SDPnoticias.com, Bloomberg report [machine trans., edited] <http://sdpnoticias.com/sdp/contenido/2010/07/27/4/1085305> Health authorities in El Salvador issued a flu epidemic alert, with an average of 14 000 cases a day, exceeding those of dengue fever. Health Minister Maria Isabel Rodriguez told local media that 11 of the 14 departments of the country are the worst affected by respiratory disease. According to Rodriguez, consultations in health units have increased with patients complaining of chest pain, runny nose, fever, cough and other symptoms of influenza. Even before last week, about 10 000 cases of influenza [i.e. respiratory illness] were reported daily, and in the week just ended, the figure amounted to 14 171 cases a day.
via Pandemic Information News: INFLUENZA – EL SALVADOR: ALERT.