Posted on 04/29/2009 1:30:18 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
The World Health Organisation tonight raised the pandemic alert level to five out of six after the continued spread of swine flu world wide.
Margaret Chan, the organisation's director-general, said tonight: "I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.
"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world."
Making a call to governments, she said: "This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other industries, to the pharmaceutical industry and business industry that certain actions must be undertaken now with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace."
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AP
Egypt orders slaughter of all pigs over swine flu
Published - Apr 29 2009 08:18AM EST
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF - Associated Press Writer
The sky is falling; the sky is falling !!!
Dateline May Day, 2009: President Barack Obama cited the WHO’s declaration of a stage 5 pandemdic alert for swine flu as the reason the Congress will pass a bill over the weekend to completely nationalize Amerika’s health care system.
Isn’t Level 6 Martial Law?
Is that next...
What do you make of this?
You left out the key point:
And so it begins... We're all going to die... Poor and minorities expected to be hardest hit.
This is gonna hurt.. financially.
Every country on Earth will be lined up for money that will never be used for the directed purpose.
This is gonna hurt.. financially.
Every country on Earth will be lined up for money that will never be used for the directed purpose.
Dancing With The Stars will be renewed.
Governor says 3 confirmed cases in Maine...
The Stand, Stephen King
One level per dead person. Somehow this seems to not be right.
So where is this headed?
Dogs and cats living together...mass hysteria!
How do we square this with the fact that thousands die annually from the flu? They only have 7.
Is this supposed to be a drill ... or a joke?
The Pandemic is falling! The Pandemic is falling! The Pandemic is falling!
Piggy Little is as happy as a hog in mud.
Everyone who played into the panic game, just watch what Obama does with the football you were more than happy to help hand him.
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