Swine Flu Outbreak In Mexico Has Killed 60 and Sickened 1000
Officials say that the Swine Flu Outbreak In Mexico Has Killed 60 and Sickened 1000 and the outbreak has led health officials in the United States to believe there is a connection with seven known cases of a novel swine flu infection in California and Texas.
Swine flu is usually diagnosed only in pigs or with people who have regular contact with them.
‘As a precaution to avoid further contamination, schools and universities in Mexico City and the state of Mexico were closed Friday and the schools may remain closed for a while,’ stated the national health secretary, Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos.
According to the World Health Organization, WHO, Fifty-seven people have died in Mexico City and another three people have died in other Mexican cities. Sixteen of the deaths were from a new type of influenza virus and another 45 cases are considered suspicious.
WHO are investigating the cases of 943 people suffering from a viral infection, the health minister said. The World Health Organization has reported that 800 people have fallen ill.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon canceled a trip Friday to northern Mexico so he could remain in Mexico City, to monitor the situation. Calderon met with his Cabinet on Thursday night to discuss the outbreak.
In the United States, seven cases of a previously undetected strain of swine flu have been confirmed in humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Officials say that all of the patients have recovered. None of the patients had direct contact with pigs.
According to Dr. Anne Schuchat, the CDC’s interim deputy director for science and public health program, Five of the cases were found in California, and two in Texas, near San Antonio.
The Mexican samples will be tested at the centers based in Atlanta, Georgia and in Canada. The samples were taken from an affected area just north of Mexico City.
Stay out of Mexico right now, Baby Boomers…Mexico has been placed on a travel alert.
The Public Health Agency of Canada issued a respiratory alert for Mexico on Wednesday, recommending that health providers “actively look for cases” in Canada, particularly in people who’ve returned from Mexico within the last two weeks.
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i have a comment about the swine flu. why is it that the owners of these hogs or pigs don’t test their animals before they slaughter them. shouldn’t someone be getting in trouble for selling harmful food to the public. this food is endangering people as well as children health. is this part of the medical system to keep people in bad health or is this part of environmental science to help limited the population. could someone please answer at least one of these questions.
04/24/2009
Dr. Mr. Cooper, I just hear you chief medical correspondet Dr. Gupta state that the swine virus is new. I was immunized for the swine flu in 1977 or 1978. My commander in chief at that time was the first person to be immunized in the U.S.
Please tell Dr. Gupta that we had to deal with the swine flu in the past.
This to shall pass…The poor hotels are really suffering…Maybe the flu is caused by their beans…Just kidding.
I couldn’t agree more with Theresa we do in the United States because I used to live in the Mid West and they do there but we are speaking about a third world country and they don’t have a lot of money.
Talking about testing food why doesn’t the United States tell the population about the truth about High- Fructose Corn Syrup having high levels of Mercury in it maybe they are afraid of companies going out of business like Campbells Soup Company that has it in most of their soups. I found it in Corn Flakes and all Pepsi and many more things like Chicken Noodle soup. I had such a severe reaction I thought I was going to die. I started to bleed from my rectum so badly that I thought I was going to call 911. As soon as I stopped the bleeding went completely away like a stepped on a botton. If you have children PLEASE don’t feed this poison to them because it could cause a lot of problems.
Another thing that you probably never thought of The United States has to stop adding Triclosan Chemical and Triclocarban to our soap, children’s toys, clothes.
It is also in antibacterial soaps and many more things that can cause many serious problems. It can be in makeup, antiperspirents it can cause very serious reaction on your skin and go into your body through what you use.
The soap my husband used to use he would break out in a rash and didn’t know that his soap was causing it until I found out this information and he stopped using it the moment he found out and the rash has almost disappeared. He is now using the soap from Shaklee and what a difference it has made.
Everybody that reads this please look this up for yourself and stop eating High-Fructose Corn Syrup because of the Mercury and stop using the soap that has those two (2) chemicals because the danger.
Canada has stopped those chemicals because the danger of humans using them but the United States refuses to stop using them go figure maybe they want the doctors not to lose patients.