I’ve just added a new blog to the Influenza: español list: Influenza A en Venezuela. Its latest post: Casos confirmados de Gripe AH1N1 en Venezuela. [Confirmed cases of H1N1 in Venezuela]
The table from the Directorate of Epidemiological Surveillance says that 2,742 H1N1 cases have been confirmed, and 2,235 cases have been “de alta epidemiologia”–which I take to mean cases requiring intensive care. And 121 of the confirmed cases have resulted in death.
That looks like a 4.4 percent case fatality ratio, far higher than most countries have reported. More likely, they’re testing only the critically ill, and a huge number of Venezuelan H1N1 cases have gone unnoticed, undiagnosed, and unreported.
