Thread: Swine Flu Outbreak in El Paso, USA and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Swine Flu Outbreak in El Paso, USA and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Submitted by Jonathan Sanders on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 12:02 HealthTNMMexico

H1N1 swine flu outbreak has been noticed in El Paso, USA and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. More than 3 people were reported with the condition. An Epidemiologist from El Paso Department of Health ensured that they will take care of the condition and people should not worry about it.

Meanwhile, in Ciudad Juarez (state of Chihuahua), 2 were killed; one male and one female, and many others are suffering from H1N1.

Chihuahua authorities confirmed that in El Paso there were 357 flu cases, of which three had H1N1 virus, though in February 302 flu cases were reported out of which 26 had H1N1 virus.

Ciudad Juarez launched a vaccination campaign because of the H1N1 epidemic. Authorities revealed that 4,800 vaccines will be authorized to citizens and government employees. In Chihuahua, it was announced that around 4,000 citizens will be vaccinated.

According to the local media, 25 suspected cases with H1N1 have been reported on the Mexican side of border.

According to Jose Angel Cordova, Health Secretary, the flu cases in Ciudad are believed to be related with the increased flu rates in Texas.
http://topnews.us/content/237666-h1n1-s ... rez-mexico

Mexican governor says new H1N1 outbreak came from US
by Staff Writers
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (AFP) March 28, 2011

A new outbreak of H1N1 in northern Mexico, which left four dead in the past week, originated in the southern United States, the Chihuahua state governor said Monday.

"It has been confirmed that the woman who died in Chihuahua was on a trip from the (US) state of Texas. Also, those infected in Ciudad Juarez were all linked to trips to the United States or contact with US citizens," Cesar Duarte told journalists Monday.

Duarte said that 18 deaths of people suffering from H1N1 flu had been recorded this year in the US border states of Texas and New Mexico, according to information his office received from US authorities.

Mexican authorities have started a vaccination campaign in northern Chihuahua and ruled out the risk of an emergency on a similar scale to 2009, when Mexico raised the first H1N1 alert.

Swine flu -- so named because it was first identified in pigs -- has killed some 18,500 people since emerging in April 2009, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

An H1N1 outbreak was also recently detected in Venezuela, where health authorities said 415 people had contracted the virus, and three people with H1N1 had died this year.
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Swine flu.....blast from the past....that started in Mexico......Not here, the name "H1N1" name change came from here the Mexicans were embarrassed about it. It has always been the SWINE FLU!!! A Pig by any other name is still a Pig...lipstick or not...


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