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Caracas (AFP) March 18, 2011 A second person has died from a new resurgence of swine flu in Venezuela that also infected the victim's family members, health officials said on Friday. The victim was among four family members who were infected by H1N1 in the northern state of Miranda, the local health director Gustavo Villasmil told Globovision. "The other three are recovering well," Villasmil said. Also Friday, health officials in the northern state of Carabobo reported that a women tested positive with H1N1. Earlier, a 32-year-old in the western state of Merida died from swine flu and 12 others were infected, Health Minister Eugenia Sader said Thursday. Sader said one of those who tested positive was hospitalized, with the others treating the disease at home. It may have been brought in by one of the 160,000 tourists who flocked to Merida, near the Colombian border, for a bull-fighting festival, Sader said. The 2009 global swine flu pandemic killed 114 Venezuelans, spreading quickly among the Yanomani tribe, an indigenous people in a corner of the Amazon straddling Brazil and Venezuela who at the time were recovering from malaria and flu epidemics. The swine flu -- so named because it originated in pigs-- has killed 18,500 people since emerging in Mexico in the spring of 2009, according to the World Health Organization. The world entered a "post-pandemic" phase in August 2010, with the outbreak having "largely run its course," the WHO said.
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One dead as swine flu returns to VenezuelaCaracas (AFP) March 18, 2011 At least one person has died from a resurgence of swine flu in Venezuela that infected 12 other people, Health Minister Eugenia Sader said Thursday. "We have an outbreak of H1N1 in the state of Merida," she said, adding that 12 people have tested positive for the disease and a 32-year-old has died. Sader said only one of those who tested positive had been hospitalized, with the others tr ... read more |
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