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Source: http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=327244
Google translation:
28-03-2010 / 17:30 h
(FLU AH1N1)-HEALTH SOCIETY, HEALTH
Mexico suspects that influenza A viruses came from U.S.
The minister who was in charge of the contingency stated in April last year by the outbreak of the then unknown virus called AH1N1 then said "we suspect that wine (...) United States that went through or countrymen ( immigrants) or of some tourists who brought the virus. "
"There began to be isolated cases" but did not pay much attention and as a first appointment of two children in California hospitalized for the condition of an unknown virus, which after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) described as a "virus of influenza (flu) atypical" and that later became known as AH1N1.
Alongside others in Mexico were known as atypical influenza cases were submitted in March and April, when he had spent the period of seasonal flu that occurs from December to February.
At noon on 23 April 2009 a Canadian laboratory to Mexico reported that it was an unknown animal virus (swine part) with pandemic potential, and that was the same as had been detected in children of California.
In the afternoon, in a meeting with President Felipe Calder?n and then the expanded cabinet took the decision to warn Mexicans of the presence of this new virus and social distancing measures to be taken.
Thus, classes were canceled in the capital and its surrounding state of Mexico, which together have over 20 million people, as it was spreading to other states.
For some measures were exaggerated, but Cordova said that the right decisions were taken, as long waits in the world a pandemic of H5N1, which is lethal in 60% but so far has not had the transmission capacity , although there have been cases of infection from human to human.
"They were at least fifteen days very complicated until we knew what was going to be the trend because of increased number of cases," he recalls.
Minister flatly rejects the child Edgar Hernandez, who survived the ill and whom the press called the "Child zero", was the first infected by the virus.
Before Edgar, who even gave him a monument in his hometown of Glory (Veracruz), there were other cases even in Mexico, said Cordova.
"There are many writings that have shown that in the United States had been limited outbreaks of viruses of swine origin of Influeza since 1997 and then in 2003" but did not have the transmission capacity, said.
"In America, many people were dying and was not heard. People from the Ministry of Health (U.S.) have told me that 11,000 deaths (influenza A) and the United States has ten times the population of Mexico. The 11,000 deaths were not an overnight (...) maybe did not even know what they were dying or did not recognize him, "he says.
Proud, maintains that Mexico sent on a "clear and timely" their figures, he learned the contingency without its collapsing health system and taught the world to tackle the pandemic.
Among the positive points out that it was not a virus so lethal and that the Mexican health system was "tuned" with the installation of laboratories and stocks of drugs, for possible arrival of H5N1.
In Mexico, where the date is 1032 dead and 72,233 confirmed cases of AH1N1, there is "a clear downward trend of cases" while progress has been made by 60% in the application of vaccines.
In May, the vaccine will be applied to 30 million Mexicans, joined by another 20 or 30 million that somehow came into contact with the virus. EFE gt / asc / vv
Google translation:
28-03-2010 / 17:30 h
(FLU AH1N1)-HEALTH SOCIETY, HEALTH
Mexico suspects that influenza A viruses came from U.S.
The minister who was in charge of the contingency stated in April last year by the outbreak of the then unknown virus called AH1N1 then said "we suspect that wine (...) United States that went through or countrymen ( immigrants) or of some tourists who brought the virus. "
"There began to be isolated cases" but did not pay much attention and as a first appointment of two children in California hospitalized for the condition of an unknown virus, which after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) described as a "virus of influenza (flu) atypical" and that later became known as AH1N1.
Alongside others in Mexico were known as atypical influenza cases were submitted in March and April, when he had spent the period of seasonal flu that occurs from December to February.
At noon on 23 April 2009 a Canadian laboratory to Mexico reported that it was an unknown animal virus (swine part) with pandemic potential, and that was the same as had been detected in children of California.
In the afternoon, in a meeting with President Felipe Calder?n and then the expanded cabinet took the decision to warn Mexicans of the presence of this new virus and social distancing measures to be taken.
Thus, classes were canceled in the capital and its surrounding state of Mexico, which together have over 20 million people, as it was spreading to other states.
For some measures were exaggerated, but Cordova said that the right decisions were taken, as long waits in the world a pandemic of H5N1, which is lethal in 60% but so far has not had the transmission capacity , although there have been cases of infection from human to human.
"They were at least fifteen days very complicated until we knew what was going to be the trend because of increased number of cases," he recalls.
Minister flatly rejects the child Edgar Hernandez, who survived the ill and whom the press called the "Child zero", was the first infected by the virus.
Before Edgar, who even gave him a monument in his hometown of Glory (Veracruz), there were other cases even in Mexico, said Cordova.
"There are many writings that have shown that in the United States had been limited outbreaks of viruses of swine origin of Influeza since 1997 and then in 2003" but did not have the transmission capacity, said.
"In America, many people were dying and was not heard. People from the Ministry of Health (U.S.) have told me that 11,000 deaths (influenza A) and the United States has ten times the population of Mexico. The 11,000 deaths were not an overnight (...) maybe did not even know what they were dying or did not recognize him, "he says.
Proud, maintains that Mexico sent on a "clear and timely" their figures, he learned the contingency without its collapsing health system and taught the world to tackle the pandemic.
Among the positive points out that it was not a virus so lethal and that the Mexican health system was "tuned" with the installation of laboratories and stocks of drugs, for possible arrival of H5N1.
In Mexico, where the date is 1032 dead and 72,233 confirmed cases of AH1N1, there is "a clear downward trend of cases" while progress has been made by 60% in the application of vaccines.
In May, the vaccine will be applied to 30 million Mexicans, joined by another 20 or 30 million that somehow came into contact with the virus. EFE gt / asc / vv
