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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Canada Issues Alert on Severe Respiratory Disease in Mexico |
| 2009-04-23 |
| The Public Health Agency of Canada has told quarantine services to be on alert for travellers returning from Mexico after a number of severe respiratory illnesses (SRI) were reported in some regions of the country. PHAC, in an April 20 report, said Mexican officials informed the Canadian health agency that the "case-fatality rate was relatively high" and that most cases involved healthy adults between the ages of 25 and 44. A number of health-care workers were also affected. Although no cause has been confirmed, some samples were positive for influenza A and B... The above comments on an alert issued by Canada offer some insight into the situation in Mexico. The reports out of Mexico are decidedly mixed. Some reports describe an increase in influenza cases which is attributed to a late spike in influenza B, which when combined with influenza A, gives an abnormally high number of cases this late in the season. Other reports discuss revaccinating at risk groups with the current trivalent vaccine. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #3 cdc? ferris? anyone? nbc? |
| Posted by: newc 2009-04-23 20:41 |
| #2 Follow-up: Rough translation: 500 cases reported in Mexico City Thursday, April 23, 2009 The contagion has affected workers and employees of major public hospitals in the Capital, such as the Juarez Hospital, General Hospital, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, and hospitals in the area of Tlalpan MEXICO CITY .- At least 500 employees of the Health sector in Mexico City are infected with influenza virus, reported Antonio Sanchez Arriaga, general secretary of the National Independent Union of Health Workers. The contagion has affected workers and employees of major public hospitals in the Capital, such as the Juarez Hospital, General Hospital, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, and hospitals in the area of Tlalpan, where the National Institute Cardiology, the National Nutrition Institute and the Hospital Manuel Gea González, in addition to the Red Cross Polanco. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-04-23 14:11 |
| #1 Yeah, the quantity of lead inside the lungs was a dead giveaway. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-04-23 11:34 |