Health officials concerned about swine flu outbreak

[SlowwHand]

You said NO deaths. It's just now getting here, Zk. Like I said, blow it off.

[Zkribbler]

I said:

No one has died of it in the U.S. Thousands came down with it in Mexico and only 68 died.

Nite nite, Slowwy. I'm sleepy and am heading for bed.

[SlowwHand]

The Dallas County health department is getting ready to hand out a travel health alert to all bus companies in the county that travel to and from Mexico.

Ignore it. Night night.

[Docfeelgood]

The truth is not being told!

Naivety is bliss!

I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from “under control”. As a doctor, I realise that the media does not report the truth. Authorities distributed vaccines among all the medical personnel with no results, because two of my partners who worked in this hospital (interns) were killed by this new virus in less than six days even though they were vaccinated as all of us were. The official number of deaths is 20, nevertheless, the true number of victims are more than 200. I understand that we must avoid to panic, but telling the truth it might be better now to prevent and avoid more deaths.
Yeny Gregorio Dávila, Mexico City

[Docfeelgood]

Genetic analysis of the virus indicates it is highly unusual: It is a hybrid that resulted from a combination of four different viruses -- one that typically infects people, one that originated in North American birds and two from pigs in Europe and Asia.

"This combination has not been recognized before in the U.S. or elsewhere," Schuchat said.

Swine Flu map

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...81,3.99353&z=8

[EPW]

If this thing is for real it could solve a lot of humanity's problems

[SlowwHand]

Don't worry about it, Doc. Zk says we'll be ok.

[Wezil]

I don't know about "all" of us but you and I are in a favoured group.

The first death occurred in southern Oaxaca state on April 13, but Mexico didn't send the first of 14 mucous samples to the CDC until April 18, around the same time it dispatched health teams to hospitals looking for patients with severe flu or pneumonia-like symptoms.

Those teams noticed something strange: The flu was killing people aged 20 to 40. Flu victims are usually either infants or the elderly. The Spanish flu pandemic, which killed at least 40 million people worldwide in 1918-19, also first struck otherwise healthy young adults.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090426.wswineflu0426/BNStory/International/home

[SlowwHand]

I have a 28 year old daughter. I don't feel like playing the game.

[Wezil]

I'm just waiting for Janet Napolitano to claim the virus entered the US from Canada.

[EPW]

I'm starting to feel a little sick.

[Wezil]

Have you been around any swine lately?

[EPW]

My Mexican-American roommate brought home 5 pounds of ham recently. I don't know if its from Mexico though.

[SlowwHand]

I can't remember if it was in this article or not, and I'm not going to read up.
Officials are saying that contact with swine isn't required.

[Wezil]

It was my poor attempt at humour Sloww. Sorry.