", ie, oseltamivir and zanamivir.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl, has called "avoid rumors that could distort the facts" in relation to any new outbreaks of swine flu. To a question about a suspected case detected in China, said that "for now this is a rumor."
The global health alert level was increased in the last 3 to 4 hours (on a scale up to 6), which means that there has been a transmission of the virus from person to person so that outbreaks can occur at the community level. This epidemic, which has affected two young men in Spain, has, so far, 152 deaths in Mexico, the country most affected by the swine flu.
Hartl has reiterated that WHO does not recommend travel restrictions and border closures, because "in terms of public health when traveling you can not refer to each person to a medical examination and expect to stop the disease."
"If someone has a fever and cough, it can be for many other reasons. Moreover, if a person is infected with this virus, there may be no symptoms," explained the spokesman. For that reason, has emphasized, "the travel restrictions are not working."
This virus is incubated from two to six days and severe symptoms are slow to appear five days, and at that stage when you enter in a dangerous period. " However, Hartl has stressed that "it is prudent for the governments tell their citizens to think twice before going to affected areas."
In Mexico the infection is transmitted in small communities
In Mexico "is clear," says the WHO, the infection is transmitted within small communities, while there is "suspicion of a transmission between humans in other places, where there was no contact with pigs," as in United States , but has clarified that "we do not yet have an official confirmation on this matter."
Clarified that transmission between people appears to have happened at a school in New York, although we expect official confirmation from the authorities. "
On the high mortality of the virus in Mexico, Hartl said that experts have not yet found an explanation, and argues that this infection may be complicated by pre-existing infections and make it more severe.
According to the spokesman for the WHO, "perhaps not recognizing the disease. When it has never seen a disease, doctors do not know how to treat it," adding that "those who are at the beginning of an outbreak are most vulnerable." The spokesman has clarified, however, that Mexico "has significant reserves of Tamiflu (oseltamivir).
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl, has called "avoid rumors that could distort the facts" in relation to any new outbreaks of swine flu. To a question about a suspected case detected in China, said that "for now this is a rumor."
The global health alert level was increased in the last 3 to 4 hours (on a scale up to 6), which means that there has been a transmission of the virus from person to person so that outbreaks can occur at the community level. This epidemic, which has affected two young men in Spain, has, so far, 152 deaths in Mexico, the country most affected by the swine flu.
Hartl has reiterated that WHO does not recommend travel restrictions and border closures, because "in terms of public health when traveling you can not refer to each person to a medical examination and expect to stop the disease."
"If someone has a fever and cough, it can be for many other reasons. Moreover, if a person is infected with this virus, there may be no symptoms," explained the spokesman. For that reason, has emphasized, "the travel restrictions are not working."
This virus is incubated from two to six days and severe symptoms are slow to appear five days, and at that stage when you enter in a dangerous period. " However, Hartl has stressed that "it is prudent for the governments tell their citizens to think twice before going to affected areas."
In Mexico the infection is transmitted in small communities
In Mexico "is clear," says the WHO, the infection is transmitted within small communities, while there is "suspicion of a transmission between humans in other places, where there was no contact with pigs," as in United States , but has clarified that "we do not yet have an official confirmation on this matter."
Clarified that transmission between people appears to have happened at a school in New York, although we expect official confirmation from the authorities. "
On the high mortality of the virus in Mexico, Hartl said that experts have not yet found an explanation, and argues that this infection may be complicated by pre-existing infections and make it more severe.
According to the spokesman for the WHO, "perhaps not recognizing the disease. When it has never seen a disease, doctors do not know how to treat it," adding that "those who are at the beginning of an outbreak are most vulnerable." The spokesman has clarified, however, that Mexico "has significant reserves of Tamiflu (oseltamivir).
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