The outbreak of swine flu in the United States and Mexico is, as is typical in the early stages of the spread of a new virus leading to an outpouring of different data from different sources.
At a news conference today in Mexico City, the Mexican health secretary said they had confirmed 20 deaths from swine flu and had 40 other suspected cases. A Associated Press dispatch said that the Ministry of Health of Mexico has identified 943 suspected cases. The World Health Organization said the reports today, there have been 62 suspicious deaths and a total of 882 suspected cases. WHO said Canadian laboratory confirmed 18 cases of swine flu, of which 12 were "genetically identical" to those of the United States. At a press conference today in Atlanta, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control, Richard Besser, makes no mention of the Canadian trials, but said CDC had confirmed 7 samples from Mexico as the same as the virus of the US swine flu in a region of its genome.
But, more importantly, stakeholders agreed with the WHO assessment that the epidemic is "very worrying".
0 Komentar