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The media have perceived the “patient zero” of the disease to a child five years old who fell ill on April 2 from the town of La Gloria, Veracruz, Mexico. The reality is that before that there were many others affected by this virulent flu.
In early March, the flu that resulted in many cases, breathing problems affecting 60 of residents of La Gloria. However, there have been no confirmed cases of swine flu in the city. 77 La Gloria is located near a pig farm that breed each year about one million pigs. The owner of the pig farm, Smithfield Foods, said that there was no clinical signs or symptoms of swine flu in pigs owned by the Company, or its employees and that the company routinely administered vaccine Influenzavirus his herd of pigs and monthly testing for the presence of swine flu.
The start of the outbreak was detected in Mexico, D. F., where surveillance started to notice a sudden increase in cases of a flu-like illness from March 18. The Mexican authorities attributed this increase to a late flu season, which coincides usually with a slight increase of Influenzavirus B until the day April 21, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) United States gave the alarm to the media about two isolated cases of a new swine flu. The first two confirmed cases were two children living in the United States (in San Diego and Imperial County, California) who became ill on 28 and March 30 respectively. 84 This new strain was confirmed immediately in Mexico related to the increase in flu tardia. The first death due to swine flu occurred on April 13, when a natural diabetic women of Oaxaca died for respiratory complications. were sent some samples to the CDC on April 18. Some cases in the United States and Mexico have been identified by the World Health Organization as one of the H1N1 strain never seen before.
In March and April 2009, there were more than 1000 suspected cases of swine flu in humans in Mexico and the Southwestern United States. Have also been reported in the states of San Luis Potosi, Hidalgo, Queretaro and Mexico State, in central Mexico. The strain appears to be unusually deadly in Mexico, which has caused 149 deaths (26 confirmed), 91 mainly in Mexico City. The dead Mexicans were mainly young adults between 25 and 45 years. Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said the following on April 24: “We are dealing with a new flu virus which is a respiratory epidemic (although it is controllable).”