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Mexico: AH1N1 confirmed March 11th in lab

Shiloh

Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.terra.com.mx/articulo.aspx?articuloId=820870&ref=1

Google translation:
Virus strain AH1N1
Copyright ? EFE

According to report

On March 11 began the symptoms of the first case confirmed by laboratory tests

05/05/2009 | Terra.es-MEXICO-The Mexican government found that from March 11 the new influenza virus was circulating in the country.

The report "Outbreak of Influenza A H1N1 Human", the General Directorate of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health, highlighted by a graphic that began that day symptoms first case confirmed by laboratory tests.


At that time, the National Center of Epidemiological Surveillance and Disease Control (Cenavece) had detected outbreaks of "probable influenza in Huamantla, Tlaxcala, the April 10, in Panh, Hidalgo, on April 11 and in La Gloria, Veracruz, on April 11.

The latter was identified by the Ministry of Health as the source of the first confirmed case, the child's Edgar Hernandez.

The following case was confirmed by the authorities introduced until March 17 and was from April 12 that the cases began to grow rapidly.

The days that were more confirmed cases, slightly more than 80, was April 22.

The day after the federal Health Ministry said the public alert and epidemiological determination was made to suspend the activities in school buildings of the Federal District and the State of Mexico at all levels of education.

Since then the number has dropped to about 20 present the April 28.

In a review of 16 cases with confirmed diagnosis, the unit found that patients take several days to receive medical attention.

"Four of the eight survivors were hospitalized within three days after onset of fever, but all seven deaths were hospitalized more than three days after onset of fever.

"Of those killed, the onset of fever to death lasted 7-9 days," the report said.
In another paragraph, the General Directorate of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health, examines the daily number of hospitalizations for acute respiratory infections, which emerge from last April 16 and 30 begin to descend from the same month.

Until the afternoon of May 3, the Ministry of Health study 86 deaths were considered suspicious of H1N1 by fever and cough or odynophagia (painful swallowing).

Of those classified as suspicious deaths, 54 occurred in the Federal District, 8 in the State of Mexico, 7 in San Luis Potosi, Aguascalientes 1, 1 in Baja California, Durango 1, 1 in Hidalgo, Michoacan 1, 1 Nuevo Leon, and 11 did not specify the place of death.

According to the document of the unit, between 2 and May 3, the number of confirmed cases rose by 84, while from 3 to May 4 in 137 cases.


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