisphere contemplate this strain and that modified later. Something that did not happen in the northern hemisphere.