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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
Frenchiegirl, I can't follow the links to the original statements
Frenchiegirl, I can't follow the links to the original statements
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
Sally: I have no trouble opening them.
Let me try without the link codes
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
In Spanish: http://www.notisistema.com/noticias/?p=174801
Notisistema Informa
Descarta Relaciones Exteriores sellar fronteras ante brote de influenza
La situaci?n est? bajo control por lo que no habr? necesidad de sellar fronteras, sostuvo el subsecretario de Relaciones Exteriores para Am?rica Latina y el Caribe, Salvador Beltr?n del R?o, al responder a la prensa del tema de la influenza que se registra en el Distrito Federal y que ha colocado a M?xico en el mundo como el pa?s en estado de alerta.
Abordado en exclusiva luego de la clausura de la Primera Cumbre Mesoamericana de Enfermedades Transmitidas por Vectores y Enfermedades de Rezago en Tuxtla Guti?rrez, apunta: ?No, no, yo creo que todo est? bajo control y se est? coordinando el Gobierno federal de la mejor manera posible?. (Por Cosme V?zquez)
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Notisistema Informa
Foreign discarded before sealing borders outbreak of influenza
The situation is under control so no need to seal borders, said Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs for Latin America and the Caribbean, Salvador Beltran del Rio, responding to press the issue of influenza that is registered in the Federal District and that has put Mexico in the world as the country on alert.
Addressed only after the end of the First Summit of Mesoamerican vector-borne diseases and diseases of Backwardness in Tuxtla Gutierrez, says: "No, no, I think everything is under control and is coordinating the federal government the best as possible. " (For Cosme V?zquez)Comment
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
Clarified that the 68 deaths, 20 are found to have occurred due to influenza virus type and pig mutual Eurasian that was transported by an individual who traveled to that region.
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so, they found the source ???
and WHO,CDC,... didn't tell us
European swine virus jumped to human in Europe
(no reports that this happened since emergence in 1980, AFAIK)
then traveled to Mexico, another human got it and another swine virus
together --> reassortment ???
sounds unlikely
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He explained that it is similar to a virus that attacked in 1976 in the state of Wisconsin in United States, but that did not spread to cause a pandemic.
----------------------------------I'm interested in expert panflu damage estimates
my current links: http://bit.ly/hFI7H ILI-charts: http://bit.ly/CcRgTComment
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
Source: http://www.notisistema.com/noticias/?p=174815
Los pr?ximos 10 d?as ser?n cruciales para detener la influenza: GDF
(Haga clic en la fuente de audio por encima en espa?ol)
(Click on the source above for audio in Spanish)
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The next 10 days will be crucial to stop the flu: GDF
Recognizes the Government of the Federal District that the next ten days will be crucial to stop the swine influenza affecting four thousand capital, so the staff of 220 clinics and 18 hospitals will work overtime to meet the people.
Installed modules and provision of care mask at all times of the Metro, Metrobus and other, explains the health secretary of Mexico City, Armando Ortega Ahued.
"We suspended all public events where people are concentrated, especially in enclosed spaces."
Indeed, the authorities recognize that the flu is concentrated in Ecatepec and Texcoco, Estado de Mexico, in the Iztapalapa Delegation in Mexico City. (By Hector Garcia)Comment
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
4000 capital(s) affected?Originally posted by Shiloh View Post
in few weeks, and this country isn't quarantined ...
So the other countries give up to any containment efforts
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday it was too late to contain the swine flu outbreak in the United States.
CDC acting director Dr. Richard Besser told reporters in a telephone briefing it was likely too late to try to contain the outbreak, by vaccinating, treating or isolating people.
"There are things that we see that suggest that containment is not very likely," he said.
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
Tropical: I think perhaps they might mean 1,400 people (my dictionary is buried in a cardboard box in the cellar)Comment
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
Thanks Anne, and researchers,Originally posted by Anne View Post
but such loosing the war without any fight is outrageous.
The main official health inst. must knows from the begining and all the media but ft were mute.
That is realy bad practice, no matter the supposed medium intensity pandemic, which is doubtful because of the previously reported high insurgence of respiratory arrests need ventilation.
Dr. Niman was right.
This is indeed skipping to phase 6 because of the above.
And all this gone smoothly faded with few lines of news at the same time when many other ordinary news and soaps screams from the TV media.Comment
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
Well maybe, but after the Anne posted CDC admission of the state of the matter, and the traffic between the cities, if not capitals, later this would obviously happens ...Originally posted by FrenchieGirl View PostComment
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
CDC acting director Dr. Richard Besser told reporters in a telephone briefing it was likely too late to try to contain the outbreak, by vaccinating, treating or isolating people.
Does this mean they are just going to let it run its course then, and sod the consequences.Comment
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
Precisely, and not only them, but the others also, and without bombastic releases.Originally posted by vinny View Post
The "you are on your own" now became reality.
Well, maybe somebody out there would still try to do something for all those masses, or the virus deminish its harmingComment
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
Will Swine Flu Panic Spread Beyond Mexico?
By Ioan Grillo / Mexico City Friday, Apr. 24, 2009
People cover their faces with scarfs to protect themselves from the swine flu virus at the Mixcoac health center in Mexico City.
Fernando Navarette fingers his blue mouth mask and eyes other customers suspiciously at the juice stand as he orders a special anti-flu cocktail of pineapple, guava and honey. "I want to get the vitamins in me and then get back home," says the 37-year-old graphic designer, carefully keeping his distance. "I don't want to be in the street any longer than necessary and risk bringing the virus into my house. I have young children to worry about."
Fears of getting a killer bug are sweeping across the Mexican capital as reports erupted about an epidemic of swine influenza that is said to have killed dozens in recent weeks. The government ordered all schools and universities in Mexico City shut and advised people to pull their children out of nurseries and avoid busy places such as restaurants, bars and cinemas. Pharmacies rapidly sold out of hygienic masks and vitamin supplements. Many clinics stuck signs on their doors advising they had run out of influenza vaccines. (See pictures from the last outbreak of bird flu.)
News of the flu had been lingering for several days but surged to national attention late Thursday after a televised announcement from Federal Health Minister José Angel Córdova. "With the information obtained this afternoon, we have before us the threat of a new type of influenza," Cordova said, announcing the first total school closures over the urban area of 20 million since the 1985 earthquake. Mexican authorities said there had been 20 deaths confirmed from the virus in recent weeks, mostly healthy adult men and women, who were in groups not normally considered vulnerable. Then panic increased to fever pitch on Friday when the World Health Organization upstaged the Mexican government by saying that 60 deaths may have been caused by the virus. (Check out a story on how long flu immunity lasts.)
Sources concurred that the virus originated from pigs and mutated into some form that jumped to humans. That raised the terrifying prospect that humans could be completely unresistant to it, potentially leading to a pandemic. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 to 1919 killed about 50 million people. The most recent pandemic was the Hong Kong flu that killed about 1 million people from 1968 to 1969. "We are very, very concerned," WHO spokesman Thomas Abraham said, according the AP. "We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human." WHO convened an emergency meeting on Friday and activated money and personnel to dealing with the outbreak. "It's all hands on deck at the moment." Abraham said. (Read a story about the fear of bird flu.)
Mexican President Felipe Calderón cancelled a trip to the northern state of Chihuahua and called his cabinet ministers, state health chiefs and even senior military commanders to an emergency meeting on Friday. The Mexico City government initially had about 400,000 doses of vaccine left after the influenza season, which normally lasts from December to March. However, these were being used exclusively for medical personnel across the nation's hospitals, where hundreds of people with flu symptoms were being treated. The Mexican federal government was also reported to be handing out a million flu vaccines to the public. But it was still unclear if the vaccines would be effective against this new strain.
It was also unclear how much the virus had spread outside of Mexico. At least seven non-lethal cases of a swine virus had been reported in Texas and California (the U.S. cases seem to be susceptible to antiviral treatment; and, in a hopeful note for Mexicans, preliminary tests show 14 samples from Mexico to be identical to the American strain). Canadian officials have also found the swine virus in one tourist returning from Mexico.
A Canadian travel advisory Thursday held back from telling people not to go to Mexico but advised Canadians to get flu shots and warned which Mexican states the virus had been detected in, which include Mexico City, Mexico State, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí and Oaxaca.
Despite some panic buying, there are no immediate signs of anyone fleeing Mexico City. Shop owner Humberto Garcia says that he is not worried about getting the virus himself. "I'm strong, I'll resist it," he says, flexing his arm muscles. Architect Maria Aguilera, 31, is also unmoved. "People are just freaking out a bit," she says. However, government worker Victor Mondragon, 45, says he may vacate the city in the next few days. "I want to see how bad this thing is," he says. "If thousands start dropping dead, then I am going to run for my life."
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
Source: http://www.nssoaxaca.com/index.php/c...enza-en-oaxaca
Reportan nueve casos de influenza en Oaxaca
Escrito por El Universal
Viernes, 24 de Abril de 2009 17:35
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Reported nine cases of influenza in Oaxaca
Written by El Universal
Friday, April 24, 2009 17:35
Juchit?n Oax., April 24 .- At various hospitals in the Oaxacan entity served nine cases of people with symptoms of influenza, the authorities reported to the health sector.
On April 13, the authorities acknowledged the death of a woman 39 years of age in the civilian hospital "Aurelio Valdivieso, the capital of Oaxaca, which presented the symptoms of" atypical pneumonia ".
Since that date was declared an epidemiological surveillance in all health sector hospital in the state.
According to the health sector in the coming days will apply in the state immunization program, which will begin between doctors and nurses in hospitals.
Oaxaca also has over four thousand cases of chickenpox, mostly among children enrolled in basic education.
Besides the presence of influenza and chicken pox, in the state of Oaxaca have registered 90 cases of dengue, of which six are classified as hemorrhagic.Comment
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Re: Mexico: Swine Flu & Other Respiratory Illnesses - Including Mexico City & Oaxaca
#273: " Will Swine Flu Panic Spread Beyond Mexico"
The reporter could named it better: "How Far Will Swine Flu Virus Spread",
the panic cames after ...Comment
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