Moroccan Health Minister announces five deaths from swine flu

Rabat – The Moroccan Minister of Health announced the registration of five cases of deaths from influenza "Ash-1" 1 – pigs – injured by people in precarious situation, while the director of a hospital Casablanca suffered 20 injuries, including a seriously ill child.
Health Minister Anas Doukkali said H1N1 flu is the most common type of virus in the world and his ministry "will continue its efforts in the context of epidemiological vigilance".
He added that among the three subtypes of normal influenza, influenza A / H1N1, influenza A / 3N2 and B "flu", influenza A "1" 1 "is the creeping subspecies this year, as the remain the states of the world ".
He said that health centers, hospitals, clinics and clinics, which informed the department of the results of clinical and viral surveillance, revealed that on 20% of people with influenza or respiratory infections , 97% had influenza A, 80% (H1N1), and that "this is the norm and the global trend for the current year," he said, recalling that previous years had recorded high.
He pointed out that influenza A (H1N1) has become a "human flu", pbading from one person to another, but that it is "less dangerous" since 2011. "He regretted that in this flu season, and unfortunately, we can record deaths ", At the level of public and private health structures, five deaths were reported, mainly people in situations of fragility.
The minister called on citizens to be more vigilant on the part of these people, including the elderly, children aged six months to five years, pregnant women and people with chronic illnesses, diabetes, diabetes, and diabetes. hypertension, cardiovascular disease, kidney and respiratory failure, and Follow a "health system" by washing your hands several times a day, avoiding people with seizures and using paper towels.
He added that the Ministry of Health had advised these people to vaccinate against the flu during the campaign that began in the fall and continued. He called the wounded who could deteriorate to "go as soon as possible to consultations, clinics, health centers and hospitals nearby, And that his ministry continues the daily epidemiological alert at the 375 health centers in order to follow the course of the flu and that, until the first Thursday, the evolution was normal compared to previous years, although there was a delay of two weeks in stronger the epidemic without exceeding the epidemic threshold of previous years.
Laboratory badyzes and data on 541 samples badyzed up to 20 January 2019 at the National Reference Laboratory of the Ministry of Health clearly show that the epidemiological situation is similar to that recorded internationally and that the epidemiological situation is similar to that recorded internationally. badysis of data and data for the 2018 -2019 season The start of the influenza pandemic season is relatively slow, from December 17 to 23, 2018, and the peak of the pandemic flu in general occurred on the second week of last month.
Dr. Hisham Afif, director of Ibn Rushd University Hospital in Casablanca, said 20 children had been admitted to hospital for the "AS1N1" flu, including one case for a child called ICU. The hospital's recovery service also welcomed two adults. "Because of their chronic illness, they have doubled the impact of A1N1 influenza on their health condition.
Afif said that with the exception of the child in the recovery section, the rest of the children were in normal rooms, some of whom had left the hospital, and that the wounded children had been referred from the children's section.