Lois Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 GOV/MIL - Dozens in Mexican city ill with suspected avian flu Please be aware this is not verified http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=57868 Friday, September 28, 2007 Dozens in Mexican city ill with suspected avian flu Raises concerns over international implications of epidemic Posted: September 28, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com Dozens of people in a Mexican city are gravely ill with what is being treated as a possible outbreak of avian flu, according to a new report from a Spanish-language website. El Universal is confirming that authorities in a neighborhood in Guanajuato 45 patients have been given medical attention at the area's hospital after they reported symptoms including extreme headaches, stomachaches, vomiting, diarrhea and other weaknesses. The cases have developed over the last two weeks, and "feel [like] death," according to Silvia Villalobos, one of the victims who spoke to El Universal correspondent Xochitl Alvarez in Spanish. A spokesman for the regional general hospital, Ernesto Castle, indicated he does not know the cause of the problems, but officials are looking at an avian flu virus, which is transmitted by birds and is similar to botulism, as a source. He reported at least 45 patients have been given emergency room medical attention, while other individuals went to their private physicians for help. One man reported his wife was hospitalized after the symptoms hit, waking her with fever and chills, before she fainted. Guadalupe Gomez, a resident of the area, said her concern was that the epidemic was being carried by flies attracted by leather processed in the tanning industry, which includes leathers from other nations. City spokesman Jose Eusebio Olague said officials have directed that barricades be set up so that the sick do not spread the infections even further. Traditional causes for fever and chills essentially have been ruled out by various tests, officials said. Sources in the air, water and other industries have been eliminated as a cause, officials said. This specific situation already was addressed at the recent Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit in Canada, where officials released a plan that establishes U.N. law along with regulations by the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme over U.S. law during a pandemic. It also sets the stage for militarizing the management of continental health emergencies. The "North American Plan for Avian & Pandemic Influenza" was finalized at the SPP summit last month in Montebello, Quebec. More at link Link to comment
Cowgirl Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 It will be interesting to see if this is confirmed. I rather doubt it. It seems highly unlikely that avian flu would be spread by flies around a leather plant. Are they processing huge amounts of ostrich leather? Could the virus make the jump to humans from ostrich skins, even if the birds were infected? Hard to say. What we have is some conjecture from non-medical officials about why people got sick. The news source seems questionable, as it reports without questioning (or correcting) that avian flu is similar to botulism. Good reporting is so rare!!! Link to comment
Becca_Anne Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Isn't botulism a bacteria not a virus? It will be interesting to see if we hear much more about this one. I'm going to forward this to EffectMeasure's blog and see what he has to say about it. Link to comment
goatherder Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Check out the tri-lateral agreement (Canada, Mexico, US) http://www.spp.gov/pdf/nap_flu07.pdf Botulism is a bacteria caused illness. I don't know how anyone could confuse it with the flu though. It is a paralytic condition, not respiratory. BTW - botulism has been identified as a potential bioterrorism threat (back in 2003) more info http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/botulism/ Link to comment
Lois Posted September 29, 2007 Author Share Posted September 29, 2007 I agree on the fact that it is not likely to be avian flu. Just the fact that 45 people in one area are all sick at the same time is an indication that we need to be aware. Food poisoning is bad news. Link to comment
preparing Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 "The last three influenza pandemics, in 1918, 1957 and 1968, killed approximately 40 million, two million and one million people worldwide, respectively." I got this quote from your article and does anybody remember pandemics in 1957 and 1968? I was 2 and 13. I remember being sick when I was around 13 or 14 and had to get a shot of penicillin for the first time in my life. I thought they said I might have pneumonia. I remember fever and something with my chest, and was really weak when I went outside for a walk when I first got over it. Link to comment
Cowgirl Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 1968 was the Hong Kong flu. It was a pretty nasty flu, but nothing like the 1918 flu. I got that one. High fever. 1959 was called the asian flu. I didn't get that one, but my understanding of it was that it was another pretty rough flu. Link to comment
preparing Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 I probably had pneumonia and not the Hong Kong flu. I remember the name now and that is not what I had. Nobody else in my house had what I had. I think I was 15 or 16 and not 13 or 14. I just remember the town now and what year I moved there. I was sick closer to 1970. Link to comment
westbrook Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 did anyone actually read this? I did! here is my take on it!!!! MISSING Pages!!! I can't get back to it now as my computer has been giving me fits! "Problem Page Not Found" over and over... but... and maybe it is my computer.. but.. I went to page 22 -- Stockpiling and it is missing! oh the page marker is there but the page is blank! I read before and after to make sure is just wasn't a fluke.. but there are several pages missing. When I went back to count my computer locked up and I can't get back into it. The fact the only thing I am interested in is their take on 'stockpiling' and it is gone makes me wonder???? is it not written or it is not for public viewing? my inquiring mind wants to know more! Link to comment
goatherder Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 I didn't have any trouble finding it. Stockpiles While the three countries may have different goals for their respective pandemic influenza medical stockpiles, they should work together to do the following: • Share information on their strategies to stockpile materials related to pandemic influenza, in particular: Share their publicly available stockpiling goals for pandemic influenza countermeasures and other pandemic influenza medical materials, and * Chapter 4: Pandemic Influenza 22 Where possible, share their planning and/or modeling assumptions used when determining the contents of their pandemic influenza medical stockpiles; • Cooperate with one another in the development of their stockpiles of material related to pandemic influenza: Identify areas in which they need technical assistance in the development of national stockpiles, and Meet annually to identify areas in which they need additional cooperation; • Share shelf-life extension strategies; • Share strategies on the mass distribution of stockpile material: Share their methods for distributing stockpile material, and Identify distribution challenges and alternative distribution strategies; and • Share best practices on the current use of, and issues related to, stockpiles: Share allocation strategies for the use of a pandemic influenza vaccine and antivirals, as developed and updated, and Share antiviral strategies for containing an initial focus of novel influenza virus of pandemic potential, as developed and updated. Link to comment
Cat Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 **pats Westie's hand...*** Honey, I think they've HEARD of you... Link to comment
BiscuitMaker Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 The Dallas Morning News Sept, 30 2007 Dengue fever epidemic strikes Latin America, Mexico's toll rising: 3,249 cases confirmed so far. Link to comment
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