Posted on 04/29/2009 5:14:08 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
State health officials say the boy was traveling with family to visit relatives. He traveled from Mexico City ity to Matamoros, and arrived in Brownsville April 4. After developing flu-like symptoms, he was hospitalized on April 13 and transferred the next day to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.
The boy came to Brownsville's Valley Baptist Medical Center at 1:30am on April 13. He was feverish and having some breathing troubles. Doctors there diagnosed him with pneumonia.
The next day, doctors sent him to Texans Children's Hospital in Houston by helicopter. But we learned Wednesday that would be his second trip in a week. "There is a three-and-a-half day gap no one is accounting for," said Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos.
Cascos is a friend of the victim's family. He pressed the family for more details on their travel and they told him the boy crossed the border into Brownsville with his family the evening of April 3. On April 5, we're told the extended family drove to Houston. They were in Houston on April 6 and 7 and drove back to Brownsville on April 8.
The boy showed the first signs of illness on that drive to Brownsville and was hospitalized five days later. "We need to look at the possibility that he may have contracted this somewhere either en route to Houston or in Houston somewhere," said Cascos. "We don't think it was in Brownsville."
Cascos says he got his information from the boy's aunt who was on the trip to Houston with the family. Regardless of where he got it, all of this confusion points to just how difficult it is to pinpoint both the cause and any kind of containment effort.
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This is not a good time for these people to be coy
Worse than that, it means he didn’t contract it in Mexico.
swine flu ping
Most of those in Mexico are dying of Pneumonia which is what happens after the Influenza wrecks their lungs. From http://www.singtomeohmuse.com/viewtopic.php?t=3232&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=705
Google map to track Flu Hot Spots
He did. A customer of a friend just got it 5 days after leaving Cancun he was very ill for 5 days after the 5 day incubation before he started to get better.
Did he take anything for it or go to the hospital or did he recover as we all usually do when we get the flu. Bedrest, etc.
True. Just like with the ‘regular’ flu, deaths come not from the initial infection but complications of the disease.
The usual home treatments.
Just so that folks understand what a Texas county Commissioners court judge has responsibility for:
“The Texas Constitution vests broad judicial and administrative powers in the position of County Judge, who presides over a five-member Commissioners Court, which has budgetary and administrative authority over County government operations.
The County Judge handles such widely varying matters as hearings for beer and wine license applications, hearing on admittance to state hospitals for the mentally ill and mentally retarded, juvenile work permits and temporary guardianships for special purposes. The Judge is also responsible for receiving and canvassing the election returns. The County Judge may perform marriages.
A County Judge in Texas may have judicial responsibility for certain criminal, civil and probate matters – responsibility for these functions vary from County to County. In those Counties in which the Judge has judicial responsibilities, the Judge has appellate jurisdiction over matters arising from the justice courts. The County Judge is also head of civil defense and disaster relief, county welfare and in counties under 225,000 population, the Judge prepares the County budget along with the County Auditor or County Clerk.”
Civil defense and disaster relief issues are coordinated with the Governors office, this is why Texas had the declaration of disaster-emergency today.
http://www.co.cameron.tx.us/judge/duties.html
I read somewhere that incubation might be as long as 7-10 days.
The longer it is the more it spreads. We avoid the people sneezing but everyone else could be spreading it too.
And the harder it is to pinpoint where you caught it. Who knows what those dot maps will look like in another week or so.
bttt
Ping (Thanks, DvdMom!)
And your post is relevant on this planet how?
Ya know, one can be a carrier and not show symptoms. The article doesn’t mention if they tested papá and mamá.
Why do you say “he didn’t contract it in Mexico”? Do we know the incubation period for this stuff?
>>> The article doesn’t mention if they tested papá and mamá.
The hospital doctor said in a TV interview mid-afternoon they’ve checked the family and they’re not showing symptoms at this time, IOW, they’re “fine.”
Please excuse me for saying that I think the doctor is full of sh!t, but there you are...
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