Influenza A (H1N1) near epidemic

I don't know if people who died in Mexico come from urban centers, mountains or  ghettos (however they call them in Mexico, we call them Pueblos Jóvenes), where the attention is deficient, believe me, here in Peru people die in public hospitals even in Lima, for multiple causes that in private clinics are cured with a pill, sometimes the hospitals don't have basic medicines and people can't buy Azitromicine or a strong antibiotic for pneumonia...Just imagine how hard is to pay for an anti viral which is extremely expensive.

Countries as ours need really better free medical service.

It's specially important to notice that in USA only one person has died of the same virus, so maybe the health system is better.

It's still too soon to know, only time will tell.

Iván

Apparently here we have only one case RELATED and 7 suspicious but not confirmed

A plane that came from Panama had an Argentinean 27 years woman who came from  Mexico, she started to show signs of the disease and the passengers practically ordered to stop in Perú and leave the girl (Lima was not a scale).

The pilot LIED and said a cardiac patient with hypothermia was very seasick, so the authorities authorized the landing, the surprise was when the 27 years woman had high fever, bleeding nose, etc.

Apparently the patient has a H1 influenza but not the N1 factor, so it could be a different virus or a mutation.

That pilot should be fired and sued in Perú, if are going to take the risk of accepting a passenger with an epidemic disease, the least we deserve is the chance to take all the precautions.

Iván

weetabix wrote: [QUOTE=Alberto Muñoz]Yes is a new one, imported from United States and Canada   the health autorithies do not know about the consecuences of the common vaccine, this is about his efectiviness       How come Canada and the US are not suffering as much as Mexico? If it started in Cn./ US?

Because it's not as big of a killer as the media is making it out be, for one.

Also, the healthcare in countries like USA, Canada and England is very top-notch, if not a little unfair (in the USA, anyway). This means that the folks in these countries are already more or less 'immune' to the virus' worst affects because of the great healthcare.

Hope that answers your question.

• The incubation period of H1N1 flu, now estimated about 1 to 5 days, may be shorter than originally thought.
• Now community transmission in Europe is not seen and the flu cases still are mostly travel related.
• Currently the pandemic alart level is remaining at phase 5 and not presently moving to the highest level.
• People who tend to be infected should be relatively younger, mostly younger than 60...the average age seems to be people in their mid-20s.
• The reason above-mentioned remains unclear but simply younger people may travel more and have greater exposure to the virus.
• Women and men are being infected at the same rate.
• Severe respiratory illness, such as severe pneumonia requiring ventilation, may be the cause for most hospitalizations and deaths.
• And now it's unclear whether severe illness should occur frequently or not.
• Oseltamivir and zanamivir may be effective against H1N1 flu, but to rimantadine and amantadine the virus usually shows resistance.

well seems that everything came back to how it used to be, restaurants, schools and theatres are re-open, now nobody wears that "mouth-covering" thing