Posted on 04/27/2009 11:55:13 AM PDT by Steelfish
American swine flu cases climb to 40
U.S. plans to issue travel advisory to Mexico; 2,000 there have fallen ill
April 27: Richard Besser, M.D., Acting Director for the CDC, says the swine flu outbreak in the U.S. is evolving and changing rapidly, and that the CDC will be releasing an advisory for travel to Mexico.
There are growing worries that the swine flu strain has “pandemic potential.”
Learn about the virus found in pigs and why it is causing concern among health officials.
The number of confirmed cases of swine flu around the world has climbed to 73, with 40 of them in the U.S., the World Health Organization reported Monday. WHO officials say they are "very concerned" about the disease's spread. A New York official said the city has 28 cases of swine flu at one school, with 17 additional probable cases.
President Barack Obama said Monday the threat of spreading swine flu infections was a concern but "not a cause for alarm," while customs agents began checking people coming into the United States by land and air.
The United States government will issue a new travel advisory to Mexico later today, said Dr. Richard Besser, the acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during a Monday press conference. He said travel to Mexico should be avoided out of an “abundance of caution.”
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It must really annoy the Hussein in him.
How come nobody’s dying if it’s such a public health emergency?
He said travel to Mexico should be avoided out of an “abundance of caution.”
Rocket scientists everywhere!....As if we had to wait to hear it from some dumbass in charge!
So who cares if some people are catching this variant of flu? So what???
We already have the ACLU variant of a president!
They are only dying in Mexico because their health care system is garbage..no one has died of Swine Flu here. It can be treated with Tamiflu if detected early enough, it’s just a regular flu. The Obama Administration just wants to take the focus off of his incompetence and then say how we need socialized medicine to fix this “emergency”
Nothing to see here, move along.
Hey you, ya wanna get beat up or go to jail?
Now move along.
Somewhere I think I wrote about leftist capitalizing on the misfortunes of others as a matter of survival.
That sort of makes them the human version of maggots, doesn't it?
I'm assuming you mean "dying in America". I don't believe that there's been enough people in America infected yet to be statistically relevant. Where Mexico has almost 150 deaths with perhaps several thousand infected, America has only roughly 50(ish) confirmed cases.
CDC does expect people to die as the number of infected climbs here in the states.
Has the coronor come back with results yet on that crime last week we were all busy solving — the Freddie Mac CFO gunshot/hanging “incident”?
You should join Mensa. Since nobody is dying in America, that was a pretty good guess on your part.
Hundreds of people die from the flu each and every year in the U.S.
It wasn't' a guess. It was the answer to a similar question that was directed at a CDC official this weekend.
Yes, from all sorts of flu viruses. Mostly the elderly and those with weak immune systems. Its a normal thing and it happens every year. So, who cares about a new flu bug going around if you are not elderly or immunally challenged?
Most people don’t realize that the flu shot’s effectiveness is a crap shoot every year. The CDC never knows whether they are preventing the right strain or not.
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