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Title: Travel advisory warns of severe respiratory illness in Mexico
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URL Source: http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009 ... ratory-illness-flu-mexico.html
Published: Apr 24, 2009
Author: CBC
Post Date: 2009-04-24 11:56:47 by Jethro Tull
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Views: 283
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Canadians who have recently returned from Mexico should be on alert for flu-like symptoms that could be connected to a severe respiratory illness, federal health officials said Thursday in issuing a travel advisory. A severe respiratory illness appears to have infected 137 people in south and central areas of Mexico, with cases concentrated in Mexico City and three other areas, including 20 deaths, the Public Health Agency of Canada said. In the United States, health officials in Texas and California were scrambling this week to deal with a new strain of swine flu, which has been diagnosed in seven people. The states share a border with Mexico not far from a town where two deaths were reported. The U.S. cases are unusual, because it appears none of the patients had contact with pigs, and the virus is one that health officials have never seen before. No cases of this swine flu have yet been found in Canada. The country's national laboratory in Winnipeg is analyzing 51 samples from Mexico to determine if any of them are swine flu and are linked to the U.S. cases. Results are expected in two days. New virus raises spectre of pandemic If the link is made, it may signal the emergence of a new pandemic virus, infection control specialist Dr. Michael Gardam, told CBC News in an interview Thursday night. "It certainly is suspicious that you have a new strain of swine flu showing up just north of the Mexican border, and you have an outbreak of cases south in Mexico," he said. "We already have the Americans talking about the H1N1 strain, which is a new strain they haven't seen before .… If you had evidence that this strain was also in Mexico, you would have further evidence that something new has shown up which has the ability to go person-to-person and has crossed borders as well." However, there is no reason to panic, said Gardam. "A pandemic virus basically means a virus that is going to affect a large proportion of the population. It doesn't mean they're going to get necessarily all that sick." In Canada, the travel advisory includes the same advice given to all travellers — to get a flu shot and take precautions such as covering coughs and staying home when sick — but also adds locations in Mexico where cases of a severe respiratory illness have occurred. The agency has also warned medical officials across the country to be on the lookout for patients with severe respiratory problems. However, federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq also stressed that there is no reason for Canadians to panic. "Canadians aren't threatened by this situation," Aglukkaq said, "but we need to work with our partners to monitor the situation carefully because it is a concern to us." Public health officials in Ontario have monitored about 10 people who recently returned from Mexico, with the numbers changing by the hour. "We haven't had any that have been directly tied," said Dr. David Williams, Ontario's acting chief medical officer of health. "We will continue to look, any case that has any remote possibility of connection, we want to see if we can connect those dots correctly." Cause of illness unknown "We are not sure where this is in Mexico, but it's not the tourist area," said Dr. Allison McGeer, director of infection control at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. The deaths were mostly men between the ages of 25 and 44, according to an advisory sent out by federal health authorities. Hundreds of people have also reportedly been hospitalized and health-care workers have also been infected. Officials said there are not yet any reports of the illness outside Mexico. Alberto Lozano, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Ottawa, said doctors in his country are on top of the outbreak. "This is pretty serious situation. But on the other hand, it is not an epidemic, so preventive measures have been taken to reduce the risk of contagion in Mexico." The cause of the illness has not been confirmed. Mexican health officials said samples so far have tested positive for influenza A and B. The working hypothesis is that the cases could be a late-season surge in seasonal influenza, said McGeer, noting most of the illnesses in Mexico have not been serious and there has been nothing new in the last five or six days. People infected with the virus initially suffer flu-like symptoms that include: Fever. Cough. Sore throat. Muscle and joint pain. Shortness of breath. The illness may elevate to a severe respiratory illness within about five days. Testing samples Anyone who has returned from Mexico within the last two weeks and is suffering similar symptoms is asked to contact a physician. "Until somebody tells us we don't have to worry anymore, these are viruses we want to collect," said McGeer. "What we do want to do is identify if there's some new virus, and the way to do that is for people to get a test if they get a respiratory illness, but it's only in the first few days after you've come back." Mexican health authorities said that many of those diagnosed with the illness have had to be put on ventilators. There's no reason for Canadians to change their plans to travel to Mexico, McGeer said. Public health officials in Canada advise travellers to ensure their vaccinations are up to date before flying, to be careful about washing their hands, covering coughs and sneezes and staying home when feeling sick.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Might as well start carpet bombing this side of the border and work towards messico city.
Napalm. Mother nature needs a good fire to renew the Earth.
_________________________________________________________________________ www.drudgereport.com/ OUTBREAK Travelers warned of mysterious respiratory illness... Mexico City launches huge vaccination campaign... 7 hit by strange new swine flu in USA... Heighten Risk of Pandemic... Mutated from pigs, transmitted to humans...
The Chinkernese are testing out a new weapon.
_________________________________________________________________________ Fort Detrick disease samples may be missing Army criminal investigators are looking into the possibility that disease samples are missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick. As first reported in today's edition of The Frederick News-Post by columnist Katherine Heerbrandt, the investigators are from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division unit at Fort Meade. Chad Jones, spokesman for Fort Meade, said CID is investigating the possibility of missing virus samples from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
Man you're in trouble plenty.
4um: Mexico City launches huge vaccination campaign against swine flu
Dry cough, fever and back pain. Talked to someone from down there that had it recently. It's a bitch, but won't kill you if you're otherwise well and strong. This is working its way into TX. I wash my hands a lot.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. You just feel like you're fixin' to die.
I've been at "fixin'to die" three or four times: chicken pox, severe multiple traumas, shock, septicemia, etc, etc. I know I can't put off the reaper forever, but I put a crowbar up his ass a few times. If it's gonna be a virus, it's gonna have to be a doozie.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. A friend of mine used to put off pulling the curtains at night. "It's going to be dark for me soon enough," he'd say. Right he was.
Remember, most viruses do not tolerate heat much above 98.6. Take hot baths, hot enough to raise your core temperature, like a fever.
alright! these viruses don't stand a chance against my hot flashes. ;P
The smooth criminal transition from Bush/Cheney to Obama
hehehe
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. Mexico's govt is telling them don't shake hands, don't share cutlery, don't kiss casual friends, etc. Our asshat, PC clowns in the CDC has issued the following warning "wash hands often." Load up w/Vit C...
I understand Owl Gore is going to use you as a prop in his case for global warming.
I live in Scottsdale take pretty good care of myself thought I had a great immune system...don't eat anything processed wash my hands to the extreme three weeks ago I got hit with a real nasty bug only recently got over it....in Arizona when no one can explain it we just call it "valley fever"
She makes the atmosphere crackle alright. On a clear, dry night, you can feel it out to Harris County.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. There is a frighteningly large number of waddling mamasitas with their little chupacabras in tow around here now. And, Mexican grocery stores are popping up all over as well as businesses with misspelled hand lettered signs (and gang graffiti) displayed everywhere. (I'm convinced that there's an express between the Rio Grande and Delaware. I'm listening to a Nutrimedical Report (courtesy of TwentyTwelve) that predicts deaths at 4 times the rate of the killer 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. I don't fear death but I do fear dying from a killer flu! I mean, I don't want to be so sick that I wish I'd die. To be conscious and to know how sick I am would really blow..... I haven't had so much as a cold in so many years that I can't remember when, and the idea of being really sick is frightening. I remember what it was like as a kid and I wouldn't want to go through that again, and I survived those! The thought of a killer pandemic is so terrifying to me that if I become symptomatic I may just do myself to avoid needless suffering.
Open for business this evening.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. Dawg, fear of the unknown is the worst. You're alive because many generations before you figured on seeing life through. Some of them must have had some major sicknesses to handle.
Well, I have an adequate number of descendants and from a strictly biological point of view I've fulfilled my primary mission. Years ago an archeologist pal told me that, from a scientific standpoint once we've reproduced we're all worthless eaters. I understand your uplifting point, however.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#2. To: Rotara (#1)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#3. To: Jethro Tull, Rotara, Litus, Original_Intent, ALL (#0)
#4. To: TwentyTwelve (#3)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#5. To: X-15 (#4)
#6. To: TwentyTwelve, litus (#5)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Fever. Cough. Sore throat. Muscle and joint pain. Shortness of breath.
I've already said too much.
#8. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#9. To: MUDDOG (#7)
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#10. To: randge (#9)
It's a bitch, but won't kill you if you're otherwise well and strong.
I've already said too much.
#11. To: MUDDOG (#10)
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#12. To: randge (#11)
I know I can't put off the reaper forever, but I put a crowbar up his ass a few times.
I've already said too much.
#13. To: Jethro Tull, all (#0)
#14. To: mininggold (#13)
most viruses do not tolerate heat much above 98.6.
#15. To: christine (#14)
hot flashes
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#16. To: MUDDOG (#12)
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#17. To: mininggold (#13)
#18. To: christine (#14)
#19. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#20. To: Jethro Tull (#18)
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#21. To: Jethro Tull, TwentyTwelve (#17)
#22. To: HOUNDDAWG (#21)
I'm convinced that there's an express between the Rio Grande and Delaware.
Laredo, Mexican side.
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#23. To: HOUNDDAWG (#21)
#24. To: Deasy (#23)
Dawg, fear of the unknown is the worst. You're alive because many generations before you figured on seeing life through. Some of them must have had some major sicknesses to handle.
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