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...interview with TIME, Dr. Miguel Angel Lezana, director of Mexico's National Epidemiological Center, rejects the criticism. "When you're dealing with a completely new germ, it tasks any health system's early-response capacity," says Lezana. "But it's difficult for me to imagine how a country could have acted more rapidly than Mexico did in this case...
...Friday through Tuesday, the nation's long Cinco de Mayo holiday weekend. On Thursday, for example, the government reported that the daily number of new suspected cases is now about a fifth of what it was less than a week ago. That "makes us optimistic," said Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova. "We had expected geometric or even exponential growth. So we think we're on the right track." (See photos of the swine flu hitting Mexico...
...Hernandez's story, and hundreds of others like her family's, indicate that the first-response apparatus of Mexico's public health system, if not the entire system, could stand a significant upgrade. Dr. Miguel Angel Lezana, director of the National Epidemiological Center, tried a bit of buck-passing this week, suggesting the response by the U.N.'s World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, "should have been more immediate" after Mexico informed WHO officials on April 16 of a possibly uncommon flu virus, one whose symptoms also include splitting headaches as well as the pneumonia-related problems. What Lezana seems...
...think your advocacy has helped change the public view of stem-cell research? Angel Paternina CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA...
News of the flu had been lingering for several days but surged to national attention late Thursday after a televised announcement from Federal Health Minister José Angel Córdova. "With the information obtained this afternoon, we have before us the threat of a new type of influenza," Cordova said, announcing the first total school closures over the urban area of 20 million since the 1985 earthquake. Mexican authorities said there had been 20 deaths confirmed from the virus in recent weeks, mostly healthy adult men and women, who were in groups not normally considered vulnerable. Then panic increased to fever...