As part of its efforts to slow the spread of swine flu, the US government intends to issue an opinion later today for its citizens to avoid non-essential travel to Mexico. At a press conference today, Richard Besser, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting, said that the government decided to issue the notice "on abundance of caution."
Besser said CDC has now confirmed 40 cases of swine flu in five states, people aged 7 to 54 years. This doubles the number since Saturday, and the new cases were all students of the New York School who recently visited Mexico. CDC has confirmed 26 cases in Mexico, which now has 1 0 suspected cases. "Obviously, this is a small fraction of what they see," he said. Mexico also appears to have many severe cases, nearly 20 confirmed deaths. One person in the United States have been hospitalized and all have recovered.
Earlier in the day, the health commissioner of the European Union Androulla Vassiliou urged Europeans to put off nonessential travel to Mexico and the United States. Besser said he thought it was "premature" to impose travel restrictions on people coming to the United States, which has not seen a serious illness.
Sunday, Hong Kong announced that not only discouraged travel to Mexico but would hospitalize those who arrived in the country with a respiratory illness. In 03, an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome that scared the world appeared in Hong Kong.
Julio Frenk, former Secretary of Health in Mexico who now heads the School of Public Health at Harvard University, said science that "blanket travel ban never works. "Frenk, who was in Mexico City when he talked with science Insider, congratulated the Mexican government to take prudent measures such as school closures for 12 days and discourage people to come together in public. the World Health Organization should coordinate the international response, he said, and he has not recommending travel restrictions. "What does it give good information to people to prevent propagation and if symptoms, make sure they know what to do. "
to this end, the CDC issued a new" guidance "today to reduce exposure to influenza and provide advice on what to do if you are infected.
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