Posted on 04/26/2009 10:25:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Napolitano declares public health emergency @ 1:01 pm by Eric Zimmermann
The United States will declare the swine flu outbreak a public health emergency, Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano said today.
Speaking at a White House press briefing, Napolitano said the declaration is not as severe it sounds.
"It allows us to free up state and local resources" that otherwise would not be available, Napolitano said.
The declaration does not necessarily convey the authority to initiate quarantines.
"We're nowhere near that kind of decision," Napolitano said.
Also at the briefing, the Director of the Center for Disease Control, Richard Besser, warned that there will likely be more cases of the swine flu detected in the U.S., adding those cases will grow more severe.
When I see pictures of Jocelyn Elders as “Surgeon General” I always remind myself that 50% of all doctors graduated in the bottom half of their class from medical school.
With regards to Napalitano I am once again forced to declare that the nation’s loss was Arizona’s gain. Perhaps the Secy of the Dept of Homeland Security will be now known as “Secretary Flu-dyke.”
I’m going to give them credit on this call. It allows them to distribute to state authorities the stocks of antiviral medications and other medical equipment for treating increased numbers of patients.
Now, if they can only figure out where they are stored...
No, they aren’t testing airplane passengers returning from Mexico.
Otherwise they might have found my sister in law who came back to SF on Wednesday with vomiting and fever.
I can read between the lines of that quite well.
KSAT-TV: Texas closes 14 schools and district facilities in the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District due to swine flu.
Texas officials say they have found a number of additional suspected swine flu cases. The 14 closures will take effect immediately.
Call it H1N1 of 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1#Mexican_swine_flu
This section documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.
Wikinews has related news: Outbreak of swine flu in Mexico kills at least twenty, infects 1,000
Main article: 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak
Mexican officials state that since March 2009, there have been over 1000 reported cases and put the death toll at 81, with 20 confirmed to be linked to a new swine influenza strain of Influenza A virus subtype H1N1.[9][10][11] Officials in the United States said that seven people were infected with swine flu in California, two in Texas, and two in Kansas all have recovered.[12] Kansas state health officials confirmed two cases of swine flu in Kansas on 25th April 2009, just minutes after eight school children in New York City were believed to be infected after a school trip to Mexico. The New York case has been confirmed as Influenza A Virus, which meets the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC) definition of a probable case of swine flu. Tests have now confirmed that this flu virus is the new strain of H1N1, according to reports on UK BBC News 24. In Canada, the virus has not been confirmed.[13] There are no confirmed cases outside North America. In London a member of a British Airways cabin crew was taken to hospital with “flu-like symptoms” after falling ill on a flight from Mexico City to Heathrow, but the man’s results were negative. There are ten suspected cases in New Zealand with students whom had visited Mexico. Like the US students, they tested positive for Influenza A which means swine flu is highly likely. There have also been reports of suspected infection in Canada, Chile, France and Israel. Airports worldwide are on alert, with passengers from Mexico entering Japan being screened for the virus. The head of the World Health Organization will lead the agency’s efforts against a deadly swine flu outbreak.[14][15] The World Health Organization warns this new swine flu has the potential to become an international influenza pandemic.[16] On April 25, 2009, the World Health Organization has issued a document called the Swine influenza frequently asked questions.[17] On 24th April 2009, the World Health Organization agreed that the current situation constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. [18]
My apologies if this has been answered. I just pulled in from the Freeper Convention in Orlando, and I'm skimming a few threads prior to taking a quick nap, LOL.
Leni
Leni
A chip that will turn people into robots? Come on man. I like a good conspiracy theory, but they’ve at least got to be slightly plausible. LOL
Vitiligo all over, like Michael Jackson?
Wow. I feel so secure. I passed at least five to ten Mexican vehicles today on the interstate. I guess they weren’t ill.
An excuse to implement a “Civilian National Security Force” that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded” as the military.
Meanwhile — they suspend all sales of guns and ammo to those who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren’t like them.”
Napolitano in charge of HS is like having that stupid Governor of Louisiana during Katrina in charge. At least our troops won’t be getting sick. They’re safe in Iraq.
How about “Mexican Influxuenza”?
I think I have Obamacitus
Me too...I would just like to know what’s going on. The transcript of that radio show didn’t sound phony. It really does sound like something secretive is going on - Raymour and Flanagan trucks with some sort of vaccine, the guys who are driving them having to be vaccinated, not being able to tell anyone anything, being paid a lot of money for transporting this stuff...Who knows - maybe they were tipped off that something bird flu or something is coming and don’t want to alarm the public, but I just don’t trust this administration. I would be more likely to think that they’re up to something - creating a crisis to push through more socialist legislation.
LOOKED incompetent?????
Well...........
Agreed. I’ve never had a flu shot, none of my kids either, and we’ve never had the flu. My best friend is a nurse and warns against flu shots for the general population due to side effects (she says during her decade in hospitals she saw many more victims of the flu shot than the flu, that the shot’s illness is often worse than the flu itself). Add to that the fact that the flu shot is often a guess regarding strain and I tend strongly in her direction.
This is one of those occasions where I say, reading about that school in Queens, thank God for homeschooling and naturally strong immune systems!
Oh, and we are in agreement about the Steelers too. :)
If they could prevent a flu, they could prevent the common cold, and as far as I can determine, they can’t do that. Viruses can’t be treated with antibiotics either.
This all makes me think about the disclosure a few months ago that active viral cultures were injected into a bunch of healthy people in the Czech Republic. They were said to be vaccines. The whole story didn’t make any sense, except the bad kind. There seemed no good reason to have stocks of injectible virus . . . tinfoil stuff.
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