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Published online 2 September 2009 |
Nature
461,
20-21
(2009)
| doi:10.1038/461020a
Updated online: 1 October 2009
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Pandemic flu: from the front lines
Researchers describe the scientific and public-health challenges they face in battling the H1N1 virus.
Mexico | Australia | Japan | Argentina | Vietnam | United States | India | Sub-Saharan Africa
Mexico — Population 110 million
Data suggest that Mexico has seen two waves of infection — the first, which peaked in late April, affected the Mexico City area, and the second, broader wave spanned June through August in southern states, including Chiapas, Yucatan and Quintana Roo. To prepare for a potentially larger wave this winter, Mexico is raising public awareness, standardizing timely diagnosis and treatment and reinforcing equipment and management protocols in intensive-care units throughout the country.
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As opposed to European countries and America where the virus was affecting mostly elderly people and somewhat biased to one Sex, the H1N1 is affecting mostly young people in India unbiasedly. So while importing vaccines developed by other countries one need to think for a moment where that will act in the indigenous situation. It may be that as more and more countries are getting affected by the virus it may be becoming more mutagenic.