豬流感 - 德州

※ 引述《noncevis (一棵萊姆草)》之銘言：
: 計畫要去德州的六旗樂園打工
: 但現在因為豬流感
: 非常猶豫要不要去退費了
: 有在德州的朋友可以分享一下 大家對這件事情的反應嗎?
: 真的像新聞講的那麼嚴重嗎?
: 德州現在已經被標成二級緊戒區(僅次於墨西哥)
: 就是有少數病患集中區
: (應該是啦 印象中看新聞 切確的詞不太清楚)
: 很煩惱>"<
: 準備了這麼久的打工遊學
: 很不甘心為了這個豬流感就放水流啊...

德州確認有一名約兩歲的幼兒因H1N1新型流感死亡，是墨西哥以外
第一起因新型流感致死的案例。而在美國全境的病例已增加到64件，
以紐約州最多，加州、德州其次。

另外，新型流感疫情在歐洲也迅速擴散，確認的病例英國已增至五
件、西班牙四件、德國三件、奧地利一件。這些患者皆在最近有前
往墨西哥旅遊。

請各位海外遊子留意這波疫情~

新聞原文(摘錄)：

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8024611.stm

BBC News, 12:00 GMT, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:00 UK

US reports first swine flu death

A 23-month-old child in Texas is the first person known to
have died of swine flu outside Mexico, where it may have
killed as many as 159 people.

Officials in Washington gave no other details of the patient
- one of 64 cases of infection with the virus.

Germany and Austria have detected their first cases of the
virus and the UK and Spain have confirmed new cases.

The UN's World Health Organisation has called a meeting of
scientific experts to discuss the nature of the outbreak.

Earlier, it confirmed that the flu was being transmitted
between humans and called on countries to check their contingency
plans for a possible pandemic.

But the WHO also urged caution, saying measures like travel
bans were unlikely to prove effective.

France will ask the European Union on Thursday to suspend all
flights going to Mexico because of the flu outbreak, Health
Minister Roselyne Bachelot said.

She said the request would be made at a meeting of the 27 EU
health ministers, due to be held in Luxembourg.

Visits to Mexico

The death in Texas, which borders Mexico, was confirmed by
Dr Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.

"Unfortunately this morning I do have to confirm that we have
the first death of a child from H1N1 flu virus," he told US
TV channel CBS.

"And this is in Texas, a 23-month-old child."

No details were given of how the child may have contracted the
virus or of the child's nationality.

Germany's Robert Koch Institute, responsible for disease control
and prevention, reported three cases: a 22-year-old woman in Hamburg,
and a 37-year-old woman and a man in his late 30s in separate
hospitals in Bavaria.

All three recently returned from Mexico, officials said.

Austria confirmed that a 28-year-old woman who had returned from
a trip to Mexico had contracted the virus but was "on the way to
recovery".

In the UK, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced three new cases,
on top of two previously reported in Scotland: a girl of 12 in the
south-west English town of Paignton, and a case each in London and
Birmingham.

He told parliament all three were receiving antiviral drugs and
were responding well to treatment.

"All of them have travelled recently from Mexico," he added. "All
of them have mild symptoms."

In Spain, the number of confirmed cases doubled to four on Wednesday.
Again, all four had visited Mexico.


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