Saturday, May 9, 2009

Influenza A H1N1: Quick report Mexico

Official data:

- May 8, 8:45 hrs: Confirmed Cases: 1364 cases, 45 deaths. Yesterday they reported 3 deaths in Jalisco, possibly because of H1N1 virus. Today´s news anounced 3 more deaths (in Jalisco), the official data is still not on the Health Secretariat webpage.
- Jalisco, Guerrero, San Luis Potosí and Hidalgo states anounced that schools will not reopen on the 11th but on the 18th.
- Based on a Model (FluAid) authorities calculated the impact of the epidemic for the country without any intervention: 8,605 deaths, 30,380 hospitalizations (over the usual ones), above 4.5 million office visits in an 8 week period. The details are here: http://portal.salud.gob.mx/sites/salud/descargas/pdf/influenza/estimacion_del_impacto_potencial_080509.pdf%20
- Apparently this link will show a detailed report updated today: http://portal.salud.gob.mx/descargas/pdf/influenza/influenza_situacion_actual_09may.pdf but it is not working right now.

Non-official data
- Things are quite calm now, most people is back to "normal" except there are still these "sanitary" filters in schools and universities, also in work places, and other general measures.
- Apparently thursday and friday were quite calm in the hospitals, but apparently last night there was another number of visits with flu-like symptoms to a number of hospitals. I will confirm that later today.

Now people is speaking abouth different "theories"
- "This was `created` by our governmente.
- "This is political"
- Etc

The flow of information is slower and less extensive, although you can really go into the webpages and find more detailed information. For example:
- Recommendations for indigineous communities: http://www.inali.gob.mx/influenza.html in the different dialects here.
- Detailed information published everyday.

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