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Around 100 people were among the St. Francis Preparatory School Fresh Meadows, who fell ill several days, said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, health commissioner in New York.

“All cases are mild, are being treated in hospital, no children, no child is seriously ill,” said Dr. Frieden.

Health officials have reached the preliminary conclusion of the test, the nose or throat swabs for viruses, eight students, allowing them to eliminate other influenza strains. Officials of the doubt, since some of the students recently in Mexico, St. Francis, where the outbreak is believed to have begun.

President of Mexico assumed emergency powers in order to resolve the crisis, which has killed at least 81 people and infected about 1300 others. All public meetings are banned, including more than 500 concerts and sporting events and popular road cycling tour is closed.

Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, said that the events of the Mexican public health emergency of international concern “.

W.H.O. hold an emergency meeting of experts on Saturday, but the Panel, without further increase in global pandemic preparedness, said he wanted more information. Some experts expressed surprise that no action was taken in Mexico seems to start with the concept of alert Level 4 – Human to human transmission of new virus. Alert for 3 years due to small groups of human cases of bird flu.

In the United States, so far at least 11 confirmed cases of swine fever. Seven confirmed, San Diego and Imperial counties in California and Kansas, two. Texas, two 16-year-old Byron School Cibolo Steele, San Antonio, has been confirmed, swine fever, and one of his classmates suspected of having the virus. There is no death, and said that most of the 11 officers seems to be recovering.

Officials said they expect to find many examples of when they began to test them.

New York, Queens student sample was sent to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, only lab in the country, which can positively confirm a new strain of swine flu – which has been identified as H1N1. Results are expected on Sunday, officials said.

Concerned that panic may be a tax to local health authorities, Dr. Frieden called New Yorker, not to go to hospital if they are mild cold or flu symptoms. If they are sick, especially lung problems should seek immediate medical attention, he said, because antiflu drugs work best when taken within 48 hours.

As the fear of avian influenza H5N1, both in New York and the United States has a detailed contingency plans for a pandemic since 2005, and the supply of basic needs and the use of drugs (see the scheme www.pandemicflu.gov).

Dr. Frieden said that such emergencies, the city has more fans hospitals, large piles and masks, gloves, and “millions of doses of Tamiflu,” antiflu drugs, which was still working on a new pig strains.

Queens students are eight positive strains of influenza virus, but negative for all previously known. These results, which are known as “untypeable”, headed by officials suspect that the new classical swine fever.

Dr. Frieden said the city was also tested samples of kindergarten pupils Bronx. Health officials do not recognize it.

Thomas Skinner, a CDC representative, said the agency to send a team of New York, like California, Texas and Mexico, if necessary.

New York is one of the most complex health department in the world, but the CDC to help by eliminating the supply of national strategic reserves. Tamiflu, masks, gloves, cleansing gel, fans and other products useful to influenza crisis has stores across the country and can be moved in a few hours, Mr. Skinner said.

Texas, Byron Steele High School was closed and had to cancel all extracurricular activities in order to reduce the mobility of students, staff and community, “said Dr. Sandra Guerra, Regional Director for the State Health Department. He called on the students also agreed not to, because it would defeat the purpose.

Texas Governor Rick Perry has asked the CDC to send 37,430 doses of Tamiflu.

According to one expert, who participated in a phone conversation on Saturday about preparedness for influenza was discussion among the officials on how to move some stock closer to Texas and California. Presumably this is disputed evidence that a mild form of flu has spread to other parts of the country.

C.D.C. United States of America does not raise the alert, which formally is zero, because there are no cases of H5N1 avian influenza in Asia and Egypt.

C.D.C. Scientists who worked in “seed of a new strain of swine flu vaccine alliance,” but warned that it will take several months, sufficient doses of all the American people are ready.

There is also a tool to test dozens of 140 U.S. and international laboratories, so that they can experiment with new flu.

In influenza season each year, the majority of infant deaths and the elderly, but not the first in Mexico were among people aged 60 or younger than 3 years, the WHO spokesman said. When a new virus, death can occur in healthy adults with strong immune response to Mount. In its Défense – inflammation and leakage of fluid in the lung cells – may be significantly drown them inside.

Federal pandemic plan includes the creation of an ambulance and alert the first treatment that they had seasonal flu shots and put them in the first row for each primary series of vaccines against classical swine fever.

1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic, the next wave – the old was mild, a serious blow after the winter.

However, as experts note that in 1918, Tamiflu is not without antibiotics to combat pneumonia, and no power fans.

Christine Hauser contributed reporting in New York, Houston, James McKinley, and Marc Lacey from Mexico City.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: May 3, 2009
Since editing error, some editions last Sunday Article about eight cases, the human influenza swine rather distorted, and some copies of the Queens school, established in Cibolo, Texas, where the disease was confirmed in two high school students. Cibolo is a North-San Antonio, between San Antonio and Laredo is, south-west of the city.

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