Influenza "E1N1" .. The clinic in which a woman died in Casablanca is not included in the epidemiological surveillance system

The Director of Epidemiology and Disease Control at the Ministry of Health, Mohamed Al-Youbi, said in Rabat Tuesday that the clinic in which a woman died in Casablanca had spread information that he was infected by the disease "S1N1" not included in the epidemiological surveillance system.

He explained that the health centers, hospitals and private clinics under this system are the structures that are likely to know the quality of certain varieties of mobile seasonal influenza viruses, noting that the number of hospital facilities under this system is national level is eight. Hospitals and 375 health centers, including 12 clinics.

He also pointed out that "these structures provide information to the Ministry of Health, and the analysis of some people who doubt the possibility of an infection with the flu, which allows to know the class of influenza transmitted during a season, the purpose of the epidemiological surveillance system is to track the spread of disease and knowledge of the type of epidemic transmitted. "

According to the same official, Morocco is involved in the global influenza surveillance system. "The ministry is striving to provide the World Health Organization with the data we have and the types of viruses detected in our labs, which allows the organization every year to provide businesses with The vaccine is produced to adapt to the type of disease transmitted during a given season. "

The epidemiological surveillance system "allows us to identify the type of virus that has spread during the season and then match it to the type of vaccine prepared, which the World Health Organization offers to drug manufacturers to market. in different parts of the world ".

The second measure, according to Yupi, is to take additional measures to protect the most vulnerable people, in anticipation of the 2006 influenza epidemic, which led to the spread of Type A virus transmitted to humans by humans. birds.

He stressed the need to respect the means of prevention of this disease, especially through simple means related to lifestyle, such as avoiding crowded places, low ventilation and hand washing, emphasizing that the best Prevention of the use of the vaccine every year is due to the virus, especially type "A". , Has the property to gradually change the genetic composition from one year to another.

He said that the flu is a disease caused by a virus that affects the trachea and that it spreads quickly, especially in the winter. So we usually call it seasonal flu from the beginning of winter. It is easily transmitted, explaining that its clinical properties are often benign, Can sometimes be accompanied by severe symptoms in some immunodeficient persons.