Growing alarm in world swine flu, which has new cases of infection Mexico rose to eight deaths and 99 confirmed cases of swine flu, which claimed one

Growing alarm in world swine flu, which has new cases of infection

Mexico rose to eight deaths and 99 confirmed cases of swine flu, which claimed one victim in fatal United States, and adds more patients in the world, which led the WHO raised its alert level to an "imminent" risk pandemic. Continue reading the arículo
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"The cases of people affected by swine virus added 99, eight of which unfortunately died," said Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova, on Tuesday night in the regular daily press briefing.

The official said that 159 cases of deaths likely that Mexican authorities had been driving, only 84 remain to be confirmed, as they have been discarded over 70.

The virus developed rapidly. The Peruvian government announced a first in its territory after the evidence disclosed a argentina hospitalized with symptoms of this evil, who became the first person infected in South America.

Costa Rica became the first country in Latin America where he landed after the flu on Tuesday, two Costa Ricans who arrived from Mexico were diagnosed with the disease.

The World Health Organization (WHO) called on all countries to "immediately activate their plans for pandemic preparedness," which is "imminent," said its director general, Margaret Chan, to raise its warning to 5, the penultimate stage before the declaration of the global pandemic. "This virus is a new guy, very unpredictable," noted Chan.

WHO estimated in 148 cases in the world, including 8 deaths (7 in Mexico and 1 in the USA). These data are often less than the balances of the affected countries due to the processes of verification made by the agency.

Spanish Minister of Health, Trinidad Jimenez, announced that one of the 10 cases of swine flu identified in the country is a person who did not travel to Mexico. "It was an indirect contagion," he said.

The president Barack Obama as "worrying" but far from the "panic" generated by the swine flu in the United States, which confirmed the death of a Mexican child 22 months and increased the number of people affected to 91. "This causes us serious concern but not panic," he said at a press conference for his 100 days in power.

In addition, refused to close the border with Mexico, claiming that their health advisors had assured him that the measure would be meaningless because the virus has already landed in the United States. The president said that will make "every effort" to control its impact and that United States is "taking preventive measures" necessary.

Mexico reduced to the minimum public meetings to give battle to the epidemic which, according to estimates the U.S. authorities, causing a fall of 0.3% to 0.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Canada was detected in 6 cases, bringing the total to 19.

Apart from Spain, the H1N1 virus spread to other countries in Europe with three cases in Germany, Austria and one in five in Britain and one in Switzerland.

Amid the panic, several countries extreme measures against Mexico. Cuba suspended indefinitely the scheduled and charter flights to Mexico, Argentina and ordered the suspension of flights from Mexico until next Monday.

France, which had recommended not to travel to Mexico, like Italy, UK, Germany, Canada and Iran, asked the European Union to suspend flights there.

Ecuador-detected cases where no-declared state of emergency for 60 days, which means freeing human and financial resources. The measure was added to the suspension of charter flights to Mexico and the import of pigs and products from Mexico and United States, despite the WHO as "any person (was) contaminated pigs", because the virus is transmitted from person to person.

China, Thailand, Russia, Ukraine, most countries of the Balkans, Indonesia and Lebanon had taken similar action.

Egypt was more drastic and sacrifice announced "immediate" all the pigs in the country.