The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today it has found no new cases of swine flu country other than the eight identified earlier. Since last night, Mexico has reported 1004 suspected cases and 68 deaths (of which 20 were confirmed).
At a press conference this afternoon, the CDC officials stressed that the questions were many more answers and that the situation remained fluid. "These are very dynamic times and many things will change," said Anne Schuchat, interim deputy director for science and public health. CDC is coordinating a national effort by national and local public health departments to find new case, she said. "Now we are looking more widely, I expect us to find more in the country." CDC now has a team in Mexico helping health workers there.
Currently, the CDC one of the few laboratories that can test for the new virus and confirmed all the cases of the United States, and seven samples from Mexico. But displayed the World Health Organization today the virus DNA sequence, as well as information for diagnostic laboratories. CDC says it has developed a better reaction assay polymerase chain reaction to detect the virus and will soon send to a network of 140 laboratories working with the agency. "If there is no appearance that things are not available to people, it is mainly because it is a new virus. We reagents for this and it is just a matter of time for us to get them out, "said Daniel Jernigan, a medical epidemiologist in the influenza division. Jernigan said CDC anticipated that these reagents will be available" very soon ".
Meanwhile, New York City is looking in possible cases of swine flu, and the WHO has decided not to raise its pandemic threat level, although it has called the situation "international public health concern of emergency."
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