Posted on 04/25/2009 5:49:54 PM PDT by 7mmMag@LeftCoast
The number of deaths linked to the swine flu outbreak in Mexico has risen to 81, the country's government has announced.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
According to some reports, at least 200 people have died so far in Mexico.
Read this comment and some others linked below for firsthand accounts:
“I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from “under control”. As a doctor, I realise that the media does not report the truth. Authorities distributed vaccines among all the medical personnel with no results, because two of my partners who worked in this hospital (interns) were killed by this new virus in less than six days even though they were vaccinated as all of us were. The official number of deaths is 20, nevertheless, the true number of victims are more than 200. I understand that we must avoid to panic, but telling the truth it might be better now to prevent and avoid more deaths.”
Yeny Gregorio Dávila, Mexico City
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/8018428.stm
To be fair, an immunization is not instantly effective, and a decent doctor would know that.
Not saying the Mexican government and media are being forthcoming with information, but that statement alone makes statements from that particular "physician" suspect.
On purpose?
“No need to panic yet...”
What are you waiting for? Panic now, avoid the rush.
/S
Reading the prayer made my hair stand on end. Beautiful.
Just tapeworms and trichonosis.
News articles have also stated that they had cases April 1, and others state in March.
There is a lot of - well, disagreement - in a lot of this.
Fog of war, plus perhaps the various PTB haven’t gotten all their memos lined up.
There have been other articles from Mexico talking about vaccines. I think they are doing it to pacifyl people even though there is no vaccine for this, and the regular vaccine would have no effect.
Placebo.
http://medical-ebook.com/?p=19650
What Navy facility? What project w/intensive surveillance on the border?
In English
Mexico City newspaper
April 17,2009
It alerts SSA on increase of influenza
Notimex
It reveals that the evil now also is present in spring and with more intensity Authorities of Secretariat of Health alerted that influenza seasonal summoned up the life of two people in which go of the year, and explained that the evil now also is present in spring and with more intensity.
In press conference, authorities of the dependency indicated that in which goes of the year they have reported four thousand 167 probable cases and 313 have been confirmed (7,5 percent).
The notification of suspicious and confirmed cases tripled east year with respect to the same period of 2008. They indicated mainly that 14 have appeared I appear, in Noble, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Chihuahua, District Federal and Baja California.
The unique cases of deaths occurred in the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases and referred that it still does not exist an explanation unique nor forceful scientist who explains why influenza extended in time and intensity.
Nevertheless, they consider that it must to a greater presence of the type of virus B combined with the traditional one of type A.
They emphasized that influenza can detect as a case of agravated influenza and asked the people not to automedicar itself and to go immediately to the doctor, because the cases of death had to do with autoprescripción and the delayed presence in the medical attention.
They emphasized that already they have started up diverse operative related to this evil, that includes the fortification of the monitoring epidemiologist and toilet; to provide medical attention; to standardize the application of antiviral and vaccinating the vulnerable groups and watching the security and its effectiveness.
In addition, one looks for to guarantee the consumptions, medecines and vaccines; to promote the self medication of the health and to assure the protection the personnel.
In this sense, they indicated that they will apply of 200 to 400 thousand vaccines for medical personnel, who is particularly vulnerable.
In the conference they were Carlos Saint, of the Main directorate of Promotion of the Health; Mauritius Hernandez, undersecretary of Prevention and Promotion of the Health; Miguel Lezana, of the National Center of monitoring Epidemiologist and Control of Enfermedades and Samuel Ponce of Leon, of the Biological and Reactive Laboratories of Mexico. azc
Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Project (BIDS)
The Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) Project is a binational surveillance system for infectious diseases along the U.S.-Mexico border. The network conducts active, sentinel surveillance for syndromes consistent with hepatitis and febrile-rash illness at clinical facilities in 4 areas on both sides of the border. BIDS was established to help public health officials better understand and detect important infectious disease problems along the U.S.-Mexico border. The project is a collaboration of CDC, 9 U.S. and Mexican border state health departments, the Mexican Secretariat of Health, and the Pan American Health Organization. For more information, consult the BIDS project’s first summary publication: Doyle TJ, Bryan RT. Infectious disease morbidity in the US region bordering Mexico, 1990-1998. JID 2000;182(5):1503-10.
A BA worker has been taken to a London hospital with “flu-like symptoms” after arriving on a flight from Mexico City.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8018887.stm
just the FLU!
That sounded way high when I first read your post. Then I checked it out, and it's not:
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r030107.htm
No, Flagg was actually competent.
The difference is that the 30k to 50k that die each year from flu are mostly old and frail. Not to be insensitive, they were close to croaking from something else anyway.
The pandemic flus such as 1918. 1976 and (possibly) the Mexican Flu of 2009 tend to actually kill a larger percentage of healthy young adults. One theory is that this type of flu turns the body’s own immune system against it. The stronger the immune system the more likely it is to kill you.
So a pandemic flu in the US of the 1976 type might not kill an enormously larger number of people, the profile of those who die is very different from the “normal” flu.
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