2009 swine flu pandemic in North America
[6] The widespread effect of H1N1 in Canada was a serious concern for the XXI Olympic Winter Games, which took place in Vancouver in February 2010.
[10] "'As many as 23,000 Mexicans were likely infected with the swine flu virus,' Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London and colleagues reported in the journal Science.
"[11] Soldiers mobilized by the government have handed out six million surgical masks to citizens in and around Mexico City.
[13] Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico City's mayor, has also asked all night-life operators to shut down their places of business for ten days to prevent further infections.
[14] José Ángel Córdova, federal Secretary of Health, said on April 24 that schools will probably be suspended for at least the following week then, and that it will take around ten days to see the evolution of the virus' behavior, and to consider other measures after such.
[15] On April 25, President Felipe Calderón declared an emergency which granted him the power to suspend public events and order quarantines.
The National History and Anthropology Institute also closed all its archaeological sites and museums, including the most famous Mayan and Aztec ruins, until further notice.
[23] According to The New York Times, "the emergency declaration frees resources to be used toward diagnosing or preventing additional cases and releases money for more antiviral drugs," including the transfer of approximately 12 million influenza medications from a federal stockpile to states.
On April 28, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had officially confirmed through tests that a 23-month-old child was infected with the flu.
When the sickness continued to worsen the next day, he was transferred to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, where he died.
[25][26][27] On May 5, Judy Trunnell, a woman in her 30s suffering from "chronic underlying health conditions" died of swine flu in Cameron County, near the US-Mexico border.
[28] The woman, a special education teacher, had recently given birth to an eight-month-term healthy baby, delivered by caesarian section.
[30] On May 17, 55-year-old Mitchell Wiener, an assistant principal at Intermediate School 238 in Hollis, Queens died from H1N1, making it the first H1N1 related fatality in the state of New York.
[37] The Minister Of Health, Donville Inniss has confirmed that two samples have been sent off to the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC) in Trinidad and Tobago to be tested for the virus.
The Minister of Health informed he had diabetes and also was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
[49] From all deceased patients, 48.5% occurred among San José residents, and only the Guanacaste Province has not had any deaths related to the virus.
[49] Cuba's Health Ministry is adopting precautionary measures to prevent the illness from coming into the country.
[56] Guatemala is checking all travelers arriving from Mexico for signs of flu and stopping anyone with symptoms of the virus at border crossings.
Schools with positive cases are being disinfected and thermographic cameras have been deployed at Tocumen International Airport to identify sickness in arriving passengers.
At the moment, people who travelled on the same aircraft as the infected woman are being asked to contact the relevant health authorities.
