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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:25:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [The_Brotherhood_of_Pagans] Mexico flu deaths raise fears of
global epidemic
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Mexico flu deaths raise fears of global epidemic
Unique virus connected to cases in Calif. and Texas; source still a mystery
msnbc.com news services

updated 6:26 p.m. CT, Fri., April 24, 2009

Mexico shut down schools, museums, libraries and state-run theaters
across its overcrowded capital Friday in hopes of containing a swine
flu outbreak that authorities say killed at least 20 people — and
perhaps dozens more. World health authorities worried openly that the
strange new virus could become a global epidemic.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said tests show
some of the Mexico victims died from the same new strain of swine flu
that sickened eight people in Texas and California. Of the 14 samples
tested from Mexico, seven were matches, said the CDC's acting director
Dr. Richard Besser.

Mexico put the confirmed toll at 20 dead, but 40 other fatalities were
being probed, and at least 943 nationwide were sick from the suspected
flu, the health department said.
Scientists said the virus combines genetic material from pigs, birds
and humans in a way researchers have not seen before.

"We are very, very concerned," World Health Organization spokesman
Thomas Abraham said.

"We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human
to human," he said. "It's all hands on deck at the moment."

President Felipe Calderon cancelled a trip and met with his Cabinet to
coordinate Mexico's response. The government planned to administer its
remaining 500,000 vaccines from the flu season to health workers, the
highest risk group, although it is not known how effective they are on
swine flu. It said it also has enough oseltamivir, the generic name of
Tamiflu, to treat 1 million people, but the medicine will be strictly
controlled and handed out only by doctors.

The CDC says Tamiflu and Relenza do seem effective against the new
strain. Roche, the maker of Tamiflu, said the company is prepared to
immediately deploy a stockpile of the drug if requested. Both drugs
must be taken early, within a few days of the onset of symptoms, to be
most effective.

Authorities urged people to avoid hospitals unless they had a medical
emergency, since hospitals are centers of infection.

They also said Mexicans should refrain from customary greetings such
as shaking hands or kissing cheeks, and authorities at Mexico City's
international airport were questioning passengers to try to prevent
anybody with possible influenza from boarding airplanes and spreading
the disease.

But the CDC said Americans need not avoid traveling to Mexico, as long
as they take the usual precautions, such as frequent handwashing.

"We certainly have 60 deaths that we can't be sure are from the same
virus, but it is probable," said Health Secretary Jose Cordova. He
called it a "new, different strain ... that originally came from
pigs."

Epidemiologists are particularly concerned because the only people
killed so far were normally less-vulnerable young people and adults.
It's possible that more vulnerable populations — infants and the aged
— had been vaccinated against other strains, and that those vaccines
may be providing some protection.

All eight U.S. patients recovered from symptoms that were like those
of the regular flu, mostly involving fever, cough and sore throat,
though some of them also experienced vomiting and diarrhea.

Scientists have long been concerned that a new flu virus could launch
a pandemic, a worldwide spread of a killer disease. A new virus could
evolve when different flu viruses infect a pig, a person or a bird,
mingling their genetic material. The resulting hybrid could spread
quickly because people would have no natural defenses against it.

40 million died in 1918 pandemic

The most notorious flu pandemic is thought to have killed at least 40
million people worldwide in 1918-19. Two other, less deadly flu
pandemics struck in 1957 and 1968.
Nobody can predict when pandemics will happen. Scientists had been
concerned about swine flu in 1976, for example, and some 40 million
Americans were vaccinated. No flu pandemic ever appeared, but
thousands of vaccinated people filed claims saying they'd suffered a
paralyzing condition and other side effects from the shots.

In recent years, scientists have been particularly concerned about
birds. There have been deaths from bird flu, mostly in Asia, but the
virus has so far been unable to spread from person to person easily
enough to touch off a pandemic.

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Closing the schools across Mexico City, a metropolis of 20 million,
kept 6.1 million students home from day care centers through high
schools, and thousands more were affected as colleges and universities
closed down. Parents scrambled to juggle work and family concerns due
to what local media said was the first citywide schools closure since
Mexico City's devastating 1985 earthquake.

Authorities also advised capital residents not to go to work if they
felt ill, and to wear surgical masks if they had to move through
crowds. A wider shutdown — perhaps including shutting down government
offices — was being considered.

"It is very likely that classes will be suspended for several days,"
Cordova said. "We will have to evaluate, and let's hope this doesn't
happen, the need to restrict activity at workplaces."

Past outbreaks

Mexico's initial response in its overcrowded capital brought to mind
other major outbreaks — such as when SARS hit Asia. At its peak in
2003, Beijing was the hardest-hit city in the world. Schools, cinemas
and restaurants were shuttered to prevent the spread the deadly
respiratory virus, and thousands of people were quarantined at home.
In March 2008, Hong Kong ordered more than a half million young
students to stay home for two weeks because of a flu outbreak. It was
the first such closure in Hong Kong since the outbreak of SARS, or
severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Lillian Molina and other teachers at the Montessori's World preschool
scrubbed down their empty classrooms with Clorox, soap and Lysol on
Friday between fielding calls from worried parents. While the school
has had no known cases among its students, Molina supported the
government's decision to shutter classes, especially in preschools.
"It's great they are taking precautions," she said. "I think it's a
really good idea."

Still, U.S. health officials said it's not yet a reason for alarm in
the United States. The six in California and two in Texas have all
recovered, and testing indicates some common antiviral medications
seem to work against the virus.

New strain has swine, bird and human viruses

Schuchat of the CDC said officials believe the new strain can spread
human-to-human, which is unusual for a swine flu virus. The CDC is
checking people who have been in contact with the eight confirmed U.S.
cases, who all became ill between late March and mid-April.

The U.S. cases are a growing medical mystery because it's unclear how
they caught the virus. The CDC said none of the eight people were in
contact with pigs, which is how people usually catch swine flu. And
only a few were in contact with each other.
The virus was first detected in two children in southern California —
a 10-year-old boy in San Diego County and a 9-year-old girl in
neighboring Imperial County.

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The cases were detected under unusual circumstances. One was seen at a
Navy clinic that participates in a specialized disease detection
network, and the other was caught through a specialized surveillance
system set up in border communities, CDC officials said.
Investigators have since discovered six more cases. That includes a
father and his teenage daughter in San Diego County, a 41-year-old
woman in Imperial County who was the only person hospitalized, and two
16-year-old boys who are friends and live in Guadalupe County, Texas,
near San Antonio.

Puzzling cases

The Texas cases are especially puzzling. One of the California cases —
the 10-year-old boy — traveled to Texas early this month, but that was
to Dallas, about 270 miles northeast of San Antonio. He did not travel
to the San Antonio area, Schuchat said.
The two 16-year-olds had not traveled recently, Texas health officials said.
No details were available about the eighth victim, a child from San Diego.

CDC officials described the virus as having a unique combination of
gene segments not seen in people or pigs before. The bug contains
human virus, avian virus from North America and pig viruses from North
America, Europe and Asia.

Health officials have seen mixes of bird, pig and human virus before,
but never such an intercontinental combination with more than one pig
virus in the mix.

Scientists keep a close eye on flu viruses that emerge from pigs. The
animals are considered particularly susceptible to both avian and
human viruses and a likely place where the kind of genetic
reassortment can take place that might lead to a new form of pandemic
flu, said Dr. John Treanor, an infectious disease specialist at the
University of Rochester Medical Center.

The virus may be something completely new, or it may have been around
for a while but was only detected now because of improved lab testing
and disease surveillance, CDC officials said.

It's not known if the seasonal flu vaccine Americans got this winter
protects against this type of virus. People should wash their hands
and take other precautions, CDC officials said.

Antivirals ready if needed

Officials from the World Health Organization said on Friday that it
was prepared with "rapid containment measures" including antivirals if
needed to combat the swine flu outbreaks in Mexico and the United
States.

But health authorities in the two countries have the resources
required already in place and are "well equipped," WHO spokeswoman
Aphaluck Bhatiasevi said in Geneva.
She said the United Nations agency saw no need at this point to issue
travel advisories warning travelers not to go to parts of Mexico or
the United States. WHO says it is in daily contact with U.S., Canadian
and Mexican authorities and had activated its command and control
center for acute public health events.

The WHO will convene a meeting of its Emergency Committee on
international health regulations, probably on Saturday afternoon, she
added.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30386163/

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