The virus moves to South America / swine flu

The virus moves south
A man uses a mask in San Salvador after the confirmation of the Salvadoran Government that there are two confirmed cases of influenza A in the country. / Efe
The vast majority of cases are located in Mexico, United States and Canada
Infections detected are related to people who traveled the country azteca
The influenza A virus is moving into the (hemisphere) south, where the winter will start soon, which favors a flu outbreak, has warned the deputy director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Keiji Fukuda. According to latest statistics from the Organization, cases of influenza A in laboratory tests confirmed the 1005 total, including 26 deaths in 20 countries.
The vast majority of cases are located in Northern America (Mexico, United States and Canada), while in Asia, Europe and Latin America detected infections are related to people who traveled the country Aztec, as the expert said at a press conference .
With respect to Spain and United Kingdom, the two European countries with the largest number of people infected, has stressed that it is "travel-related cases." "We are not sure when we move to Phase 6" maximum on the scale of the WHO pandemic alert, "or whether we will," said Fukuda to the insistent questions from journalists about what seems the inevitable statement of a pandemic. "If the virus moves to the southern hemisphere when this happens? It's just very difficult to predict and I would not want to raise false expectations," he said.
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The assistant director has insisted that other representatives of the WHO been saying for days: that maximize the level of alert would reveal that there is an easy and regular transmission of the virus from person to person in more than one region of the world, but would not be an indicator that the disease is severe. "The idea is to determine how far the virus has spread," he insisted.
With regard to what appears to be a decrease in the incidence of influenza in New Mexico, the Deputy Director of the WHO has noted that "there is confusion over this phenomenon is that people imagine that a pandemic emerges in all sites at the same time. " As explained, is a misconception because what can happen in a pandemic is that the virus in some places a strong record and reach peaks, while in others the opposite is true.
Fukuda reiterated that this is what happens with the seasonal influenza epidemics, which take place in the hemisphere is in winter, and has warned that with this new virus is likely that this pattern is repeated.