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The councilman of Health of the City of Abarán, M ª Carmen Turner, accompanied by Eduardo Carrasco, Medical Family Health Center Abarán, offered late on Tuesday a press conference to inform and reassure the public about flu outbreak swine.
M ª Carmen Tornero said that the outbreak appeared in Mexico and South America and the transmission is by contact.
Further noted that the symptoms "are almost identical to those of flu: headache, high fever, coughing, sneezing, diarrhea or vomiting."
As the Ministry of Health noted, "if you have been in contact with people who have traveled to Mexico should call 112 where a medical team that will indicate the steps that must follow from that moment," Turner recalled.
The councilman of Health transmitted a message of reassurance to the public as there is a treatment to combat the disease.
"It's important that people know that there is treatment for this disease and that there are some specific antivirals to combat this virus," he said.
It also added that "it is not appropriate that we are scared but we follow the preventive measures and care for personal hygiene as it is found that hand washing can be effective against infection."
"With regard to the flu," he continued, will receive daily information from the Ministry of Health to midnight and from the Ministry of Health of the Autonomous Community of Murcia at six o'clock. "
M ª Carmen Turner pointed out how effective and coordinated work of all organs of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Health, in this situation.
For its part Eduardo Carrasco, MD Family Health Center Abarán, completed this explanation and added that when a disease outbreak or epidemic, the World Health Organization issued a warning, along with the American Center for Infectious Diseases and this has been the case.
"We detected a swine flu virus that dates from 1930 and what has happened is that this virus has mutated and has become infectious to people," he stressed.
"I do not want to be alarmist because there is no reason for it," he continued, "is a virus that has developed in Mexico and even in Spain there have been some cases they have all been associated with people or with a trip to these states in which the virus has developed an epidemic, "he noted.
The doctor explained that we must be vigilant but at the moment in Spain have come twelve cases of which only two have been positive and have occurred in people who have traveled to the country of origin of the virus.
"There is a treatment for this disease but we must bear in mind that the symptoms are similar to those of normal flu," said Carrasco.
Eduardo Carrasco said "we now have a mini-epidemic in the Ricote Valley area, with a picture very similar to what could be an outbreak of swine flu, although we can all have a cold and therefore not going to suffer."
The family physician reported that the "difference of symptoms is very broad" and recalled that the Ministry of Health has reported that "to make a diagnosis should be given for being in contact with a person who has traveled to Mexico or suspect the patient has traveled to Mexico. "
Carrasco said that the epidemic is spread from person to person by air or by direct contact between the hands, but never transmitted by pork.
"I tell the people of Abarán you can eat pork quietly," he said.
Eduardo Carrasco also conveyed a message of reassurance to the public, as the Councillor for Health, because "it works through a global network and whatever comes we will know the Internet."
The doctor stated that level 4 has been given to the epidemic is for preventive measures.
He said that antivirals are effective and that it is developing a vaccine that is available to users during the coming months.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Abarán
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