Category: News Author : Duncan Riley Posted: April 25, 2009
Tags : swine flu, swine flu outbreak, swine flu pandemic, who, world health organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) has put the world on alert and is urging countries globally to boost up their surveillance of flu-like symptoms and pneumonia. The swine flu has pandemic potential because so little is known about the disease or it’s prevention and it is spreading rapidly.
From Geneva on Saturday, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said:
“It has pandemic potential because it is infecting people. However, we cannot say on the basis of currently available laboratory, epidemiological and clinical evidence whether or not it will indeed cause a pandemic.”
New possible outbreaks are being investigated in Kansas (2 cases confirmed) in the U.S. and the situation in Mexico is worsening to the point where the Mexican government has empowered the health department to isolate patients and actively inspect homes of those afflicted with the disease.
New York – The immediate relatives of students at the Queens School possibly affected by the swine flu have also reported flu-like symptoms.
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Apr 29, 2009
if you have any idea how scay it is 4 a 12 year old girl to hear about things like this i meen aot of people dont sometimes. its hard to no wats going on becuz sum web sites say different thing and the news talks about it maybe just a little too much i meen all they ever talk about 24/7 is swine flu this and swine flu that its good to be aware but maybe talking about it to much just scares people even more than they should be. as of rightn now people have gotten it then recovered from it but people have died so then thats just like the regular flu right? i meen one little 2 year old gurl dies of it in the united states and all of a sudden every one triopps wel did anyone ever think about how many people die from regular flu every day? its the exeacnt same thing except as of right now theres no cure for it but im shure there will b soon.i meen as of right now u have a better chance of crossing the street and dieing then from this flu all im saying is its scaring alot of people and maybe the news shoodnt talk about it so much meen yea let the people no about it but talking about it to much gets people to worry too much i bet you in about maybe 1 thru 2 years people will look bak on the swinme flu and say remener wen it was so big and now no 1 even trips about it? thats probly exactly wat will happen just liek it did with the bird flu and all those kinds of virases things will get better and there will b a cure hopefully