Via Prensa Latina: Argentina reporta 613 muertes por virus A H1N1.[Argentina reports 613 H1N1 deaths] Excerpt, with my translation:
Según el informe, entre el 17 de mayo y el 27 de noviembre del año en curso, se reportaron un millón 399 mil 306 casos de enfermedades tipo influenza, mientras el 82,6 por ciento del total de virus respiratorios en pacientes de cinco años o más fueron del virus A.
According to the ministry report, between May 17 and November 27 of this year, 1,399,306 cases of influenza-like illness were reported, while 82.6% of respiratory viruses in patients aged 5 or older were H1N1.
En ese lapso, 13 mil 251 enfermos con infecciones respiratorias agudas graves requirieron ser hospitalizados y al margen de los 613 fallecimientos confirmados por la pandemia de influenza, otras 363 muestras están en estudio de laboratorio.
In this period, 13,251 persons with serious acute respiratory illnesses required hospitalization, and 613 were confirmed pandemic deaths; samples from another 363 cases are still being laboratory tested.
Argentina is now in late spring, when flu cases are relatively few. So it seems strange that 363 cases have still not been confirmed as H1N1 or something else. If they’re recent cases, that’s a surprising number. If they’re cases left over from months ago, and still not tested, that’s an alarming delay.
