Certainly covering up outbreaks, even epidemics is not new. WHO is barely even reporting this and the infections - now in Bolivia as well may number into the millions.
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Swine-Flu-Outbreak-Bolivia-Launches-Anti-H1N1-Campaign--20160627-0003.html - http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Swine-Flu-Outbreak-Bolivia-Launches-Anti-H1N1-Campaign--20160627-0003.html
To date, 18 people gave died from H1N1 in Bolivia and more than one
million cases of acute respiratory infections have been recorded.
If these are H1N1 - there is a serious epidemic not only going on in Brazil - which has not reported much in almost a month - but maybe much of Latin America as well.
Vaccination campaigns are also being pursued elsewhere in Latin America.
RELATED:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Mexican-Authorities-Report-524-Deaths-Due-to-Influenza-20160417-0011.html - Mexican Authorities Report 524 Deaths Due to Influenza
According to local media reports, the Ecuadorean Ministry of Health (MSP) has confirmed a total of http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Ecuador-Death-Toll-from-Swine-Flu-Rises-to-60--20160604-0019.html - 527 cases of the virus .
A vaccination campaign to combat deadly flu viruses, including H1N1,
was launched in early June, with the health ministry acquiring 300,000
doses to be distributed at medical centers throughout the country. At
least 60 people have died from swine flu so far this year.
In Brazil, 2016
has been the worst year since the 2009 pandemic of the virus, where
1,003 have already died from H1N1, with 122 deaths reported in just the
past week.
Isn't it amazing when this is not happening in the U.S. or Russia but in poorer third world countries it is hardly reported.
The worst part of this is this is becoming more lethal and could have mutated - and we know for sure it does mutate. Has anyone run sequences on this strain that is killing record numbers of people in Brazil?
Not going to let this one go. Su casa es mi casa - what happens down there - especially in Mexico where it is being spread - could soon happen here. It will come to America and Europe in the new improved form and now is the time we should be preparing. Not when it has arrived and our clinics and ERs are swamped.
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