Developments on swine flu worldwide (Update)

Source: Associated Press

Key developments on swine flu outbreaks, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and government officials:

_Deaths: Global total of 61 — 56 in Mexico; three in the U.S.; one in Canada and one in Costa Rica. One of those who died in the U.S. was a toddler from Mexico. Officials said the Canadian, U.S. and Costa Rican victims also had other medical conditions.

_Confirmed cases, according to WHO and CDC: About 4,800 in 30 countries, including at least 1,626 in Mexico, 2,618 in the United States and 284 in Canada.

_China confirms its first case on mainland, a student who had been in U.S. Health authorities scramble to quarantine hundreds of passengers who flew with him on flight from Japan and a domestic flight.

_Japan reported its first four cases: a teacher and three students who had been on school trip to Canada. Australia reported its first confirmed case Saturday.

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Millions of children, many wearing surgical masks, returned to scrubbed and disinfected classrooms Monday after a nationwide shutdown to curb the spread of swine flu in Mexico. The worldwide toll of deaths linked to the illness rose to 61.

China, meanwhile, was ramping up efforts to control the disease after a Chinese man who had been studying at the University of Missouri became the mainland's first confirmed swine flu case.

Health authorities in Beijing scrambled to find and quarantine more than 200 people who accompanied him on a flight to China, transmitting messages by radio, television and telephone text asking the passengers to contact officials.

Six of Mexico's 31 states put off reopening schools for a week amid a rise in suspected flu cases in some regions, and a seventh ordered a one-day delay. Some parents were worried about sending their children back so soon.

Egypt has over a hundred suspected bird flu cases. I am hoping these are negative.
Indonesia
Vietnam has a bunch of sick kids with flu like sx and they had a bird flu death this past week.

Vietnam - Fever rampant in Ha Noi children
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.co...
HA NOI - The number of children suffering from virus-related fevers and respiratory diseases is rising in Ha Noi.

The number of children admitted to the hospital has risen in the past few weeks, said Dr Nguyen The Thanh of Bach Mai Hospital's Paediatrics Department.

"There are between 70 and 80 child patients hospitalised each day. This number increases by 150 at the weekends when the outpatients' department is off," he said.

Three to a bed

Currently, the hospital is crammed with young patients, with two or three children sharing a bed.

The Saint Paul Hospital's Paediatrics Department is currently receiving 500 to 600 new patients each day. As many as 200 of these have acute respiratory problems and high fever, according to the department's Doctor Nguyen Thi Tho.

Thanh said that common symptoms were headaches, chills, muscle pain and vomiting. Some also suffered from convulsions and difficulty breathing.





and nepal has something going on
Pneumonia scourge in hostel

Last Updated : 2009-05-10 8:41 AM

The Himalayan Times -

GORKHA: More than 50 per cent of the students living in a hostel of Manakamana Deaf Secondary School at Taksar in Gorkha-8 are suffering from pneumonia. Over 40 students are suffering from the disease while condition of eight students is reported to be critical, a school source said.
According to Khadananda Regmi, chairman of the school management committee, the number of students suffering from the disease was increasing everyday while more and more students were showing symptoms of the disease of headache, fever and vomiting.
The students suffering from the disease are undergoing treatment in the hostel with the help of the staffers from the district public health office.
The school is running classes up to Grade IX and 80 deaf students from several districts are living in the school hostel, the school source said.
http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Pneumonia+scourge+in+hostel&id=NDExNg==&catid=NQ==

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An official spokesman told PTI on Sunday that following a warning from the WHO, the state government has made arrangements to monitor the border.

"Monitoring centres equipped with team of doctors and medical kits have been set up at the immigration offices of Sonauli and Rupaideeha barriers of Indo-Nepal border falling under Mahrajganj and Bahraich districts respectively," he said.

Chief Medical Officer of Gorakhpur R N Mishra told PTI that WHO has provided these doctors with personal protection kits, including mask and goggles, to collect blood samples of people entering India via the border.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/FullcoverageStoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&id=53a0fe6f-82de-472d-aff9-6e4cd46e3067Swineflu_Special&Headline=Swine+flu%3a+Indo-Nepal+border+under+scanner

with the new flu to get avian flu superimposed on it, or vice versa. That mixing vat thing happens in humans, too.