Swine flu: Was first victim a modern Typhoid Mary?

[BlueJessamine]

Source: The Independent

Authorities admit that census taker transmitted the virus door-to-door

By Guy Adams in Mexico City

The first person to die of swine flu was a 39-year-old tax inspector whose job required her to make door-to-door visits, putting her in contact with at least 300 unsuspecting members of the public when the disease was at its most virulent, Mexican authorities have said.

Maria Adela Gutierrez, a census-taker in the southern tourist city of Oaxaca, was admitted to a local hospital on 8 April and died five days later. She'd been suffering acute respiratory problems, exacerbated by diabetes and severe diarrhoea, and is believed to have infected scores of people.

The story of her death, which occurred three weeks before the virus was officially identified, came as Mexico remained on a state of high alert, with schools, government offices and many workplaces closed. The suspected death toll in Mexico reached 152 last night, with over 2,000 people infected. In the US the confirmed total of cases jumped to 64; California, with more than a dozen infected, declared a public health emergency and the World Health Organisation said it had notification of 79 confirmed cases worldwide.

Ms Gutierrez's demise may fuel controversy over Mexico's handling of the outbreak, which has been criticised as chaotic and secretive. Authorities at Oaxaca's Hospital Civil Aurelio Valdivieso, where she was treated, did not confirm that an infectious disease had broken out there until 21 April, by which time one further patient had also died.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/swine-flu-was-first-victim-a-modern-typhoid-mary-1675807.html

[mopinko]

1. no. the victim died. typhoid mary was not sickened by the disease she carried.

that would have been the whole problem.

[Kittycat]

4. Exactly - this woman just helped spread it.

[Robb]

5. Beat me to it. nt

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. If she died from the disease, she was not a Typhoid Mary

Mary Mallon spread the disease but never showed symptoms. Having a disease does not make one a Typhoid Mary.

[Turbineguy]

3. A tax inspector!

More tax cuts! The disease will go away if we only cut taxes!






On Edit: Sorry, maybe these freerepublic post threads are beginning to effect me.

[Festivito]

6. Recently vaccinated with a Baxter Pharmaceutical product?

Baxter, an International pharmaceutical company based in America, has just been caught mixing live Avian Flu virus (H5N1) with common flu virus, in a flu vaccine.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3853914

Probably not, but, the idea is certainly not unthinkable considering people who are willing to lie us into wars. But, so some say that they also have A/H1N1 sitting around.