Washington - A 23-month-old baby became the first Texas swine flu death victim. It is confirmed outside Mexico as authorities worldwide fight to contain a growing threat to global health, Officials states the death was in Houston.
"Although we are expecting that this is really, really bad," Dr. Richard Besser, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday the death of children. "As a pediatrician and a parent, my heart goes out to the family."
President Barack Obama said today that Americans should know that the government is doing all it can contain viruses. Obama also says schools should consider whether the closing spread of the virus of swine influenza WORSENS.
Canada, Austria, New Zealand, Israel, Spain, Britain and Germany have also reported cases of swine flu illness. Deaths reported so far have been limited to Mexico, and now the U.S.
While the United States grappled with the expanding health crisis, Besser went from network to network Wednesday morning to provide an update of what makes Obama administration. He said authorities are still in essence "trying to learn more about them strain of flu." His appearances as Germany reported its first cases of influenza infection in pigs, with three victims.
"It is very important for people to take their concern and channel it into action," Besser said, adding that "it is important that people understand what to do if symptoms appear.
"I think it (death reported in Texas) shows that any change in the stretch," he said. "We see the flu virus each spectrum symptoms of disease."
Asked why the problem appears more serious in Mexico, Besser said U.S. officials "have a team on earth, a tri-national team in Mexico, working in Canada and Mexico, to try and understand the difference, because they can help us plan our audit and implement strategies. "
Sixty-six infections were reported in the United States before the report of the infant death in Texas.
The world is no vaccine to prevent infection, but health officials of the U.S. with an important element for a ready in early May, stride vaccine producer is waiting. But even the World Health Organization vaccine supplies ordered an emergency - and that decision is not finished yet - it will take at least two months to make more of the shots needed for the safety of people in the first trial .
"We are working together at 100 miles per hour to get materials that will be useful," Dr. Jesse Goodman, who oversees the Food and Drug Administration to work with swine flu, told The Associated Press.
The U.S. is sending countries not only sufficient for the anti-flu drugs for 11 million people, but also masks, hospital supplies and flu test kits. Barack Obama President asked Congress for $ 1.5 billion in emergency funds to help generate more drug stockpiles and monitor future cases, as well as to assist international efforts to avert a full-pag revolt.
"This is a very serious, but it is still too early to say this is inevitable," the WHO influenza chief is, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, said in a telephone interview.
Cuba and Argentina stop flight to Mexico, where the swine flu was suspected of killing more than 150 people and sickening during 2000. The less good news, Mexico's Health Secretary Jose Cordova, called late Tuesday the death toll was "more or less stable."
Mexico City, one of the largest cities in the world, drastic steps to block virus' spread, starting with closing schools and on Tuesday to expand palaestra closures and swimming pool and restaurants said that limited the takeout service. People who often wear masks from the jobbery the expectations of protection.
The swine flu confirmed cases in the United States rose to 66 in six states, with 45 in New York, 11 in California, six in Texas, two in Kansas and one in Indiana and Ohio, but the cities and states suspected of others. New York, city health commissioner said that "the hundreds" schoolchildren were included in a school where students are confirmed several cases.
WHO argues against closing the borders to stem the spread, and the U.S. - even coming Travelers for checking that patients may need care - admits it is too late for such tactics.
"-Sign of the border as a means of containment is a matter that was discussed was our assumption must be planning a revolt by a new strain of influenza occurring overseas. We have plans to try to swoop in and knockout, or close the mouth event an outbreak is occurring far from our borders. It will not happen here, "Besser said telephone briefing Nevada-based health providers and journalists. "The idea of trying to limit the spread in Mexico is not at all likely or possible."
"Border controls are not working. Travel restrictions do not work," WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl in Geneva said, recalling the outbreak of SARS at the beginning of the decade, which killed 774 people, mainly in Asia, and slowing global economy.
Authorities sought to hold in the context of crisis: flu deaths are common worldwide. U.S. alone, the CDC says about 36,000 people a year die from causes related to influenza. Still, the CDC calls a combination of new strain pork, fowl and people with the virus that person may have limited natural freedom.
Thus the need for a vaccine. Using flu samples taken from people who fell ill in Mexico and the U.S., scientists are engineering a strain that can cause immune system without causing disease. The hope is to get the parts - called "reference strain" vaccine in the jargon - the producer of the second week of May, so they can begin the laborious production of their work , said Dr. Ruben Donis of the CDC, which is leading this effort.
Vaccine manufacturers are only beginning to develop next regular winter flu vaccine, which protects against three human influenza strains. WHO these to stay on course for now - is not calling for a mass production of swine flu vaccine if the outbreak WORSENS globally. But sometimes the new flu strains that pop up briefly at the end of a flu season and lost only to appear again next fall, and ultimately should have a vaccine in time for next winter by the flu season, Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health in infectious disease chief, said Tuesday.
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