An 18-year-old man died, two others were hospitalized in intensive care and around a hundred people are in isolation. An “epidemic of severe acute respiratory infection, potentially due to influenza, has been noted’ at the General José Maria Cordova military cadet school in Bogotá.

The outbreak was confirmed by the Colombian military, which said in a statement Monday that ‘epidemiological fences, zone demarcations and isolation measures have been put in place’