Re: Federal District: Cases 2009/04/24+
Re: Federal District: Cases 2009/04/24+
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Mexico City announces 3 more probable swine flu deaths
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MEXICO (AFP) - Three people died on Monday in Mexico City, probably due to the swine flu, which are attributed more than 150 deaths throughout Mexico, reported Tuesday that the secretary of Health in the capital, Armando Ahued.
On Monday there were three deaths, but 14 other persons who presented with symptoms of the virus were discharged the same day, the official explained in statements to the press. Ahued did not detail whether these three new deaths were carried out to determine the virological testing completely killed by the virus.
The federal government says that 152 people have died, probably by the swine flu, 20 of them confirmed. On Monday, more than 12,000 people who came with some kind of respiratory disease to medical center of the capital, the Mexican city worst hit by the swine flu.
The mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, ordered Tuesday the closure of "health clubs, sports clubs, billiards and other activities to accompany the strategy of prevention in a capital where the classrooms are not open or museum which has canceled hundreds of events.
Since the alert was triggered by the new influenza virus (flu) symptoms were examined in Mexico City on Thursday, 127 people, 210 on Friday, 351 Saturday, 326 Sunday and 320 on Monday, detailed Ebrard. "The big risk was to continue doubling the number each day as it was" virtually at the beginning of the epidemic, Ebrard said.
"The steps being taken of the population is beginning to reflect" this slight decrease in cases, said the mayor, who also said "we are at the critical time in which we must achieve as a city that is not a contagion exponential . The authorities reiterated that the drug used to combat the virus is highly effective especially in the first 72 hours. "
Mexico launches new measures Tuesday to mitigate the spread of the epidemic of swine flu that has left 152 dead likely to spread throughout the country school recess and the implementation of tens of thousands of analysis to detect the bad .
"Educational activities are suspended throughout the country from next Tuesday until May 6," said Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova on Monday.
School classes at all levels were suspended on Friday at the overcrowded Mexican capital and its suburbs, with 20 million inhabitants and the area of Latin American country most affected by the epidemic.
We have also canceled hundreds of cultural, artistic and sporting events to avoid the crowds, which provides a source of contagion. Monday night, the streets of downtown Mexico City looked empty, with restaurants closed, few cars and few pedestrians. Amid the upheaval at the spread of the virus, a strong earthquake shook the Mexican capital and the south in the afternoon of Monday.
Many capital took to the streets alarmed with the mask that is used to prevent an infection of the flu. "We are at the height of the epidemic, the number will be increased" (by contagion), Cordova said moments before the World Health Organization raised from 3 to 4, with a maximum of 6, the alert level involving potential pandemic.
In Mexico this increase warning implies a deepening of measures to mitigate the epidemic, the government will face, especially with the timely detection of the virus, which until now has found a balance of 152 cases of deaths by probable infection and 20 were confirmed.
"We could do 150,000 tests and genomic studies and from the day after tomorrow (Wednesday) we would be able to make between 500,000 and 600,000 tests," said Cordova. The official also pointed out in statements broadcast on the evening that the first case of infection of influenza emerged in the southern state of Oaxaca.
