Patient Zero Search Explodes
By John Batchelor on May 1, 2009 at 11:45 PM in Influenza Pandemic
(bumped up from this morning)
New, fretful, confusing reports from the California border indicates that the A/H1N1 virus was in California before five year-old Edgar Hernandez fell ill on April 2 in La Gloria, Veracruz state. California epidemiologists have located two cases of children in Southern California, a ten year-old boy in San Diego County and a nine year-old glrl in neighboring Imperial County, who fell ill before Edgar Hernandez.
The boy on March 30; the girl on April 1. Both have tested positive for A/H1N1. Neither are known to have had contact with swine.
The new theory is that this killer flu has been circulating for months during flu season along the California-Mexican border. The theory continues that many may have contracted it and recovered in ignorance. Testing for infection is likely to turn up surprising new pockets. The scary strain in Mexico is not said to be distinct form the strain in California. There are many unanswered questions.
The search for Patient Zero has now exploded with overwhelmingly contradictory evidence. The slaughter of pigs in Egypt may be hysteria (above). Then again, the A/H1N1 flu can be anywhere. Do you have it. Did you already? Why is it suddenly a killer? Is this like 1918 — start stealthily and then explode?
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