One step closer to Pandemic Nine Countries have confirmed cases, and the Death toll is 177.
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The new Mexican Swine Flu has elements of DNA from the following:
avian flu, human flu Type A, human flu Type B, Asian swine flu, and European swine flu. A strange combination never seen before and
having less than 1/10% chance of being a natural event. Human and animal viruses from four or more continents suddenly recombine in a
new flu during a non-flu season that spreads from human-to-human with a 10% fatality rating.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A baby in Texas has died of the H1N1 flu strain, the first confirmed death outside Mexico from the virus, which health officials fear could cause a pandemic as it spread to two more countries.
Nearly a week after the threat emerged in Mexico, where up to 176 people have died, U.S. officials said on Wednesday a 23-month-old child died from the virus in the state that borders Mexico.
They gave no other details on the first death in a country with 100 confirmed cases of swine flu, most of them mild.
Germany reported its first three cases and Austria one, taking to eleven the number of countries known to be affected.
France said it would seek on Thursday a European Union ban on all flights to Mexico because of the flu.
The EU, like the United States and Canada, has already advised against nonessential travel to the popular tourist destination.
A Bavarian couple in their 30s, a 22-year-old woman in Hamburg and a 28-year-old Austrian, who was now recovering, had all recently returned from Mexico -- as had all five Britons taken ill with mild symptoms.
The Britons include three new cases confirmed on Wednesday, adults in London and Birmingham and a 12-year-old girl in southwest England.
Cases have also been confirmed in Canada, New Zealand, Israel, Switzerland, Peru and Spain.
The World Health Organization said it may raise its pandemic alert level to phase five -- the second highest -- if it were confirmed that infected people in at least two countries were spreading the new disease to other people in a sustained way.
For all you not aware, Phase 5 means a Pandemic is imminent:
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/phase/en/index.html
"the declaration of Phase 5 is a strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalize the organization, communication, and implementation of the planned mitigation measures is short.
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Vaccine months away
The world has no vaccine to prevent infection but U.S. health officials aim to have a key ingredient for one ready in early May, the big step that vaccine manufacturers are awaiting. But even if the World Health Organization ordered up emergency vaccine supplies — and that decision hasn't been made yet — it would take at least two more months to produce the initial shots needed for human safety testing.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE53N22820090429?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=76
http://www.reuters.com/article/heal...90429?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&rpc=76
The new Mexican Swine Flu has elements of DNA from the following:
avian flu, human flu Type A, human flu Type B, Asian swine flu, and European swine flu. A strange combination never seen before and
having less than 1/10% chance of being a natural event. Human and animal viruses from four or more continents suddenly recombine in a
new flu during a non-flu season that spreads from human-to-human with a 10% fatality rating.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A baby in Texas has died of the H1N1 flu strain, the first confirmed death outside Mexico from the virus, which health officials fear could cause a pandemic as it spread to two more countries.
Nearly a week after the threat emerged in Mexico, where up to 176 people have died, U.S. officials said on Wednesday a 23-month-old child died from the virus in the state that borders Mexico.
They gave no other details on the first death in a country with 100 confirmed cases of swine flu, most of them mild.
Germany reported its first three cases and Austria one, taking to eleven the number of countries known to be affected.
France said it would seek on Thursday a European Union ban on all flights to Mexico because of the flu.
The EU, like the United States and Canada, has already advised against nonessential travel to the popular tourist destination.
A Bavarian couple in their 30s, a 22-year-old woman in Hamburg and a 28-year-old Austrian, who was now recovering, had all recently returned from Mexico -- as had all five Britons taken ill with mild symptoms.
The Britons include three new cases confirmed on Wednesday, adults in London and Birmingham and a 12-year-old girl in southwest England.
Cases have also been confirmed in Canada, New Zealand, Israel, Switzerland, Peru and Spain.
The World Health Organization said it may raise its pandemic alert level to phase five -- the second highest -- if it were confirmed that infected people in at least two countries were spreading the new disease to other people in a sustained way.
For all you not aware, Phase 5 means a Pandemic is imminent:
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/phase/en/index.html
"the declaration of Phase 5 is a strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalize the organization, communication, and implementation of the planned mitigation measures is short.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5431DI20090504?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=76
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Vaccine months away
The world has no vaccine to prevent infection but U.S. health officials aim to have a key ingredient for one ready in early May, the big step that vaccine manufacturers are awaiting. But even if the World Health Organization ordered up emergency vaccine supplies — and that decision hasn't been made yet — it would take at least two more months to produce the initial shots needed for human safety testing.
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