Published On: Fri, Nov 20th, 2009

Influenza A has claimed 115 people living in Spain

Twenty-seven people have died in the last week of causes related to the H1N1 virus.

A total of 115 people have died so far in Spain for causes related to influenza A, twenty-seven more than the previous week, as reported Thursday the Ministry of Health and Social Policy, which has indicated that the mortality rate stands at 0.14 deaths per thousand affected by the virus.

The estimated rate of influenza in primary care clinic during the week of 8 to 14 November have been of 359.85 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants, while the rate of the previous week was 327.92 cases. Minister for Health and Social Policy, Trinidad Jimenez, had already announced in recent days during the months of November and December could be a peak of infection of about 400 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants.

Last week could have produced 160,807 cases of clinical influenza, of which 96.42 percent had positive results for the new influenza virus A (H1N1), so that the number of new cases of influenza would be about 155,051.

Health has stated that nearly all cases present with a mild and respond to conventional treatments.

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