Monday, April 27, 2009

Swine Flu III: Mexico Timeline

Via Effect Measure by way of The Pump Handle: the blog Biosurveillance reports on Veratect's extensive timeline of swine flu in Mexico, starting with an incident in Canada on March 30th.

At Veratect, we operate two operations centers based in the United States (one in the Washington, DC area and one in Seattle, WA) that provide animal and human infectious disease event detection and tracking globally. Both operations centers are organizationally modeled after our National Weather Service using a distinct methodology inspired by the natural disaster and meteorology communities. Our analysts handle information in the native vernacular language and have been thoroughly trained in their discipline, which include cultural-specific interpretation of the information.
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March 30
Veratect reported that a 47-year-old city attorney for Cornwall was hospitalized in a coma at Ottawa General Hospital following a recent trip to Mexico. Family members reported the individual voluntarily reported to the hospital after gradually feeling ill upon returning from his trip on 22 March.


Of special note are the pig farming connection on April 6th, the Semana Santa [Holy Week] connection under the heading "Large mass gatherings", and Veratect's new Twitter feed.

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