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South concerted efforts to address influenza A (H1N1)

Buenos Aires, July 15 (PL) Ministers of Health of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay will meet today in this capital to assess the progress of the virus A (H1N1) the whole area and confront the pandemic.

As anticipated sources of health portfolio in Argentina, the meeting will begin at 13:30 local time at the Palacio San Martín, where he will present a detailed report on the progress of the new type of influenza in each of these countries. Attendees seek

harmonize containment and mitigation measures set forth in their respective nations, and address the issue of equitable access to vaccines specific to this virus when they are available on the market.

Another issue to be addressed is the definition of a common strategy to move the epidemiological information regarding cases of influenza virus.

The representative of the Pan American Health Organization in Argentina, Antonio Pagés, participants reported the findings of a forum on the pandemic made days earlier in Mexico under the auspices of WHO. At today's meeting will bring together all the portfolio holders for Argentina, Juan Manzur, Bolivia, Ramiro Tapia, Brazil, José Gómez, Chile, Alvaro Erazo, Paraguay, Esperanza Martínez, and Uruguay, María Julia Muñoz.

When you have a little more than a month since the World Health Organization raised its alert level to phase 6 pandemic in 133 countries were more than 114 000 confirmed cases of influenza A, with 609 deaths.

In South America there were more than 16 000 infected, most of them in Chile (nine thousand 549) and Argentina (3056), where 27 and 137 people, respectively, died from the disease.

The other nations of the area where patients died from the virus A (H1N1) are Uruguay (15), Peru (5), Paraguay (3) and Brazil (2).

In Argentina, the two provinces with the highest number of deaths are those of Buenos Aires (69 dead and 874 infected) and Santa Fe, where 42 deaths were reported and 156 patients infected with influenza virus.

City of Buenos Aires has 11 deaths from the new Influenza A (H1N1), a condition which is little more than a thousand cases confirmed.

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SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA