Swine Flu Update

Date: 4/28/2009

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518196,00.html

Source: FOX News

Main Points: The information in bold is important.

1. The Los Angeles County coroner's office is investigating two recent deaths for links to swine flu.
2. Coroner's Capt. John Kades says tests are being run on two bodies to see if swine flu was a factor in their deaths, but there is no confirmation that the disease killed them.
3. The Los Angeles Times reports on its Web site that both men's deaths were reported to the coroner's office on Monday.
4. Coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey told the paper that a Bellflower hospital reported the death of a 33-year-old Long Beach man who was brought in Saturday with symptoms resembling swine flu.
5. The other death was a 45-year-old La Mirada man who died April 22 at a Norwalk hospital.
6. The World Heath Organization has now confirmed person-to-person transmission of the swine flu virus in the United States.
7. The WHO said some students in New York City infected with swine flu had not traveled to Mexico and must have contracted the disease from classmates who had recently returned from a trip to the country.
8. That is significant because it suggests the swine flu virus that is suspected in dozens of deaths in Mexico is now strong enough to be passed among people in other countries, raising the likelihood of a flu pandemic.
9. There had been suspicions that the diseases were being passed from human to human outside of Mexico, but this is the first confirmation.
10. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there are now 64 confirmed cases of swine flu in the U.S., while state officials reported at least four more.
11. The state of Indiana is reporting a new confirmed case, but Indiana's health commissioner said the infected person was "doing well." In addition to 28 confirmed swine flu cases in New York City, health officials say they're also investigating a possible cluster of swine flu cases at a special education school in Queens.
12. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday there are five new suspected cases; one of which is related to the Queens high school outbreak and two more under investigation. There is a 2-year-old boy in the Bronx in the hospital and is recovering, Bloomberg said, and he has an older brother who also exhibited flu symptoms, but tests for the flu are not complete.
13. Orlando may have a case swine flu. Chief medical officer for Adventist Health System, Loran Hauck, told WFTV-Orlando the case was diagnosed Tuesday morning.
14. "A case was diagnosed here in Orlando today on a tourist from Mexico who came to Disney attractions two days ago to visit," Hauck wrote in an email obtained by Eyewitness News WFTV.
15. The CDC and state health officials have not confirmed the Orlando case.
16. Officials from New Jersey, South Carolina and North Carolina say those states have "suspected" cases.
17. Dr. Nancy Cox of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said she believes the earliest onset of swine flu in the United States happened on March 28. Cordova said a sample taken from a 4-year-old boy in Mexico's Veracruz State in early April tested positive for swine flu. However, it is not known when the boy, who later recovered, became infected.

Comments: I really hope I am wrong, but this is only the beginning of the swine flu. A pandemic (Phase 6) will be issued within a couple of weeks.

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