Posted on 07/04/2009 3:32:05 AM PDT by Man50D
The UN's top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable.
World Health Organization head Margaret Chan added that the holding of the meeting in Cancun showed confidence in Mexico, which has been hard hit.
The WHO says most H1N1 cases are mild, with many people recovering unaided.
As the summit opened, the UK alone was projecting more than 100,000 new cases of H1N1 a day by the end of the summer.
As the peak of the flu season approaches in South America, some areas have declared a public health emergency.
El Salvador reported its first death from swine flu, a day after Paraguay reported its first fatality.
'Mild symptoms'
"As we see today, with well over 100 countries reporting cases, once a fully fit pandemic virus emerges, its further international spread is unstoppable," Dr Chan said in her opening remarks.
She stressed that the overwhelming majority of patients experienced mild symptoms and made a full recovery within a week, often in the absence of any form of medical treatment.
The exceptions, she said, were pregnant women and people with underlying health problems, who were at higher risk from complications from the virus and should be monitored if they fell ill.
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Yes. But hey...they don’t want a “crisis” to go to waste!
I am beginning to become suspicious about the vaccine for this supposed “pandemic”. This whole scenario seems contrived.
I thought WHO was on FIRST!
Leaving those borders open and ignoring this whole thing
has apparently paid off.
Literally and figuratively.
Swine flu = Biowarfare?
“Swine flu = Biowarfare?”
My sense is that this is just another strain of flu. If it’s biowarfare, then its coming-up short (at least for now).
By any logical standard, the influenza virus that comes and goes year after year should have recieved more hype as it normally kills more people by an order of magnitude (avg 36,000 people per year for infuenza, not sure if we’ve broken 100 yet here in the US).
biowarfare test?
to determine if US would leave borders open (yes)
and if the US would do nothing (yes)
and if the US would just ignore ongoing threats (yes)
Yes, I haven’t seen a big surge in cases for it.
In Argentina, they are closing malls and other public gathering places and there have been reports of numerous deaths due to the “gripe porcina.” Is it a game being played by the Kirschner government to distract the public from its plundering? Maybe but the Argentines seem genuinely scared, and it is winter flu season there.
Ping...
H1N1 flu ping to you.
Have a great Independence Day.
WRONG!!! WHO “HOPES” swine flu is unstoppable, it’s all about fear and control, don’t fall for thier crap!!
I just flew through Buenos Aires on my way to Montevideo several weeks ago. I had to fill out and sign a form documenting my medical history, have it looked at by a doctor going through transit, be scanned by a thermal device etc. Interestingly on my way back through BA (to Miami) there was the form, but nothing else, but travelers from the US were still going through the “whole nine yards”.
Sure, Kirschner is playing politics (do dogs have fleas?) But this virus seems for now to just be “flying along below the radar”, and we don’t see a lot about it in other countries on the news (surprise... there is of course, Michael Jackson).
There are several thousand cases now in Chile, for example. I would not be too cavalier about dismissing all this as some sort of nefarious plot by unknown government or other dark conspirators, as you obviously are not. Yes, seeing though all the “KandK” nonsense, the Argentines do seem to be worried.
And as you point out, it is flu season there.
People need to remember that the 1918 flu started out in the first wave as a relatively benign infection. It was the second and third waves that were he real killers.
I have also noticed that the number of cases (some now fatal) here in Florida has been slowly building. We are not yet in our flu season, of course.
Boy these leftist scum sure want this one bad don’t they?
I’m in Tampa and I’m very concerned what will happen here in the fall, with all the travel back and forth to Latin America. Miami should give us the first clue.
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