Medical Malpractice

Swine flu: Does this make you feel better or just as worried?

Here's the story of the first confirmed swine flu victim... Leyva's widow said he first noticed flu symptoms on April 13, and went to the local clinic in Xonacatlan (Shoh-nah-cah-TLAN). No one was available to give him a checkup, but he was given a shot and felt well enough the next day to make the 40-mile bus trip to Mexico City, taking subways to work despite a nasty cough. Too sick to work again after that, he still had no medical care except for a penicillin injection his niece gave him. By the night of April 19, he was having trouble breathing and had an irregular heartbeat, and so his family took him to the nearby city of Toluca, where the poor can get discounted care at a large public hospital. By 8 a.m. the next day, he was dead. His family was told the cause was a heart attack brought on by pneumonia. notice key words - no one available to give him a check up... neice gave him penicilin shot (no word on if the niece was even a nurse)... where the poor can get discounted care... neighbor with loose running pigs next door. could this be why we're seeing so many deaths in Mexico compared to the other countries? Because one boy in Ohio who is recovering is said to have been diagnosed with the SAME strain as the virus killing Mexicans. some are also saying that since this is the middle of flu season in mexico, there could also be underlying health problems that were exasperated by this new flu. Knowing this... does this make you feel better should this become pandemic, about surviving, or are you still worried? I don't know why they aren't focusing on this in the media... the fact sanitation is bad in Mexico, the fact healthcare sucks there... I mean look at this guy... he didn't get checked over, his neice who wasn't referred to as a nurse, gave him penicilin even though she didn't know what he was sick with... then he had to go to a city were the poor can get discounted care. The guy was living next to a neighbor with a small pig farm... it couldn't have been sanitary... methinks that may have contributed to the swine flu deaths. But i think people are afraid to say it because it would be insulting to Mexico/Mexicans. Lol... "you think you know me" first, what you said made no sense... but let me say this... there are millions upon millions of the antiviral world wide, only a total of say 2,000 confirmed cases thus far. That leaves us millions upon millions of the antiviral. They are currently making more of the antiviral for in case there is a pandemic, and there will be a vaccination in the works for should that moment happen too.

Public Comments

1. Listen men, i don't live in USA, so of course i am worried. but still do you think that with fast prevention people can be cured of swine flu? there are not many doctor and not many vaccines?! how if there are 100 new cases, but only 50 can be cured?! get it??? god this is awful!