Mexico: Swine flu toll stabilizing

[DainBramaged]

The toll from the swine flu epidemic appears to be stabilizing in Mexico, the health secretary said late Tuesday, with only seven more suspected deaths. But an outbreak of the virus at a New York school showed it is capable of repeated jumps between humans — meaning it can keep spreading around the world.

The new virus is suspected in 159 deaths and 2,498 illnesses across Mexico, said Health Secretary Jose Cordova, who called the death toll "more or less stable" even as hospitals are swamped with people who think they have swine flu. And he said only 1,311 suspected swine flu patients remain hospitalized, a sign that treatment works for people who get medical care quickly.

The positive news came even as the first two countries announced travel bans on flights from Mexico, the center of the epidemic, and as confirmed cases were reported for the first time as far away as New Zealand and Israel, joining the United States, Canada, Britain and Spain.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682/

OK, thanks for the panic, time to talk about, politics again.

[Hannah Bell]

1. hey, thanks. i was just about to kick my own post saying the same -

as antidote to those still blathering on about quarantines, worlds w/o humans.....

[Control-Z]

14. Wow, did people really blather those things?

Show me.

[Control-Z]

19. I'm still waiting to see all those blathering posts/posters.

Please show me. I haven't seen one, let alone the mobs you claim. Are there any? Honestly?

You've been demeaning these people, these blathering people, who go "on about quarantines, worlds w/o humans....."

Show me.

[Hannah Bell]

20. if they don't exist, as say, then what the heck do *you* care?

just leave me to my delusions.

hey, great news, though, wot?

we might not all be going to die!

[Control-Z]

22. Waiting.....

I really haven't seen any of them. I feel as though I'm missing whatever it was that set you off.

Please show me.

[Hannah Bell]

23. you seem to believe i'm obliged to do your bidding.

thanks for kicking the thread. everyone should hear this good news!

[Control-Z]

24. ...

:rofl:

These people don't exist here, do they?

[Hannah Bell]

25. no, it's just my imagination...running away with me... love the roly-poly smiley. how clever of you

to think of it. never seen anything quite like it.

[DainBramaged]

26. Stop trying to start a fight

They were here en masse over the weekend, the 'experts' who claimed we were all gonna die horrible pork death.

[Control-Z]

28. Asking for links to back up

an accusation it not trying to start a fight. It is trying to understand the insults and name calling.

[DainBramaged]

32. SAUSAGE, well you asked for links................

YUMYUMYUMYUMYUMYUM

[tekisui]

29. I never saw any of those either.

I saw people posting the reports, much like you have in this OP. No more, no less. When the story broke, many said that we have no way of knowing where it could go, and that was(and still is) true.

I never read, here, that we were all going to die horrible pork deaths or a world without humans, and definitely not en masse.

[aquart]

2. Very good news.

Let's see what happens in October.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Facts don't matter

but he was late to the party, and I didn't even read it on the MSM, but El Universal

They also found 13 of the confirmed cases were presumptive, at CDC when Manitoba found them positive,

IF that is the case (I expect them next to go to Stockholm) the death rate is also lower than first expected

Never mind that if the flu establishes itself OUTSIDE Mexico, like it is appearing to do in NYC... that raises concerns as well

So it is a mixture of good and bad news

And why some of us have been following the numbers not that our "Friend" got it no matter how many times we tried to splain that

[Hannah Bell]

5. blah-blah, the "numbers", blah-blah, the "facts"

MEXICO CITY – The number of deaths authorities are blaming on Mexico’s swine-flu outbreak stood at 155 on Tuesday, though only 20 of those fatalities have been definitively linked to the A/H1N1 virus...

...the secretary had said at a press conference that the panorama was “hopeful,” since the death rate due to the outbreak of swine flu had fallen over the past three days.

He also said that there had been a reduction in the number of people infected in the last few hours, since on Monday there were 110 cases compared with 119 on Sunday and 141 on Saturday.

Cordova said that starting Tuesday laboratory tests will start in Mexico to confirm the presence in patients of the A/H1N1 virus, since up to now samples have been send outside the country because of the lack of equipment for making the diagnosis here.

He said that by Wednesday, when additional equipment is due to arrive, Mexico will be able to carry out as many as 600,000 tests per day.

Mexico City’s mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, said Tuesday that since Saturday the cases of probable contagion of swine flu in the capital have diminished....Nonetheless, between Monday night and Tuesday morning, three more deaths were recorded that could have been caused by the disease, as well as 31 probable infections.

...On Monday 14 people were released from hospital, the highest figure since the epidemic began, although 89 patients remain hospitalized with symptoms compatible with those of swine flu.

The city’s health secretary, Armando Ahued, said that only 29 of the 6,610 people who went to clinics Monday complaining of flu symptoms required hospitalization.


http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=333191&Catego...

[Hannah Bell]

4. oooooh! october!

[BlooInBloo]

6. Yup - and if not enough die by then, they'll say wait til next October....

Sooner or later, the panic-mongering we'reallgonnadie cheerleaders will be right. And that'll teach us.

[DainBramaged]

7. I am so sick of the 'I told you so's' here, oh wait, they have NOTHING to tell me about

I guess their 'exponential' death scenario isn't panning out for them..........

AND I see ignored people too!

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. I wasn't going to answer but riddle me this, you THINK That the measures

taken by the Mexican Guv'ment have NOTHING to do with this

If you do, you show how little you understand of this

YES, essentially they quarantined the WHOLE CITY

GET IT NOW

Or are you that ignorant?

By the way, we all hoped to be wrong

And I am not breathing easy YET EITHER

[Hannah Bell]

9. you're saying no one is allowed to travel in or out of mexico city? really? are you sure?

[hedgehog]

31. Mexico City in state of de facto quarantine amid swine flu fears

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2009/04/26/9254821.html

[BostonMa]

12. ridiculous

[SidDithers]

27. Of course you see ignored people...

you've *clicked* half the board.

Sid

[TheMadMonk]

11. There are those parts of the world moving into their flu seasons.

Australia and New Zealand come to mind. Maybe because I live in the former.

The potential is there. Will the potential become reality? Only time will tell. We can certainly hope not. AND take some reasonable precautions to reduce the chances.

Some people are over the top in their dire predictions, just as others are way too complacently blase in declaring nothing will come of it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. The masks, an expert today said something that I found interesting

their use, though marginally useful, make those who are blasé take it more seriously and those who'd panic feel empowered

:-)

Take care and unlike our friends here, NYC is not out of the woods either

(And here is a piece of trivia to you, why they made the comment about october... the three other major outbreaks came in waves, the first two well defined, the third one not so much... the first wave was relatively mild)

Stay safe, wash hands, listen to local authorities

The adults are at work

[amandabeech]

30. Parts of South America are probably moving to their flu season, too.

Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, parts of Brazil and some Andean countries like Bolivia and parts of Peru may also be going into flu season.

My understanding is that there is quite a bit of commercial travel between Mexico and South American countries that might spread the flu.

[safeinOhio]

10. Good deal

I won't have to use up all of my Y2K supplies.

[bottomtheweaver]

13. And next week we'll be back to shootings

unless it's time for a plane crash.

[MidwestTransplant]

16. Close schools and restaurants, people stay home and less flu.

[Hannah Bell]

17. there you go. one day closure - presto-chango.

[Hannah Bell]

18. kicking this one too. for the concerned folks who want information. good news!

we're probably not going to die! yay!

[conspirator]

21. Once again the sky didn't fall nt