Posted on 04/24/2009 2:25:14 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico shut down schools, museums, libraries and state-run theaters across its overcrowded capital Friday in hopes of containing a swine flu outbreak that authorities say killed at least 20 people—and perhaps dozens more. World health authorities worried openly that the strange new virus could become a global epidemic.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said tests show some of the Mexico victims died from the same new strain of swine flu that sickened eight people in Texas and California.
Mexico put the confirmed toll at 20 dead, but 40 other fatalities were being probed, and at least 943 nationwide were sick from the suspected flu, the health department said.
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I’m sure quite a few will be fleeing to south Texas.
Normally I shrug these things off, but I’m officially starting to get a little worried about this one.
By the millions if there is a flu panic.
Wait, didn’t I read this morning that there is a mysterious swine flu outbreak in CA and TX? Hmmmm....
Why?
Bienvenidos!...NOT
I heard about that this morning. In California, all the cases so far have been in San Diego and Imperial Counties, both of which are along the border.
Now...what a mystery! We will never be able to figure it out!
There is an air of controlled official “concern” about this one- mortality rate above 10%
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_24/en/index.html
Plus the very “strange” nature and abrupt emergence of this combined human pig and bird flu in Mexico, just across our border
Did Joe Biden get a briefing on this “manufactured crisis”...
I bet Obama will welcome them.
Fleeing from South Texas too..
bump....
I probably ought to stock up on non-perishable food. I’ve had flu vaccinations for the last several years that might give me some partial protection.
Per ABC radio news: eight confirmed cases in the US. Four of those in San Diego area. No fatalities so far.
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Jimmy Carter got Montezuma’s revenge in Mexico and metioned it in a speech. Maybe he should go back there for old time’s sake?
You don’t live here ( in Texas a few miles from the border) you don’t understand!
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