Posted on 04/24/2009 5:04:49 AM PDT by Cindy
Travel advisory warns of severe respiratory illness in Mexico 20 die from severe respiratory illness in Mexico
Canadians who have recently returned from Mexico should be on alert for flu-like symptoms that could be connected to a severe respiratory illness, federal health officials said Thursday in issuing a travel advisory.
A severe respiratory illness appears to have infected 137 people in south and central areas of Mexico, with cases concentrated in Mexico City and three other areas, including 20 deaths, the Public Health Agency of Canada said.
In the United States, health officials in Texas and California were scrambling this week to deal with a new strain of swine flu, which has been diagnosed in seven people.
The states share a border with Mexico not far from a town where two deaths were reported.
The U.S. cases are unusual, because it appears none of the patients had contact with pigs, and the virus is one that health officials have never seen before.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
ping
http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_3028.html
Travel Alert
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bureau of Consular Affairs
This information is current as of today, Fri Apr 24 2009 05:09:35 GMT-0700 (PDT).
Mexico
February 20, 2009
The article/advisory in post no. 1 is from the Canada news.
The travel alert in post 3 is not flu-related as of this post and originated in the U.S.A.
ping
As if I needed yet another reason to avoid traveling to Mexico.
All Canadians should rejoice at the accident of geography that placed the USA between us and the third world.
Stay away from Mexico. My doc, head of internal medicine at UCSF med school, said that Mexico, not Africa, has the worst strains of communicable diseases.
Add to that, a friend’s MI5 buddy declares Mexico to be the most dangerous country in the world.
Forget the beaches and margaritas. You can get those in CA and Hawaii and FL.
Bioterrorism. And the fact that it is a pig-borne disease absolutely throws off the scent, as there is some sort of belief tht Islamic scientists would NEVER concern themselves with anything that would have to do with swine. However, this does not rule out that the People’s Republic of China may be testing a similar tactic.
They are seeking out the vulnerabilities, one of which is infiltration into the US through Mexico. A broadly based plague that kills off tens or hundreds of thousnds is VASTLY more devastating than just taking down a couple buildings in the heart of a city.
Just wait until the bird flu hits Mexico (this fall?)-
the rush of panicked peasants through our borders could be a catastrophe
Maybe that’s why the REX84 camps
Could this be related to a mix of ebola and some other flu-likw disease reported a while back in the Philippines?
bttt
Travel to Mexico doesn't matter. The illness will soon come to you, courtesy of rampant illegal invasion across the Mexican border (as drug-resistant TB already has).
The states share a border with Mexico not far from a town where two deaths were reported.
I love incoherent writing. Guess they don't know that there are TWO states between California and Texas. So if both CA and TX are "not far from" this town, this town is MUCH closer to those OTHER two states. Yes, I live in one of those two states and own property in the other.
All classes cancelled in Mexico City
A Mexican Health Ministry statement issued on Thursday afternoon said the country "was in the presence of a new influenza virus that constitutes a respiratory epidemic which is controllable, so far."
But laboratory tests on the 828 Mexican cases have yet to confirm the patients are suffering from influenza, or what strain it might be, Hartl said.
The Mexican government ordered that all classes in Mexico City and the surrounding state be cancelled on Friday, from pre-schools to universities. It also has warned the public to avoid gathering places and major events.
On Thursday, Canadian health officials issued a travel advisory warning travellers who have recently returned from Mexico to be on alert for flu-like symptoms that could be connected to the illness.
In the U.S., health officials were scrambling this week to deal with a new strain of swine flu, which has been diagnosed in seven people in Texas and California.
The states share a border with Mexico not far from a town where two deaths were reported.
The U.S. cases are unusual, because it appears none of the patients had contact with pigs, and the virus is one that health officials have never seen before.
No cases of this swine flu have been found in Canada
I do not monitor the MSM. Have they reported this yet?
sw
The travel alert should be here in the US since the illegals are traveling to here.
Ping to Blam. Check out post #15. First I’ve heard of it.
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