Saturday, May 16, 2009

Health Organization: the high incidence and mortality of new influenza

Saturday, May 16

ZURICH (Reuters) - World Health Organization said on Saturday that the number of confirmed human cases (H 1 to 1) new 8451 jumped to 66 wounded, including the case of the death.

The organization said that the States that have declared the emergence of cases of HIV infections is widely known as the swine flu rose to 36 after the state confirmed that Ecuador and Peru, the first cases in each.

Showed the vast majority of cases in Mexico and the United States.


And the payment of the spread of the disease to the WHO announcement that the epidemic has become imminent.

The organization raised in the 29 April state of alert in anticipation of the spread of the epidemic to the fifth grade on a scale of 6 degrees.


Said Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization on Friday said there was "considerable uncertainty" about the new strain continued to proliferate may constitute a particular risk in South-East Asia.


Then, U.S. health officials said later they were down they have adopted warnings against travel to Mexico.


And follow the behavior of the new virus strains of seasonal flu, which spread rapidly causing symptoms slightly sick people and most severe at the other.



Cause seasonal flu in the death of 500 thousand people annually, mostly the elderly and those suffering from respiratory problems such as asthma.



The organization reported that Mexico had declared 2895 as the emergence of the virus confirmed cases including 60 deaths.


The United States has about 4714 injured, including four deaths.

Canada confirmed a case of 496 in addition to the nine cases in Costa Rica and in the event of the death of each.

من سانجيف ميلجاني By Sanjeev Migani

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