Swine Flu Thousand Cases
Posted by admin | Posted in infection | Posted on 01-07-2009
A pandemic second quarter of 2009 outbreak of influenza A (H1N1) virus is a
new strain of influenza virus identified commonly referred to as Swine Flu
confirmed cases topped almost 6,000 individuals, as Belgium became the
latest European nation to be hit by the influenza A(H1N1) virus. World
Health Organization (WHO) officials said the number of cases of influenza
A(H1N1) stood at around 6,000 and nearly 7,000 in more than 30 countries,
with more than 60 people having died from the disease.
Cases were first discovered in the U.S. and officials soon suspected a link
between those incidents and an earlier outbreak of late-season flu cases in
Mexico. In less than a week hundreds of suspected cases, some of them
serious, were discovered in Mexico. Soon thereafter, the WHO along with
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expressed concern that
the A(H1N1) could become a worldwide flu pandemic, and WHO then raised its
pandemic disease alert level to “Phase 5″ out of the six maximum, as a
“signal that a pandemic is at about to happen level”.
More than three thousand cases of infections including three deaths was the
recorded highest number of A(H1N1) by the United States compared to Mexico
where only more than two thousand reported cases of infection including 60
deaths were confirmed. The WHO said 389 people were also confirmed with
the virus – and one person had died – in Canada who happens to be with the
19-year-old Chinese career that brings in to China a spread out. Two other
cases have been confirmed in Hong Kong. Authorities there said they had
quarantined six people who traveled with the second case, a 24-year-old
man, by plane from San Francisco. A further 45 people who sat near him on
his journey had already left Hong Kong, they said.
China, in the meantime, stepped up the search for people who came into
contact with the mainland’s two confirmed Swine Flu patients. A
30-year-old man was confirmed to have the virus in the southwestern city of
Chengdu. He had been in the United States before his homecoming to China.
Plane (Air Canada flight to Beijing) and train (for Shandong Province with
20 people on board) travelers with a 5 meter contact with a 19-year-old
student (his surname is Lu: second confirmed victim) are being haunted by
Chinese Authorities in Beijing and Eastern Shandong province.
He’s not feeling well, a couple of days after his arrival in Beijing but
still continue to travel by train with a fever, sore throat and a headache.
They believed that virus highlighted in China and Hong Kong could be a mix
of bird and human flu which came together in pigs.
Belgium confirmed its first case of Swine Flu in a 28-year-old man who also
had been in the United States. Jose Angel Cordova (Health Minister of
Mexico) moved to reassure tourists, saying that the country’s beaches and
resorts – an important source of foreign income — were safe for visitors.
“There’s no risk to tourists,” he said, noting that most of the flu cases
detected in holiday hotspots like Cancun and Acapulco dated back nearly two
weeks.
The Swine Flu outbreak was expected to cost Mexico’s economy of more than 2
billion dollars – or about 0.3 percent of gross domestic product.
