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Swine flu: pandemic alert level raised to level 5
Times On Line ^ | April 29,2009

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."

Related Links Swine flu – schoolgirl among new British cases WHO stops short of declaring swine flu pandemic Egyptian Christians riot after swine flu cull Multimedia Video: why such a killer? The 1918 flu pandemic She warned: "It really is all of humanity that is under threat in a pandemic."

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TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: captaintripps; flu; influenza; level5; mexicanflu; mexiflu; pandemic; preparedness; swineflu; who
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To: BuffaloJack

We will see...

Were you one of the people who said the stock market could never crash, that real estate only goes up because its gone up every year since WWII?


21 posted on 04/29/2009 1:38:27 PM PDT by FightThePower! (Fight the powers that be!)
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To: Daffynition

NOW that is cute.
Where can I sign up?


22 posted on 04/29/2009 1:39:17 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (http://obamaclock.org/)
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To: pgkdan

I asked the same question ...

Never let a crisis go to waste ....

I think it’s obviously connected to the financial crisis, as most likely a distraction. Wouldn’t they close the borders worldwide if it were real?


23 posted on 04/29/2009 1:39:17 PM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, your surrender your rights.)
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To: Daffynition

ROTFLMAO!


24 posted on 04/29/2009 1:39:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: BunnySlippers

It just started and there is no vaccine, which would mean deaths could be much, much higher.

Will that be the case? Too early, but best to be safe.

This could end up being mostly nothing. Why take that chance?


25 posted on 04/29/2009 1:39:25 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: TaraP

Rex 84: FEMA’s Blueprint for Martial Law in America

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3010


26 posted on 04/29/2009 1:40:02 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (http://obamaclock.org/)
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To: Tarpon

Maybe Martial Law...Maybe the 666 Vaccine for the world.


27 posted on 04/29/2009 1:40:40 PM PDT by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Separation of Church and State)
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To: pgkdan

I can make a hat,
I can make a broach,
I can make a Pterodactyl...

28 posted on 04/29/2009 1:40:58 PM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: TaraP

You mean images like these:

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t628/T628929A.jpg

http://carol14.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/martial-law-poland-1981_42.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/196/495662818_99ffd4e610.jpg

http://www.bulatlat.com/images/3-32/martial%20law4.jpg


29 posted on 04/29/2009 1:41:15 PM PDT by moose2004 (Stand up, speak out and help stop Obamacare and GE)
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To: BunnySlippers
How do we square this with the fact that thousands die annually from the flu? They only have 7.

I understand your question but there is a reason this is more serious. Humans have no natural immunity to the H1N1 strain so it is not like regular flew.

You might ask why it is such a big deal when there are so few cases? For those modeling pandemics, think of the current cases like lighting a fuse. That is why the phase 5 definition has to do with the number of countries and whether the strain is confirmed to be spreading human to human. That is a lit fuse. Then, as it reaches a tipping point, it explodes exponentially. That is how pandemics work. We are still in the fuse lighting phase but the fuse is getting shorter. Now is the time to put in any mitigation strategies before it hits the critical level.

30 posted on 04/29/2009 1:42:09 PM PDT by Pete
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To: TaraP
Egypt orders slaughter of all pigs...

Do you mean they are finally going after all the terrorists?

31 posted on 04/29/2009 1:42:09 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Daffynition


32 posted on 04/29/2009 1:43:38 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: CaptSkip

I was musing to a co-worker that maybe we should just spread the word that we saw a few people on our floor leave work early today and “they didn’t look that well.”

Wonder how long it would take until they quarantine the building and have us all working from home?


33 posted on 04/29/2009 1:43:55 PM PDT by ssaftler (OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: COUNTrecount

Well, FWIW, there is a viable theory that “Native Americans” had a much more extensive & advanced culture in the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans, the first of which (who stayed only briefly) dropped off a virus which eviscerated the native population, leaving only a few to carry on in much more primitive circumstances. Early explorers described finding numerous villages whose inhabitants had either mostly or entirely expired shortly before (the few survivors were unhelpful due to obvious language barriers). Recent biological analysis indicates the indigenous population simply lacked the genetics required to fight off common European diseases; mere flu to the explorers was pervasively terminal to indians.


34 posted on 04/29/2009 1:45:37 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (John Galt was exiled.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Can this swine flu but be transmitted thru the internet? I’ve got a mask and gloves on just as a precaution. ;)


35 posted on 04/29/2009 1:46:01 PM PDT by slimer (“I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.)
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To: Pete

There are almost certainly thousands of cases in the US by now yet few if any deaths. In fact almost everyone here that has been infected has experienced mild symptoms. Same in Mexico, there have been very few deaths yet the virus has been spreading in that country for weeks if not months.

This is entirely overblown and overhyped and it surprises me that so many Freepers have fallen prey to the propaganda.


36 posted on 04/29/2009 1:46:35 PM PDT by tatown
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To: COUNTrecount

If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?


37 posted on 04/29/2009 1:46:52 PM PDT by Gator113 (I'm a PROUD RIGHT WING EXTREMIST.... Obama has failed, IMPEACH Obama NOW....)
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To: COUNTrecount

And on the 100th day, God created a pandemic.


38 posted on 04/29/2009 1:47:02 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: pgkdan
Don't know what to make of it. It seems ironic that this is going on at the same time the History Channel is running a series of what the Earth would be like if all humans just disappeared. Interesting scenario.
39 posted on 04/29/2009 1:47:14 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
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To: TaraP
Isn’t Level 6 Martial Law?

Is that next...


And to the Obama deployed Blue Helmeted UN TROOPS of rapists and murderers, or to the supporting ACORN THUG ARMY, give-up all your guns and ammo.
40 posted on 04/29/2009 1:48:16 PM PDT by CaptSkip
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