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what I don't get is why they are making such a big deal out of it (everywhere in the media) but only seven people got sick in the US and they recovered?
oh and it's nice to know the white house "is keeping a close eye on it" since there is so much that they could do to stop a pandemic if that's what this is...
something to keep an eye on i guess
oh and it's nice to know the white house "is keeping a close eye on it" since there is so much that they could do to stop a pandemic if that's what this is...
something to keep an eye on i guess
It is live on cnn(loudobbs) right now.Not on the website yet.
I should be updated here... CDC - Influenza (Flu) | Swine Influenza (Flu) Investigation in the morning.It is updated by the CDC daily.And like idiots they are keeping the border open.
The CDC's Besser said it was probably too late to contain the outbreak. "There are things that we see that suggest that containment is not very likely," he said. Once it has spread beyond a limited geographical area it would be difficult to control.
But there is no reason to avoid Mexico, CDC and the WHO said. "CDC is not recommending any additional recommendations for travelers to California, Texas and Mexico," Besser said.
Deadly new flu strain erupts in Mexico, U.S.
Did not Obama just come from Mexico the other day....?
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Ah for testing...that could take days? Was the news jumping the gun and calling it already...probably.But then again....75 sick at once?
Its early and with so many media outlets reporting slight variations of the story we'll just have to wait and see what happens I guess. Will be interesting to see what happens in Mexico when the WHO and CDC or whoever start moving into the region to do whatever they do. There are bound to be yet undiscovered cases with the state of health care in Mexico...
Just another example of how the first intel report is usually flawed or flat out wrong.
Just another example of how the first intel report is usually flawed or flat out wrong.
WHO considers raising global pandemic alert level
HELEN BRANSWELL
Canadian Press
April 24, 2009 at 12:25 PM EDT
TORONTO — Mexican authorities today confirmed they have found human cases of the same swine flu virus that has caused illness in the southwestern United States, a development that raises questions about whether the world is watching the start of a flu pandemic.
The World Health Organization expressed serious concern, saying it is considering whether it needs to raise the global pandemic alert level and whether to launch an effort to try to contain the spread of a virus with possible pandemic potential.
“We can't say for sure that either a phase change or a rapid containment operation will happen. But both have been considered and are being considered,” spokesman Gregory Hartl said from Geneva.
“I still don't think we have enough information to be able to say that this is a pandemic or not. Because there are questions over transmissibility, let's say, of the virus. And we need to know more about how easily transmitted the virus is.”
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Heath officials concerned about mystery outbreak
Mexican doctors have confirmed 137 cases of an unidentified respiratory illness in south and central Mexico, and Canadian health officials are concerned that it could spread
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Mr. Hartl said there have been no reports of infections in any other countries to date.
Mexican authorities confirmed that samples tested both at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control tested positive for swine flu viruses. The unusual influenza A H1N1 viruses were first reported earlier this week, when the CDC announced it had found two human cases of infection with this never-before-seen virus.
Though human H1N1 viruses have been circulating for decades, it is not clear how much protection previous infection with them would confer against a virus made up predominantly of swine flu genes. The virus also has some bird genes and one human gene.
U.S. authorities have confirmed seven cases of swine flu infection in people in Southern California and Texas over the past few days. The seven range in age from nine to 54 years of age. All have recovered from the infection; one needed hospitalization.
But the news coming out of Mexico paints a different story, with reports of a fairly high attack rate and more than 20 deaths.
Reports suggest the majority of the cases are occurring in young, previously healthy adults in their mid 20s to mid 40s. There are said to have been over 800 cases so far, but it remains unclear if all of those people are sick with this virus or if other flu or respiratory viruses are also circulating and muddling the picture.
Mr. Hartl said the WHO is sending staff to Mexico to help authorities there get a better handle on the scope of the problem. “We're extremely concerned because we're looking at five different influenza events which may or may not be connected,” he said, referring to California, Texas and three possibly linked outbreaks in Mexico.
“But they are unusual events, either because of the time of the year that they happened and or because of the people that have been affected. This is a great concern to us and we have activated our strategic health operation centre which is a 24-hour around-the-clock command and control centre.”
Canada and the United States have also launched their emergency control centres, signalling this is an event they want to track around the clock.
The world is currently at level 3 of the WHO's six-rung pandemic alert ladder, because of ongoing sporadic cases of human infection with the H5N1 avian flu virus. Phase 3 means there are occasional human cases with a novel flu virus.
WHO would need the advice of an expert panel to move up to Phase 4 or beyond. Phase 6 is a pandemic.
Mr. Hartl's comments suggest that panel has been put on alert that they may be drawn together at any time.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...rnational/home
HELEN BRANSWELL
Canadian Press
April 24, 2009 at 12:25 PM EDT
TORONTO — Mexican authorities today confirmed they have found human cases of the same swine flu virus that has caused illness in the southwestern United States, a development that raises questions about whether the world is watching the start of a flu pandemic.
The World Health Organization expressed serious concern, saying it is considering whether it needs to raise the global pandemic alert level and whether to launch an effort to try to contain the spread of a virus with possible pandemic potential.
“We can't say for sure that either a phase change or a rapid containment operation will happen. But both have been considered and are being considered,” spokesman Gregory Hartl said from Geneva.
“I still don't think we have enough information to be able to say that this is a pandemic or not. Because there are questions over transmissibility, let's say, of the virus. And we need to know more about how easily transmitted the virus is.”
Videos
00:00:00.000
Heath officials concerned about mystery outbreak
Mexican doctors have confirmed 137 cases of an unidentified respiratory illness in south and central Mexico, and Canadian health officials are concerned that it could spread
Play Video
Mr. Hartl said there have been no reports of infections in any other countries to date.
Mexican authorities confirmed that samples tested both at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control tested positive for swine flu viruses. The unusual influenza A H1N1 viruses were first reported earlier this week, when the CDC announced it had found two human cases of infection with this never-before-seen virus.
Though human H1N1 viruses have been circulating for decades, it is not clear how much protection previous infection with them would confer against a virus made up predominantly of swine flu genes. The virus also has some bird genes and one human gene.
U.S. authorities have confirmed seven cases of swine flu infection in people in Southern California and Texas over the past few days. The seven range in age from nine to 54 years of age. All have recovered from the infection; one needed hospitalization.
But the news coming out of Mexico paints a different story, with reports of a fairly high attack rate and more than 20 deaths.
Reports suggest the majority of the cases are occurring in young, previously healthy adults in their mid 20s to mid 40s. There are said to have been over 800 cases so far, but it remains unclear if all of those people are sick with this virus or if other flu or respiratory viruses are also circulating and muddling the picture.
Mr. Hartl said the WHO is sending staff to Mexico to help authorities there get a better handle on the scope of the problem. “We're extremely concerned because we're looking at five different influenza events which may or may not be connected,” he said, referring to California, Texas and three possibly linked outbreaks in Mexico.
“But they are unusual events, either because of the time of the year that they happened and or because of the people that have been affected. This is a great concern to us and we have activated our strategic health operation centre which is a 24-hour around-the-clock command and control centre.”
Canada and the United States have also launched their emergency control centres, signalling this is an event they want to track around the clock.
The world is currently at level 3 of the WHO's six-rung pandemic alert ladder, because of ongoing sporadic cases of human infection with the H5N1 avian flu virus. Phase 3 means there are occasional human cases with a novel flu virus.
WHO would need the advice of an expert panel to move up to Phase 4 or beyond. Phase 6 is a pandemic.
Mr. Hartl's comments suggest that panel has been put on alert that they may be drawn together at any time.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...rnational/home
The 20% Eurasian part of the virus appears to have originally come from Thailand.
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert...t=dis&lang=eng
Situation Update No. 16
On 25.04.2009 at 03:58 GMT+2
The national laboratory in Winnipeg has confirmed human swine influenza virus in clinical specimens sent from Mexico for testing, Canada's health minister said Friday. "Today we have received … results which confirm that the virus is human swine influenza,'' Leona Aglukkaq told a press conference in Ottawa.
A handful of cases of flu-like illness in Canadian residents who recently returned from Mexico are being monitored, however, "there have been no confirmed cases of human swine influenza yet," said Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief public health officer.
Mexico sent 51 specimens for testing to Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory on Wednesday. Sixteen positives of swine flu were found among the samples. Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said Friday that 20 people were killed in the outbreak and 1,004 were infected throughout the country, prompting the World Health Organization to convene an emergency meeting Saturday.
Officials closed schools, museums and libraries in Mexico City on Friday to limit spread of the virus. Dr. Rich Besser, acting head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, said early analysis of Mexican samples of the virus showed it is very similar to those responsible for eight American cases, one confirmed Friday. All the U.S. victims have recovered.
A handful of cases of flu-like illness in Canadian residents who recently returned from Mexico are being monitored, however, "there have been no confirmed cases of human swine influenza yet," Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief public health officer, told the Ottawa press conference Friday.
Canada is working with Mexican and U.S. health officials to confirm that the virus in both countries is linked and is in fact a new strain of influenza A H1N1 human swine virus, he added. "This is an interesting virus. It's a brand new virus, not only to humans but to the world," said Dr. Frank Plummer, scientific director of the Winnipeg lab.
"About 80 per cent of the virus is highly related to a North American body of swine flu that's been around for a number of years, but about 20 per cent of it comes from an Eurasian variety of swine flu first seen in Thailand, so it's recombined to create something totally new. How it did that, where it did it, when it did it, I don't think we know yet."
WHO spokesperson Gregory Hartl said the agency needs to determine whether the outbreaks constitute an international public health threat.
Hartl also said 12 of 18 samples taken from victims in Mexico showed the virus had a genetic structure identical to that of the virus found in California earlier this week. But he said the agency needs more information before it changes its pandemic alert level, which currently stands at three on a scale of one to six.
The virus was first reported earlier this week as U.S. health officials scrambled to deal with the diagnoses of seven people with the never-before-seen strain in Texas and California. The states share a border with Mexico not far from a town where two deaths were reported. Hartl said health officials are dealing with three separate events in Mexico, with most of the cases in and around the capital, Mexico City. Most of the cases have occurred in healthy young adults, he added. "Because these cases are not happening in the very old or the very young, which is normal with seasonal influenza, this is an unusual event and a cause for heightened concern," Hartl said in an interview from WHO headquarters in Geneva.
In Canada, the advisory includes the same advice given to all travellers: Get a flu shot and take precautions such as covering coughs and staying home when sick. But it also gives locations in Mexico where cases of severe respiratory illness have occurred. However, tourists returning from Mexico who feel well don't need to see a doctor, Butler-Jones said.
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert...t=dis&lang=eng
Situation Update No. 16
On 25.04.2009 at 03:58 GMT+2
The national laboratory in Winnipeg has confirmed human swine influenza virus in clinical specimens sent from Mexico for testing, Canada's health minister said Friday. "Today we have received … results which confirm that the virus is human swine influenza,'' Leona Aglukkaq told a press conference in Ottawa.
A handful of cases of flu-like illness in Canadian residents who recently returned from Mexico are being monitored, however, "there have been no confirmed cases of human swine influenza yet," said Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief public health officer.
Mexico sent 51 specimens for testing to Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory on Wednesday. Sixteen positives of swine flu were found among the samples. Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said Friday that 20 people were killed in the outbreak and 1,004 were infected throughout the country, prompting the World Health Organization to convene an emergency meeting Saturday.
Officials closed schools, museums and libraries in Mexico City on Friday to limit spread of the virus. Dr. Rich Besser, acting head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, said early analysis of Mexican samples of the virus showed it is very similar to those responsible for eight American cases, one confirmed Friday. All the U.S. victims have recovered.
A handful of cases of flu-like illness in Canadian residents who recently returned from Mexico are being monitored, however, "there have been no confirmed cases of human swine influenza yet," Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief public health officer, told the Ottawa press conference Friday.
Canada is working with Mexican and U.S. health officials to confirm that the virus in both countries is linked and is in fact a new strain of influenza A H1N1 human swine virus, he added. "This is an interesting virus. It's a brand new virus, not only to humans but to the world," said Dr. Frank Plummer, scientific director of the Winnipeg lab.
"About 80 per cent of the virus is highly related to a North American body of swine flu that's been around for a number of years, but about 20 per cent of it comes from an Eurasian variety of swine flu first seen in Thailand, so it's recombined to create something totally new. How it did that, where it did it, when it did it, I don't think we know yet."
WHO spokesperson Gregory Hartl said the agency needs to determine whether the outbreaks constitute an international public health threat.
Hartl also said 12 of 18 samples taken from victims in Mexico showed the virus had a genetic structure identical to that of the virus found in California earlier this week. But he said the agency needs more information before it changes its pandemic alert level, which currently stands at three on a scale of one to six.
The virus was first reported earlier this week as U.S. health officials scrambled to deal with the diagnoses of seven people with the never-before-seen strain in Texas and California. The states share a border with Mexico not far from a town where two deaths were reported. Hartl said health officials are dealing with three separate events in Mexico, with most of the cases in and around the capital, Mexico City. Most of the cases have occurred in healthy young adults, he added. "Because these cases are not happening in the very old or the very young, which is normal with seasonal influenza, this is an unusual event and a cause for heightened concern," Hartl said in an interview from WHO headquarters in Geneva.
In Canada, the advisory includes the same advice given to all travellers: Get a flu shot and take precautions such as covering coughs and staying home when sick. But it also gives locations in Mexico where cases of severe respiratory illness have occurred. However, tourists returning from Mexico who feel well don't need to see a doctor, Butler-Jones said.
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