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Recovered Influenza A H1N1 Patients in Cuba Released from Hospital

CUBA, May 25, 2009. The last of four patients with the A H1N1 influenza reported in Cuba was released from hospital after a speedy recovery.

The 14-month-old Canadian boy arrived to Cuba with his parents on vacation from Toronto and was diagnosed with the virus shortly afterwards. He was recently released after a speedy recovery in the hospital, reported the Granma newspaper.

Sources from the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported on Sunday that the parents and other people who came in contact with the child were kept under epidemiologic surveillance and received prophylactic treatment with antiviral medicines. All of them were confirmed to be free of the virus.

The other three cases of influenza AH1N, three Mexican students studying Medicine in Cuba, have also been released after a satisfactory clinic evolution.

According to official sources, confirmed cases of the virus have now spread to 44 countries. As such, Cuban civil defense organisms and other agencies remain on high alert against any new cases of the virus.

MINSAP's International Sanitary Control (CSI) agency has boosted epidemiologic surveillance at national and international airports, ports and marinas.

CSI Director Angel Manuel Alvarez said that measures have been put in place in coordination with the primary care facilities of the public healthcare system to provide stricter medical surveillance of travellers. These include epidemiologic monitoring for 15 days of all travellers who arrive to Cuba to detect on time any symptoms of the flu. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

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