Four-year-old could hold key in search for source of swine flu outbreak

[babsbunny]

Four-year-old could hold key in search for source of swine flu outbreak

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/27/swine-flu-search-outbreak-source
Jo Tuckman

Case confirmed in village in east Mexico where sixty per cent of residents fell ill

A Mexican village whose inhabitants were overwhelmed by an outbreak of respiratory illness starting in February has emerged as a possible source of the swine flu outbreak which has now spread across the world.

The state government of Veracruz in eastern Mexico has confirmed one case of swine flu in the village of La Gloria with the sufferer named locally as a four-year-old boy, Edgar Hernandez Hernandez. The federal government said tonight that he tested positive for the same strain of the virus which has claimed lives in Mexico.

[d_b]

1. this is turning into an episode of House

[myrna minx]

3. I shouldn't have laughed but I did.

I read the article and it's just so tragic that so many people have died. Sometimes dark humor gets you through tragedy.

[mshasta]

2. also said that...

Mexico's national public health authority, the Mexican social security institute, ----raised concerns that waste from the Granjas Carrol facility may be responsible for the outbreak of illness, according to local media.----


----"According to state agents of the Mexican social security institute, the vector of this outbreak are the clouds of flies that come out of the hog barns, and the waste lagoons into which the Mexican-US company spews tons of excrement," reported Mexico City newspaper La Jornada.-----

:grr: ...always using other countries with less health regulations

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. We have similar waste lagoons around our own

pig farms

They are a problem

THat water is SO DAMN TOXIC that you can and will die if you fall in

Just thought I'd point this out

My only nervousness about this are the early cases in the States... and of course HOW did it come to the border before mexico city