Posted on 04/27/2009 1:38:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mexico canceled school nationwide Monday and warned the death toll from a swine flu epidemic believed to have killed 149 people would keep rising before it can be contained. Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said 20 of the deaths have been confirmed to be from swine flu and the government was awaiting results on the others.
"We are the most critical moment of the epidemic. The number of cases will keep rising so we have to reinforce preventive measures," Cordova said at a news conference that was briefly shaken by an earthquake centered in southern Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsbtv.com ...
“Since when is it mandatory that people must travel? Can we not survive without plane loads of people that want to go to Disneyland? God forbid people in business would have to use telephones.”
By the time an outbreak of anything is detected and confirmed tens of thousands will have gone from continent to continent and country to country. And by the time tens of thousands have switched countries the disease will have spread worldwide. Measures can be taken to reduce the severity of outbreaks but the world is too small now to keep it from reaching all corners of the earth.
DoughtyOne wrote: “It’s strange that Mexico is the inception nation for a flu virus.”
If this is manmade and state sponsored, a direct attack on the US would almost force Zero to respond. If the target seems to be Mexico, he may be able to get away with not doing anything.
(potential attackers would know that the tourists and illegals would take it across the border).
Yeah, what would I do without a pack of tortillas? Oh yeah, what about all those American companies that went down to Mexico for their low wage peasant labor?
That's why I said, it's all about profits, big business keeping the border open.
I know as well as you do, they won't do anything to stop the human flood from Mexico into the U.S.
Spanish Influenza actually started in either the US or in SE Asia (unknown at this time) It got its name because Spain was the first to make noise about it. They were neutral in WWI and had no censorship of the press.
How do we know that this isn't the normal rate of flu deaths in Mexico every April?
It’s all about the money to alot of these people, isn’t it?
People keep saying that...what's concerning to me--ya shouldn't need clinics for the flu. I get the flu nearly every year if I don't get a flu shot, never had to go to the hospital. So unless you are in a high risk group, the flu should really only knock you on your ass for a week.
I screamed at the T.V. “What about trying to contain it and slow it you fool!”
Have ANY of the news reports broken down the medical condition of the confirmed flu related deaths in Mexico, all 20 of them? Are these the usual victims, the old, the young, and those with compromised immune systems?
Even as Mexican officials urged those with flu symptoms to seek medical help, some complained of being turned away.
In Toluca, a city west of the capital, one family said health authorities refused to treat a relative Sunday who had full-blown flu symptoms and could barely stand. The man, 31-year-old truck driver Elias Camacho, was even ordered out of a government ambulance, his father-in-law told The Associated Press.
Paramedics complained that Camacho -- who had a fever, was coughing and had body aches -- was contagious, Jorge Martinez Cruz said.
Family members took him by taxi to a public hospital, but a doctor there denied Camacho was sick and told the trio to leave, Martinez said.
"The government told us that if we have these symptoms, we should go to these places, but look how they treat us," Martinez said. Camacho was finally admitted to the hospital -- and placed in an area marked "restricted" -- after a doctor at a private clinic notified state health authorities, Martinez said.
Jose Isaac Cepeda, who has had fever, diarrhea and joint pains since Friday, said he was turned away from two hospitals -- the first because he isn't registered in the public health system, and the second "because they say they're too busy."
Can you imagine what will happen to our economy if they close all the schools? If millions of women quit their jobs or take a leave of absence to care for their children?
Is there a mall in the country that can survive this economy AND two years of pandemic waves?
Believe it or not, Neil Cavuto tried to make that same argument today. Had pro-border security politician from New Jersey and Cavuto kept interrupting him using that same argument and also accusing him of just “using” the situation to try and advance pro-border security agenda.
Not surprised what you saw. We’ve basically stopped watching television news. The lies and BS just became too much.
New cases in California....the articles noted that these children had not been to Mexico...by why bother when Mexico comes to ya every day!
[Updated at 12:50 p.m.: The Sacramento County public health officer, Dr. Glenna Trochet, said that swine flu had been confirmed in a seventh-grader at St. Mel’s school in Fair Oaks. Three other children at the school had similar symptoms and were being tested, she added. All four had mild cases and recovered or are recovering.]
State officials are trying to confirm what may be the eighth case of swine flu in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today at an impromptu news conference in Beverly Hills.
The latest possible infection involves a seventh-grader in Sacramento. It follows four confirmed cases in San Diego County and three in Imperial County.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/schwarzenegger-flu.html
“Have ANY of the news reports broken down the medical condition of the confirmed flu related deaths in Mexico, all 20 of them?”
140 now dead in Mexico.
That is more than a pack of tortillas. Mexico has substandard health care, and a corrupt government. Yet they are a major provider of oil to the USA, and we have a very large agricultural trade. They are a bad neighbor, but they are our neighbor. Sure they dump their Mestizo's and natives here. We oughta just put them on the reservations like we did with ours.
All that and a poster sized WON’T WORK. Trade is necessary, the border is swiss cheese. Doing the math, that means a large black market surge of legal goods, which, by the way, will shadow the illegal one and make it even harder to contain. Way to go.
IIRC, most have been hale and hearty 20-49 year olds.
But only 20 confirmed by the “swine” flu.
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