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| Mexican soldiers delivering masks for public distribution |
Countries planned quarantines, tightened rules on pork imports and tested airline passengers for fevers as global health officials tried Sunday to come up with uniform ways to battle a deadly strain of swine flu. Nations from New Zealand to France reported new suspected cases.
World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan held teleconferences with staff and flu experts around the world but stopped short of recommending specific measures to stop the disease, urging governments to step up their surveillance of suspicious outbreaks.
Governments including China, Russia and Taiwan began planning to put anyone with symptoms of the deadly virus under quarantine…
Some nations issued travel warnings for Mexico.
Chan called the outbreak a public health emergency of ”pandemic potential” because the virus can pass from human to human. Her agency was considering whether to issue nonbinding recommendations on travel and trade restrictions, and even border closures. It is up to governments to decide whether to follow the advice…
New Zealand said that 10 students who took a school trip to Mexico ”likely” had swine flu. Israel said a man who had recently visited Mexico had been hospitalized while authorities try to determine whether he had the disease. French Health Ministry officials said four possible cases of swine flu are currently under investigation, including a family of three in the northern Nord region and a woman in the Paris region. The four recently returned from Mexico. Tests on two separate cases of suspected swine flu proved negative, they said…
Mexico closed schools, museums, libraries and theaters in a bid to contain the outbreak after hundreds were sickened there. In the U.S., there have been at least 11 confirmed cases of swine flu in California, Texas and Kansas. Patients have ranged in age from 9 to over 50. At least two were hospitalized. All recovered or are recovering.
The WHO’s pandemic alert level is currently at to phase 3. I’m betting on phase 4 within the week. Phase 5 is what we get when the virus is confirmed in at least two countries in the same region.
Phase 6 would indicate a full-scale global pandemic. Which no one wants to see or experience.
http://tinyurl.com/cef9qv
Map of current cases..
Im wondering how it Jumped the Pacific, but if you broaden the view, Europe has already been hit..
# 3 harold said, in part:
“This is a hybrid virus which points to something man-made.”
Totally unnecessary — the influenza virus does this all on its own all the time.
# 21 ECA
Your tinyurl forward is broken.
Not only is the one guy wearing his mask incorrectly (I see this all the time on the shows my wife likes to watch on the Food Network where we see how various processed foods are made), but each of them is only wearing one glove. Shades of Michael Jackson?
This is a little scary, though. We both just got over our last bout with the flu. I’m not ready for another one. Excuse me, I think I’ll go stock up on some groceries…
soundwash said, “wasnt swine flu called legionnaire’s disease or vice versa”
No. Flu is caused by a virus. Legionnaire’s by bacteria. It does have a lot of flu-like symptoms but it ain’t the flu.
Panic sells.
Janet Napolitano of Homeland Security has this under control…she will add those who want the Border’s secured…to the list of right wing extremists…
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=32.639375,-110.390625&spn=17.82349,20.478516&z=5
Border closures! Well, that would work in a country that gives a shit about it’s borders. Not here. Good going, Washington!
#25 – Alfred1
Your great leader, Herr G. W. Bush, had eight years to secure the borders… did he? Nope, he pissed the money on an uncalled for invasion of Iraq.
12 monkeys comes to mind, Flu masks that don’t protect, giving the people something to believe in, and something to fear, a man made pandemic released into the media and the jaws of darkness are upon us all.
What do we make in those weapons labs at Fort Dietrich and other locations, a little anthrax here, some flu there, perhaps they help the mutations along, raise the resistance and preserve the genome so that future generations might suffer as well.
Crazy old world, can’t tell the good guys from the bad without a program. The good guys torture and so do the bad, the good guys lie and so do the bad, the good guys make supergerms and so do the bad. You know those masks don’t even work that well with bacteria, they definitely don’t stop viral infections.
We fight the unthinkable with ineptitude and props, and death lies always waiting, the most patient of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. I think its death, it might be Dick Cheney, I always get them mixed up.
#28 OH YAAAAH? Clinton had eight years too…and Bush had four and…..Reagan….
We can go on and on about the open borders blame game. I’ll let you in on a little “secret”:
Neither party benefits from a closed border. It’s cheap labor for one group; useful idiots for the other.
#30 Actually, abortion+low birthrate may explain why neither party closes the border…the flood of baby boomer retirees…no replacements, could render the USA militarily weak…
And destroy our economy.
It may be our leaders, aware of that, see immigration as the solution…
Ending abortion and increasing USA births would also work…and is preferable in my opinion.
This whole thing is waaaay overblown, again the media is just playing with people’s minds.
There are probably 10′s or 100′s of thousands of cases of this flu in Mexico, yet they are uncounted because you don’t go to the doctor in Mexico unless you are really really sick. You can walk up to a pharmacy and self medicate, or you just put up with it until you get better. The people that have been counted are probably the very sick or those that actually visit a doctor for something like this.
In the United States, you get a splinter in your finger and you run off to the hospital to get a CAT scan.
So the virus overall seems to be rather benign, with a low mortality rate. Precautions against exposure should be taken, but not the build up to panic that we are seeing in the US media.
As for the utter and despicable racism being seen in this forum in just about every thread, I am surprised and disappointed to see that someone that is supposed to be respectable like John Dvorak or his forum managers allow it.
So far, more people dies from contaminated Peanut Butter. And that was treated as seriously as this is winding up to. The victims in Mexico could have died from just about anything. And it would have gotten labeled as this new strain of “Swine Flu”, just to serve some economic purpose. Like selling a whole new batch of the anti-virus, to the US military. Which was the only major customer of the last batch, which did absolutely squat, in stopping anything. But did make many who had no choice in receiving the doses, pretty sick (which was totally ignored!!!!). I know this for a fact, as I was forced to get dosed. And had a night of hell, from the side effects. For which I received to comfort or treatment. Accept for being allowed to shiver all night, in a corner of the shop I usually worked in. Apparently, the side effects were known, expected, but not acknowledged. After the experience of being treated like a Guinea Pig for the Air Force, I left the service at the end of my term. Only after dosing as many service members as possible. Did the vaccine’s maker dare to offer its Swine Flu “preventive” to the general public. And soon pulled it off the market, when 8 elderly people had the same symptoms that I had suffered thru.
I highly suspect this latest “flu” cycle, as being a means to make up for losing money on the last flu strain, which didn’t amount to much. And few had the money to waste on. I’m sure the McNaughton Labs, will make up its losses, via a military contract.
Im looking at the map, and I dont see much of a pattern..
The pattern should hit NEAR a major metro AIR/sea port. IF it was human transferred, there should be out breaks in Specific High transport areas..OR at locations of Pig/bird/human interaction..
red Flags are NOT diagnosed..only suspicious death..
but the BLUE, if you read the list on the left, has hit alot of those on the eastern seaboard near NEW YORK, and MOST cases have been from trips to Mexico or Mexicans BRINGING it with them..
#28 To be fair, Demagogues in congress didn’t help a blip either.
#29 Not only mask are just a make-believe feel-better solution. This picture is the living statement as to why latin america is so far behind in everything.
Bozos doing what their superiors told them in such ineficient ways that it’s better if they were doing nothing at all. Not even if their lives depend of it would they do something right.
If anything, what the guys in the pic are doing is another opportunity for a “mordida” (brive, for the lucky few spanish impaired). That’s what they do best, fcuk each other.
The fact that the US is becoming another third world country saddens me.
#30 Great answer. Too bad it’ll fall in deaf ears.
#32 Well, the panic in the US media, or Europe for that matter, is nothing compared to that in Mexico. You gotta see the panic levels there. Schools are closed, soccer games have been cancelled, movie theatres are closing down for the duration, etc. But since you’re an uninformed true believer PC lefty, keep yapping the racist card.
#34 Same thing in other parts of the world. People traveling from Mexico are the ones with symptoms
Suggesting wearing masks won’t help is just plain wrong.
Viruses and bacteria don’t leave or enter the body by themselves. They travel on the droplets of moisture expelled from coughs and sneezes. While a mask won’t stop anything the size of a virus, it will stop a droplet of moisture.
#36 Sure. The guy on the pic is a perfect example of a working mask.
Europe is taking this flu much more seriously than Janet Napolitano of Homeland Security fame…
So I must which health warnings to believe, that of Europe…or Janet’s…
What a tough one.
The Democrats can’t stop the sick illegal aliens from Mexico without injuring their pride. So they have to pretend this is a non-event. It’s not. There’s no vaccine for this new flu — too new.
Fortunately, I know two Christians who have the gift of healing colds & flus. I’m keeping good track of them!
First thing I thought, Biological warfare on the Mexican Drug Cartels.
Not the first time, but heck what a way to clean up shop down there.