How come we don’t see this in the Mid East and Asia...not including Australia...?
I think it might have to do with the incubation time , & if they visited Mexico. New Zealand does have confirmed cases..
Suspected case in ISRAEL: While the influenza is generally on decline in Israel, the country’s health minister reported the first suspected case of swine flu in Israel http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3706679,00.html
Mexico: 149 suspected deaths from swine flu - 26 confirmed cases
United States: 40 confirmed cases
Canada: 6 confirmed cases
Spain: 1 confirmed case
UK, Spain, Israel, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand: suspected cases being tested
Australia does have suspected cases ...
Also there isn’t alot of news being reported about the South Carolina private school which is closed because of suspected swine flu . Some students at the school went to Mexico on Spring Break...
But if you search the web you can find the article...
Suspected Case In Chicago
Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital are waiting for test results to see if a patient in his 30s has swine flu.
Dr. John Flaherty is the associate chief of infectious diseases at Northwestern University-Feinberg School of Medicine.
“This is somebody that returned from Mexico and essentially got sick on the plane coming back from Mexico and then came right to our hospital.”
WBBM: And when was that?
“That was Saturday.”
Dr. Flaherty says the man is apparently doing all right - and is at home - taking the anti-flu medicine, Tamiflu.
Too soon yet?
I don’t know what to make of it all..
A Pakistani, among those killed by flu
Sunday, April 26, 2009
The INER reported 15 deaths from the epidemic in National Institute of Respiratory Diseases
A Pakistani was the first foreigner to have died in Mexico, the victim of swine influenza. To his family, a group of about eight people, samples were taken for analysis and were given treatment with the antiviral oseltamivir. Sources from the Ministry of Health confirmed the death of Pakistan, which is part of the 20 deceased persons to whom it was found that the contracted swine influenza.
According to data collected by El Universal, Pakistani, which is not provided the name, joined the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) on April 16.
The Health Department detected its first case of swine influenza and released three days before the April 17 first epidemiological alert for an outbreak of atypical seasonal influenza. The alien died on Sunday April 19. His relatives were summoned to proportional one days after the medication and prevent the spread of the virus. INER in the 15 patients died, one at 11:30 am yesterday by a virus whose name did not clarify the institute’s director, Edgar Mondragon Armijo.
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http://pandemicinformationnews.blogspot.com/2009/04/pakistani-among-those-killed-by-flu.html