QNS SCHOOL FEAR; CANCUN TRIP EYED IN SWINE OUTBREAK (who protects Americans from Mexican disease?)

NY POST ^ | 4/26/09 | ANGELA MONTEFINISE and MICHAEL BLAUSTEIN with Brandon Guarneri, Julia Dahl, Christina Carrega, Tim P

[Liz]

St. Francis Prep high school seniors....likely brought in Mexico's deadly swine flu epidemic after spring-break in Cancun leaving about 200 kids ill. City health officials confirmed eight students "have probable human swine influenza" after testing positive for the swine strain......health officials put all NY hospitals on alert after nine kids complained of nausea, dizziness, headache and other swine flu symptons, which has already killed at least 81 Mexicans and sickened more than 1,300. Some residents recently returned from Mexico have called saying they were ill.....WHO said swine flu may soon be a global pandemic that killed 50 million people worldwide after World War I. The NY Health Dept is sending samples from the school to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more testing. Officials wouldn't comment on the Mexico trip....The rapidly spreading virus caused Mexico to declare a state of emergency, and caused 11 reported cases of swine flu in the US, according to the CDC -- seven in California, two in Texas, and Kansas.

[Liz]

US swine flu cases are considered "mild"......only b/c US citizens are immunized against disease. Plus US sanitation practices are much more regulated.

Mexico's sanitary practices are non-existent......plus they do not immunize their citizens.

Mexicans are pouring over our borders bringing all kinds of deadly diseases-----including leporosy.

Is vote-hungry amnesty-obsessed Obama protecting US citizens from these diseases?

[rovenstinez]

So it sounds like it will end up with a name, MONTEZUMA’S REVENGE FLU OF MEXICO.

[Katya]

I’m confused, we are immunized against the swine flu? What effect would other immunizations have in protecting someone against the swine flu?

[Oldpuppymax]

So a group of clueless kids, propagated by equally clueless parents, take a PC trip to a third world country and wind up making disease the noteworthy keepsake of their journey. And what have they learned? It’s Bush’s fault, of course!

[angkor]

>>>>> Mexicans are pouring over our borders bringing all kinds of deadly diseases-——including leporosy. <<<<<

A year or two ago there was some discussion and a bit of reporting on the resurgence of TB cases in the U.S.A.

The raw numbers seemed to cluster around areas with large illegal alien populations.

But then the reporting seemed to stop, and (as I recall) there was some problem with the CDC numbers or the epidemiology because country-of-origin/immigration status of the victims was not recorded, or perhaps simply withheld by the CDC due to some bogus “privacy” concerns (i.e., releasing non-identified stats on TB status, sex, nationality, and immigration status are not remote “privacy” issues by any conceivable federal statute).

I don’t recall all the details, just that there was some reporting, and then it stopped.

Very similar to the extreme and very dangerous hesitance of CDC to identify Mexican jalapenos and serrano peppers as the source of last year’s salmonella outbreak.

While it was crystal clear from the very get-go that the problem centered around Hispanic food, the CDC never to my recollection was honest enough to say that most (all?) of the early victims were themselves Hispanic, e.g. Mexicans in America.

You could get all of that from reading between the lines (it was fairly obvious), but it was like reading some controlled-press Commie propaganda broadsheet where you have to divine the truth through innuendo and guessing.

[Dr. Ursus]

Don’t worry,Janet Napoltiano will save us!

[FormerACLUmember]

The timing is a perfect fit for this theory. Some kids from the school spend Easter week in Cancun April 13 to April 19.

School reopens 6 days ago at Saint Francis Prep on Monday April 20. With 100 or so kids sick, I am guessing that that the Mexican Swine Flu is highly contagious, is airborne, and has a 2-3 day incubation.

Prophyaxis is Tamiflu 75 mg per day for one week after exposure. Treatment is Prophyaxis is Tamiflu 75 mg per day twice per day, plus all supportive measures, for one week after onset.

[FormerACLUmember]

The timing is a perfect fit for this theory. Some kids from the school spend Easter week in Cancun April 13 to April 19.

School reopens 6 days ago at Saint Francis Prep on Monday April 20. With 100 or so kids sick, I am guessing that that the Mexican Swine Flu is highly contagious, is airborne, and has a 2-3 day incubation.

Prophyaxis is Tamiflu 75 mg per day for one week after exposure. Treatment is Tamiflu 75 mg per day twice per day, plus all supportive measures, for one week after onset.

[3catsanadog]

Why were they even there - weren't there warnings against going to Mexico earlier this year because of the increased violence this year?

Yeah, clueless all around.

[3catsanadog]

Don’t worry,Janet Napoltiano will save us!

Yes!! Dimwit is closing the Canadian border! Now we will all be safe!

[FormerACLUmember]

The Mexican Swine Flu can be easily prevented (and treated) by Tamiflu or Relenza. It is highly airborne infectious and has perhaps a 2 day incubation. This young lad in New York just recovered with no problems.

[Liz]

1-2 years ago there was some discussion and a bit of reporting on the resurgence of TB cases here. The raw numbers seemed to cluster around areas with large illegal alien populations. But then the reporting seemed to stop, and (as I recall) there was some problem with the CDC numbers or the epidemiology because country-of-origin/immigration status of the victims was not recorded, or perhaps simply withheld by the CDC due to some bogus “privacy” concerns (releasing non-identified stats on TB status, sex, nationality, and immigration status are not remote “privacy” issues by any conceivable federal statute). Very similar to the very dangerous hesitance of CDC to identify Mexican peppers as the source of last year’s salmonella outbreak. While it was crystal clear from the very get-go that the problem centered around Hispanic food, the CDC never to my recollection was honest enough to say that most (all?) of the early victims were themselves Hispanic, e.g. Mexicans in America........it was like reading some controlled-press Commie propaganda broadsheet where you have to divine the truth through innuendo and guessing.

N-i-c-e take---desrves a repeat.

And the answer is ....(taa-daa----drum roll please)..............political correctness.

Mexican peppers were to blame---but the CDC decimated the livelihood of a huge crop of US tomato growers before the CDC was brave enough to utter the words "Mexico did it."

Third World here we come.

[ridesthemiles]

Mexico’s sanitary practices are non-existent......plus they do not immunize their citizens.

Mexicans are pouring over our borders bringing all kinds of deadly diseases-——including leporosy. “

MEXICO-—from E-Coli on your peppers to Swine flu-
The gift that keeps on giving.....

Now tell the Minutemen that they were wrong about protecting the border....Make their day.

[ridesthemiles]

But then the reporting seemed to stop”

The reporting has stopped, but I have a friend who works in the L S school system.
TB there is still a problem.

[ridesthemiles]

But then the reporting seemed to stop”

The reporting has stopped, but I have a friend who works in the L A school system.
TB there is still a problem.

[Eva]

TB came in with the South East Asian immigrants in the eighties and late seventies.

[Ted Grant]

When did this overseas trips to places like Cancun start becoming common? Seems to me to be a fairly pricey trip. And potentially dangerous for a variety of reasons. I wouldn’t let a kid go on a weekender with their senior class to Cancun - but then again, I’m a very mean man.

[Ted Grant]

Thanks for having a cool head and some clarity on this issue. I’ve had to tangle with some folks who insist that they are smart and wise to panic. They must not know what ‘panic’ means.

[Eva]

None, there is not immunization that prevents swine flu, but they have mentioned that some flu inoculation may be of some very limited value.

I'm not sure why Americans are not getting severe cases of this flu, except that perhaps authorities were prepared and treated with tamiflu as soon as symptoms started to appear.

[Alberta's Child]

You raise legitimate points, but it's kinda hard to blame Mexican immigrants on this crap when all the evidence seems to indicate that it was brought back here from Mexico by American high school students.

For the life of me, I never understood why anyone would travel to a Third World sh!t-hole for vacation.