Muertes Por Virus H1N1

SITUATION: The story officially begins April 21, 2009 with a magazine report about Morbidity and Mortality Weekly (MMWR, for its acronym in English). It announced the appearance of two cases offebrile respiratory illness. These corresponded to a 10 year old boy and a 9 year old girl in the state of California.
Samples from both patients 13, and 17 April respectively were analyzed, and foundthat it was an influenza A virus negative-known subtypes H1N1 (seasonal), H3N2 and H5N1, and therefore were sent to the CDC in Atlanta. On April 17 it was determined that it was a virus of swine originInfluenza A two genes of Eurasian lineage
On April 23, the news in Mexico has announced the same virus, described in California, had been found in samples from patients in Mexico, processed in thelaboratories of Winnipeg in Canada and the CDC in Atlanta, USA. In addition, there had been at least 20 deaths in patients treated in hospitals with clinical Mexicans viral pneumonia. Based on thisinformation, it was decided the immediate closure of public and private schools at all educational levels, from kindergarten to university, and implemented various measures to promote social isolation.During the following days, they reported the presence of cases in other states of the country, like Oaxaca, San Luis Potosi and Mexico State. Then it was thought that the first case of the new diseasewas that of a woman who was admitted and died at a hospital in the city of Oaxaca on April 13. However, two days later, the news published that a child resident of the community of La Gloria, in themunicipality of Perote, Veracruz, was the first case of the new influenza, who fell ill during the first week of April and laboratory test was positive.
Meanwhile, the disease spread in the UnitedStates and Canada, and crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to reach Spain, England and New Zealand. As ever in the history of mankind, the phenomenon was exacerbated by the mass media, causing...