WHO: The quantity of infected with the flu H1N1 doubles
Fear for the cases in Asia. The virus could be mixed with the Aviar flu.
Hong Kong and South Korea registered the first 2 cases in Asia.
There are 615 cases of infection already declared in 15 countries, yesterday there were 331.
Italy is the last country that joins the list, a person from the locality of Massa (west part of the country) turn out positive in the tests realized by the Institute of Health, according to the report of Italian medias.
The new flu came to the Asian Continent. Hong Kong was detecting the first one infected in this continent, and during the dawn of this Saturday, South Korea confirmed other inside its borders.
In Hong Kong the infected person is a Mexican patient who came to the Chinese city in a flight proceeding from Shangai. The patient along with another three partners who were traveling together, are isolated in a hospital. In South Korea, a 51-year-old woman that recently had traveled to Mexico, began to feel the symptoms of the flu.
It only takes one more case in Africa in order to call it a pandemia. For the WHO “the Asian southeast is the big laboratory of virus of the flu of the world, they send his experts to the Asian southeast six months earlier. There they take samples in birds, other animals and in persons. And, with this information, they foresee the composition of the vaccine for the following year”.
The WHO, is afraid that the flu A exchanges genetic information with the virus of the avian flu. “There are thousand possible combinations, but if it maintains its capacity for being transmitted between persons and incorporating the fatality of the H5N1 (Aviar Flu), the perspectives would be frightening. Also it simply might be diluted, and wait to reappear with the seasonal flu of the next winter”.
Two countries informed that they had registered cases that had not become infected from Mexico: England and Germany. The British Government confirmed throughout the Saturday dawn, that 13 British citizens are infected by the H1N1 (Swine Flu). Liam Donaldson, principal medical adviser of the Government of London, announced that “there have been confirmed in England and Scotland the first two cases not imported from Mexico”
For the time being, there are only mortal victims in Mexico, except for the child who died in Texas, who was taken by his parents to be hospitalized there. In Spain, the numbers are the following ones: 108 cases in investigation and 13 confirmed.
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