Skip on alert for flu outbreak in Bolivia
In 2012 Bolivia closed with the management report of 1,040 cases of influenza A/H1N1 and 50 cases of AH3N2
SALTA. - The Deputy Minister of Health of Bolivia, Martin Maturano , told media that to prevent hospitalizations outbreak of influenza vaccine made the request of serotypes circulating in the country to immunize the population of the flu . These serotypes are having AH3N2 influenza genes of human, avian and swine, and the virus of the H1N1 (swine flu) reported in 2009 that caused a pandemic.
"We are aware that there is concern about the epidemic outbreak in the United States, although no alert in South America. However, in 2012 Bolivia closed with the management report of 1,040 cases of influenza A/H1N1 and 50 cases of AH3N2. Although the strain is already circulating in the country, we must avoid an epidemic, "he said.
Maturano reported that Bolivia asked to provide the biological laboratories in the country, which reactualicen influenza strains circulating in the territory for which the vaccines protect people against these serotypes, ie against AH1N1, AH3N2 and Influenza B, which is the seasonal flu
