After receiving reports that a Mexican national who was infected with influenza H1N1 traveled through Shanghai en route to Hong Kong this week, Chinese officials decided to quarantine 43 Mexican citizens who were either visiting or living in China in an effort to prevent any possibility of disease spread. The incident has caused a row in among the international community, especially in Mexico, because none of those quarantined apparently tested positive for the H1N1 virus. China is assuring the public that the Mexican nationals are treated well. According to the Beijing municipal health bureau, they were given the best rooms in the hotels they were held in, and sent fruit and flowers daily. The Mexican govenment has sent a chartered plane to China to bring its citizens home. Read more and share your comment here.
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Dr. Steven Chang, the author of DailyDose, is a staff physician with Kosmix RightHealth. Dr. Chang practices Family Medicine at the University of California Davis Medical Center, where his medical interests include both pediatric and geriatric care, public health, gay and lesbian health, and sleep medicine. Dr. Chang trained at the Stanford University affiliated O'Connor Hospital, and was a research fellow at the National Institute of Health. He holds an M.D. from McGill University and a BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I feel no one should be aloud in or out of US until the flu epidemic is over.
May 7th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
I think they are going a little over board with this flu thing.I mean why should they quarantine someone if theyare not sick?But you can not keep the mexicans out they cross the boarder illegal all the time.Broader control just can not stop them.What are you suppose to do shoot them om sight?First they bring drugs over here and now they are bringing the swine flu.what can we do?NOTHING.