Cuba announces first swine flu deaths (AFP) – 9 hours ago HAVANA — Cuba announced that three pregnant women died after contracting swine flu, the first report of A(H1N1) casualties on the communist island. “We unfortunately have to regret three confirmed cases of people who died” of swine flu, Deputy Health Minister Jose Angel Portal Miranda said on a television news program.
Mexico City. The number of fatal cases of swine flu in Mexico has risen from 119 to 121, but Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said Wednesday that spread of the virus is under control, AFP reports. The latest cases of the A(H1N1) virus appeared in the Yucatan and Chiapas regions of Mexico, but Minister Jose Angel Cordova said the “situation is under control.” Mexico, where the pandemic first emerged in April, was initially worst affected by the virus, but the United States has overtaken it
The measures were angrily denounced in Mexico, which was the center of the swine flu outbreak that has since spread around the world, and been declared a pandemic b y the World Health Organization (WHO)….”I regret that I did not talk first” to Minister Jose Angel Cordova, Chen said on the sidelines of a meeting in Cancun about the swine flu pandemic….
Nu exista potential pandemic decat in cazul in care se procedeaza la vaccinarea in masa, in intentia de a proteja populatia….
