The 27 days of historical pandemia alert it´s over in Mexico
Mexico City.- The 27 days period since 24 april to 21 may 2009 is gonna be strong embedded in Mexicans memory as the worst and histerical time of the first pandemia alert caused by the A-H1N1 influenza virus outbreak of XXI century, first called “swine flu”, that had let behind more than a hundred of sudden deaths here and take world to a never seen before health scenario.
Mexican health authorities has declared the end of the pandemia alert here, so normal activities are going on as there was in 23 april, when nobody knows about the influenza outbreak reported for first time in La Gloria, Veracruz.
When World Health Organization is ending it´s 62nd World Health Assembly, Dr. Chan move to make different evaluation of pandemia than geographical spread. Until yesterday there were 41 nations (Greece was the latest nation infected with 1 case) and maybe WHO´s reports would change it´s format of influenza spread by country and total global cases.
This already finished influenza alert was compared by its similarities with Spanish influenza pandemia in 1918, that kills like 20 million people all around the world, and with the 1957 and 1977 outbreaks lesser fatal. Dr Chan remark it´s fears about a new mutation coming in influenza virus strains.
Although this pandemia wasn´t as killer as the first reports indicates, health surveillance is going to be permanent. The figure is the curve of the influenza cases Mexican government reports up to date.
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