View Full Version : Mexico City on alert!
ELVIS
04-25-2009, 06:33 AM
April, 25 2009 (http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/25/swine.flu/)
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(CNN) -- Mexican officials closed all schools Friday in the capital city in an effort to combat the swine flu virus that has killed dozens in Mexico and infected eight people in the United States.
Authorities also closed schools in Mexico in an effort to quell the virus, which has killed at least 68 people in the country, according to a statement from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico.
Other public institutions, including museums and government offices, were also closed in Mexico City.
Mexican soldiers distributed surgical masks to pedestrians and motorists in downtown Mexico City on Friday, according to state-run media.
President Felipe Calderon canceled a scheduled trip to the northern state of Chihuahua and stayed in Mexico City to address concerns on the virus.
"We know the seriousness of the problem," Calderon said. " I know that we will be able to solve this. This is our obligation."
More than 1,000 people have fallen ill in Mexico City in a short period of time, U.S. health experts said.
Health officials said they are concerned that the swine flu virus matches samples of a virus that has killed people in Mexico.
"This situation has been developing quickly," said acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Richard Besser. "This is something we are worried about."
New York health officials announced Friday they are testing about 75 students at a Queens school for swine flu after the students exhibited flu-like symptoms this week.
A team of state health department doctors and staff went to the St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens on Thursday after the students reported cough, fever, sore throat, aches and pains.
There have been no confirmed cases of swine flu there. The tests results are expected as early as Saturday.
Eight cases have been reported in the U.S. since Tuesday. Besser said all of the eight U.S. patients have recovered. Watch for more on the U.S. cases »
None of the U.S. patients had direct contact with pigs, though a patient who lives in San Diego had traveled to Mexico, the CDC said.
Besser said officials had not found common exposure or behavior among the eight U.S. patients.
"We have not seen any linkage at all between the cases in Texas and California," he said.
The new virus has genes from North American swine influenza, avian influenza, human influenza and a form of swine influenza normally found in Asia and Europe, said Nancy Cox, chief of the CDC's Influenza Division.
:elvis:
Nickdfresh
04-25-2009, 08:01 AM
I heard about this and wonder if this is the real "Bird Flu."
ZahZoo
04-25-2009, 09:33 AM
It's a variant of the swine flu.
Currently at level 3 pandemic levels and starting to see regional outbreaks in Mexico, Texas and California. Might be another regional outbreak in New York that's being investigated.
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MDApril 24, 2009 -- Mexico's deadly swine flu outbreak is caused by the same virus identified in the U.S., says CDC Acting Director Richard Besser, MD.
The CDC is analyzing 14 virus samples sent from Mexico. Seven of them, the CDC learned today, are very similar to the unusual swine flu strain isolated from U.S. patients.
Swine Flu Outbreak:
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"People are concerned about this situation," Besser said at a news conference. "We are worried as well. Our concern has grown since yesterday."
Sixty people in Mexico have died of the flu -- and so far, 16 of the deaths are confirmed cases of swine flu, news sources quote Mexican officials as saying.
World Health Organization spokesman Gregory Hartl told the Canadian news agency CBC that there have been some 800 cases in Mexico City, where schools are closed due to the outbreak.
Alarmingly, the flu outbreak in Mexico is striking healthy young people -- a pattern that would be expected if a flu virus new to humans emerged.
"Because these cases are not happening in the very old or the very young, which happens with seasonal influenza, this is an unusual event and a cause for heightened concern," Hartl said in a CBC interview.
That's not the only eyebrow-raising feature of the swine flu outbreaks. Infections have occurred in Mexico, California, and Texas -- where warm weather should mean the end of the normal flu season, says William Schaffner, MD, president-elect of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and chair of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University.
"Will we see this flu virus transmitted in the warm months? That would give us heartburn," Schaffner tells WebMD. "And is this a harbinger of things to come during our next flu season?"
Another disconcerting feature of the outbreak is that it's probably too late to contain it to limited geographical areas.
"We are seeing cases in Texas and California with no connection between them. This makes us think there has been transmission from person to person through many cycles," Besser said. "For containment we need limitation to a confined geographical area, and we have not seen that here."
The World Health Organization is convening an expert panel to determine whether to raise its pandemic flu alert level. Because of bird flu, we're at level 3. If the panel finds evidence of "increased human-to-human transmission" it goes to level 4. If there's evidence of "significant human-to-human transmission," it goes to level 5.
A pandemic will be declared only if there is "efficient and sustained human-to-human transmission" of a new flu virus. That clearly has not happened yet.
"Whether or not this [swine flu] strain causes a widespread pandemic will depend on its transmissibility among humans. That has not yet been fully elucidated, but should be shortly," Pascal James Imperato, MD, MPH, professor and dean of public health at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y., tells WebMD.
Should there be a pandemic -- something that is far from certain -- the CDC has already begun work on a vaccine. Would it be ready by next flu season?
"It would be an Olympic sprint -- a mammoth feat -- to produce a flu vaccine by October," Schaffner says.
Swine flu? Is it the 1970's again??
Blaze
04-25-2009, 02:48 PM
well.
We'll see. There would huge advantages to less people.....
Nickdfresh
04-28-2009, 03:12 AM
149 Mexicans have died...
Update (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682/?GT1=43001)
Don't panic!!!! (http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100237462>1=31036)
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Thank G-d it's happening in Mexico and not in the US!
I couldn't think of a better place to start a pandemic off ripe! :biggrin:
ELVIS
04-28-2009, 03:50 AM
So, could this be bioterrorism ??
This new swine flu virus is reported to have a mix of genes—from human, pig, and bird viruses...
How can this be, outside a laboratory ??
:elvis:
So, could this be bioterrorism ??
This new swine flu virus is reported to have a mix of genes—from human, pig, and bird viruses...
How can this be, outside a laboratory ??
:elvis:
Another fine creation of BCE Laboratories®, no doubt.
ELVIS
04-28-2009, 04:04 AM
BCE or not, i'm serious...
I've read a lot about this lately and it seems from what i've read, that a lab would be required to produce this current virus...
It's not something that could occur naturally...
:elvis:
Unless (as Jon Stewart said tonight) some guy fucked a Club sandwich, its not a likely combo of DNA, that's for sure.
hideyoursheep
04-28-2009, 04:56 AM
Disease spreads to Mexico.
Government of Mexico handing out masks to prevent infection.
Madagascar closes it's borders.
(can't help myself)
I am the Swine Flu.
I was at the library and this chinese bitch sits next to me, coughing.
Coughing. And coughing some more.
I turned around and said, "sounds like a case of the SARS to me"
She says "ugh, you are RACIST"
I laffed my ass off in her face and said "in this country, we put hand ovva mouf rike dees.." she got up stormed away
disease spreads to mexico.
Government of mexico handing out masks to prevent infection.
Madagascar closes it's borders.
(can't help myself)
lmao.......
hideyoursheep
04-28-2009, 05:22 AM
I am Swine .
I was at the library and this chinese bitch....
I couldn't get any farther than this.
Ever think that maybe she was there to enrich her mind, and that once again, you were in her seat?
Blaze
04-28-2009, 08:54 AM
I was listening to this on the news.....
And they are like... Stay home from work if you are sick....
Ummmm.....
millions of people CANNOT stay home from work if sick and miss a day's pay...
And with Walmart policies on sick days, one can lose their job if they stay home sick...
No choice on this one, but to ride it out.
I am very glad I am already comfortable using and wearing "protective clothing"
And my covers are pretty. :)
ELVIS
04-28-2009, 09:29 AM
I am very glad I am already comfortable using and wearing "protective clothing"
And my covers are pretty. :)
And your 20% Walmart discount should be beneficial...:)
ZahZoo
04-28-2009, 11:48 AM
So, could this be bioterrorism ??
This new swine flu virus is reported to have a mix of genes—from human, pig, and bird viruses...
How can this be, outside a laboratory ??
:elvis:
No big secret... just pick a filthy Mexican pig farm.
FOXNews.com - Swine Flu's Ground Zero? Residents Point to Farm - Infectious Disease (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518199,00.html)
ELVIS
04-28-2009, 12:15 PM
Wrong...
Nickdfresh
04-28-2009, 12:25 PM
The pig is one of the closer animals to humans DNA-wise...
And I didn't realize until today that there was actually a Swine Flu scare in the 1970s. (http://www.capitalcentury.com/1976.html) Incidentally, some local outbreaks are now happening...
lesfunk
04-28-2009, 02:00 PM
149 Mexicans have died...
Not exactly an emergency. 159 died last night getting caught in the fence
The pig is one of the closer animals to humans DNA-wise...
As evidenced by anything GAyR has posted this week.
Nitro Express
04-28-2009, 02:10 PM
If all the Mexicans die. Who is going to mow my lawn and paint my fence. The lazy Mexicans can die as well as the lazy American teenagers who are good for nothing. Shit. Let all the lazy people of the world die.
Guitar Shark
04-28-2009, 03:49 PM
As evidenced by anything GAyR has posted this week.
Or the disturbing rise of obesity in America...
Guitar Shark
04-28-2009, 03:57 PM
Shit. Let all the lazy people of the world die.
Sounds like I better start writing my will...
sadaist
04-28-2009, 03:58 PM
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ZahZoo
04-28-2009, 03:59 PM
Had to laugh... a buddy tells me this is all a stealth bio-attack. Infect Mexicans and knowing half a million sneak into the states every year then they infect us and we blame Mexico.
Or the disturbing rise of obesity in America...
Well, pigs eat corn. Americans eat and drink corn even when they don't realize it. So yeah, there probably is a connection there.
Sounds like I better start writing my will...
A lawyer who can't write his own will? Yeah, that IS lazy. :biggrin:
sadaist
04-28-2009, 04:23 PM
Well, pigs eat corn. Americans eat and drink corn even when they don't realize it. So yeah, there probably is a connection there.
I love how you continue the fight to bring back real sugar in my Coca Cola. Keep it up!
I love how you continue the fight to bring back real sugar in my Coca Cola. Keep it up!
It's either that or keep paying the Mexicans (via Costco) $17 a case for it. Or switching to Pepsi and/or Mountain Dew for the next 2 months. Assuming you can even find that!
Nitro Express
04-29-2009, 12:03 AM
Sounds like I better start writing my will...
If you are lazy you probably will live. Lazy people just stay home and play video games and masturbate to internet porn while the rest of us are working and/or going to school. You can't catch the flu staying home alone and masturbating but that customer or boss you would love to beat with a rubber hose or drag behind your car can give you the flu.
hideyoursheep
04-29-2009, 04:10 AM
If all the Mexicans die. Who is going to mow my lawn and paint my fence..
The lazy Mexicans can die as well as the lazy American teenagers who are good for nothing. Shit. Let all the lazy people of the world die.
...Along with the lazy motherfuckers who won't mow their own lawn, or paint their own fence.
WTF???
Blaze
04-29-2009, 04:45 AM
And your 20% Walmart discount should be beneficial...:)
That was pretty prejudicial of me....
The sick leave policies of most service industry and most retail industry will require many to to work through the most infectious stages of regular flu/s. We'll just have to ride this one out.
In a way, pandemics are just a type of natural disaster.
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