When WHO goes Level 5 sometime this week, Homeland Defense
will be there to plunge something like THIS into your arm.
Coming to a neighborhood near you...
Prayers up!
What these assholes dont say (I heard on Glenn Beck this morn) That this was a Mexican citizen that came here for medical treatment. He couldn’t answer if the people were illegally here.
SHUT THE BORDER DOWN.
STOP the drugs, violence, resource-robbing illegals, and now - SERIOUS health hazards from entering the country and doing permanent harm to America and Americans.
Obviously this is on a LOT OF peoples MINDS!!
Remember that Brownsville and the entire southern tip of Texas are home to many winter Texans/snowbirds. Since the senior population are very likely to be some of the most at risk, *and* they tend to live in RV parks where they socialize a lot, this could become a big problem in those parts.
Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO
April 29, 2009 - 4:34PM
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A member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed claims that more than 150 people have died from swine flu, saying it has officially recorded only seven deaths around the world.
Mexico has lowered its confirmed death toll from swine flu from 20 to seven, Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova told reporters. He also raised the toll of “probable’’ deaths from the H1N1 virus from 152 to 159. A total of 1311 people remain in hospital after exhibiting symptoms of the flu, he said.
Vivienne Allan, from WHO’s patient safety program, said the body had confirmed that worldwide there had been just seven deaths - all in Mexico - and 79 confirmed cases of the disease.
“Unfortunately that [150-plus deaths] is incorrect information and it does happen, but that’s not information that’s come from the World Health Organisation,” Ms Allan told ABC Radio today.
“That figure is not a figure that’s come from the World Health Organisation and, I repeat, the death toll is seven and they are all from Mexico.”
Ms Allan said WHO had confirmed 40 cases of swine flu in the Americas, 26 in Mexico, six in Canada, two in Spain, two in Britain and three in New Zealand.
Ms Allan said it was difficult to measure how fast the virus was spreading.
She said a real concern would be if the flu virus manifested in a country where a person had had no contact with Mexico, and authorities were watching all countries for signs of that.
“There is no pattern that has emerged at this stage to be able to say that it is spreading in a particular way or it is spreading into a particular country ... the situation is continuing to evolve,” she said.
She said the WHO was not recommending against overseas travel, but urged those who felt sick to stay home and others to ensure they kept their hands clean.
No decision had yet been made about vaccinations.
“This virus is not airborne, it’s caused by droplets ... so it’s not a time for worry. It’s a time to be prepared,” Ms Allan said.
Crude oil price drops
Oil prices dipped in Asia today as concern that a swine flu outbreak could undermine crude demand overrode optimism about an eventual recovery from a global slump.
Benchmark crude for June delivery was down 39 cents to $49.53 a barrel by midday in Singapore, in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract Tuesday fell 22 cents to settle at $49.92.
AAP
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Pinging my General Interest and TEXAS Lists here!
PING! PING! PING!
Cause Number of Deaths Per Day
Major Cardiovascular Disease 2527
Malignancies 1517
Motor Vehicle Accidents 120
All Other Accidents 158
Respiratory Diseases 338
Influenza, Pneumonia
& Tuberculosis 172
Septicemia 88
HIV Disease 39
Diabetes mellitus 196
Liver Diseases 74
Kidney Diseases 110
Parkinson’s Disease 45
Alzheimer’s Disease 148
All Other Diseases 565
Assault (homicide) 56
Suicide 84
Surgery/Medical Care 8
Firearm Injury 79
Alcohol-induced Death 53
Other Drug-induced Death 52
Injury at Work 15
A more accurate headline would be “Another Mexican death from Swine Flu, but this time in Texas”
It may have already been noted, but I heard on the radio this morning the kid was from Mexico.
It is 293 miles from Brownsville to Houston - why did they go all that distance to treat a sick child? There are hospitals in Brownsville and McAllen.
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ health officials say a Mexican toddler who is the first confirmed U.S. death from swine flu arrived in Texas from Mexico on April 4 and developed flu symptoms four days later.
The Texas Department of State Health Services said Wednesday the Mexico City boy had underlying health problems when he traveled to Brownsville Texas to visit relatives. He was admitted to a Houston hospital a few days after developing a fever and other flu symptoms and died on Monday night.
HOUSTON (AP) — Health officials said Wednesday that a nearly 2-year-old Mexican boy is the first confirmed U.S. death from swine flu.
The child had traveled with family from Mexico City to Matamoros, Mexico and then to neighboring Brownsville, Texas, said Houston Health and Human Services Spokeswoman Kathy Barton. The boy became ill and was taken to a Houston hospital. He died Monday night, she said.
Geez! The hype on this non-existent "pandemic" continues. Now WHO says only 9 people dead, not 154. Yet the media keeps hyping this. A month from now this entire story will have disappeared.
I’m really about fed up with the way the press is sensationalizing this crap.
First of all, this kid was SICK IN MEXICO! He came to the U.S. for treatment and died. That does not make it the first U.S. death. They are just spinning it.
Second, There’s somewhere around 60,000 death per year in the U.S. from the flu. That’s over 150 per day and not a single damn headline about that, but we are going to jump all over this foreign national who came to our country to die.
It’s a bunch of BS if you ask me.
They are lying.
Ask them, what is more likely to cause this thing to spread more...500 infected people already here, or 20,000 potential carriers, entering every single day from Mexico?
Ask them, would American rather try to manage 500 sick and ill, or 20,000 potentially sick and ill crossing in every single day from Mexico?
It’s like America’s first case of Mad Cow Disease, it comes from a foreign sourced victim that was already infected.
Quarantine. Now.
When WHO goes Level 5 sometime this week, Homeland Defense
will be there to plunge something like THIS into your arm.
Coming to a neighborhood near you...
It’s a Mexican child. No less a tragedy, but it’s a Mexican’s death on USA soil - it’s more accurately part of the Mexican death toll.
I heard he was an illegal alien, just brought over from Mexico, though. So does that really count as a US death???