Swine Flu Outbreak in the USA and Mexico

As of 7:30 pm Saturday, April 25, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed a total count of 11 cases of Swine Influenza A (H1N1) in the United States. This is a new virus which contains "genes from  North American swine and avian influenza, human influenza and swine influenza normally found in Asia and Europe" according to the chief of the CDC's Influenza Division. Of note is that none of the patients had contact with either people that had regular contact with pigs or pigs themselves. This strain of swine flu has also shown some resistance to antiviral drugs.

California has seven cases; Texas and Kansas each have two laboratory confirmed cases of the virus. At this time, there are currently eight unconfirmed cases of the Swine Flu in a private school, St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens, New York. Specimens have been obtained from the students and have been sent to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to confirm the presence of Swine Flu. According to Anne Schuchat, MD, the CDC's interim deputy director for science and public health program, declared at a news conference, "We are likely to find it [Swine Flu] in many other places. We don't think containment [of the virus] is feasible."

On the international front, in Mexico City 68 people have die pneumonia and 20 of these are a confirmed result from Swine Flu. Investigations, at this time, continue to see if these deaths are related to the recent outbreak of Swine Flu. Health officials in the US and Mexico are concerned because over 1,000 people have become infected in Mexico City in a short time span. The illness appears to be more virulent in Mexico that the US.

It is possible that President's Obama's trip may have been exposed to Swine Flu, as he was in Mexico at the approximate time of the initial outbreak. Apparently, the anthropologist that greeted Obama at the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, died the following day of flu-like symptoms. It has not been confirmed if the anthropologist, Felipe Solis, died of Swine Flu or not.

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