Swine Flu news and updates thread

reply to post by asala


Did it mention if he will have any government officials with him, ie governor etc? I assume that bad news will merrit a further announcement from government.

Update

VeratectUS, North Carolina: Two Suspected Swine Influenza Cases in Isolation in Mecklenburg County #swineflu
half a minute ago from web

Reuters_TopNewsU.S. swine flu caseload jumps to 65 r.reuters.com...
less than 5 seconds ago from Reuters.com

~Keeper

[edit on 4/28/2009 by tothetenthpower]

reply to post by Kram09


Just like how we are best placed to weather the financial crisis Urgh, we'll be all dead soon then

Department of homeland security on now..

reply to post by habfan1968


That's great. Not only do I live in Toronto I also work at a hotel in the downtown core. If i come down with symptoms or I hear anything from my hotel I will be the first to let you all know!

Cheers,

Space_Fetus

reply to post by lucentenigma


Because a lot of Catholics went to celebrate Easter in Mexico and brought it back with them is what I think.

It just seems to make sense to me, but I could be wrong.

But not likely. I'm not always right, but I'm very seldom wrong when I've had a chance to think things through.

23 suspected cases in ireland

CNN: "No indication pigs in US are infected".

Like that matters. We care about humans not the pigs. lol

reply to post by mkross1983


That's funny, I thought they were referring to us when they said pigs .

~Keeper

reply to post by TheCoffinman


Links please?
not a 1 line post

Can somebody explain to me why in the USA the Department of Homeland Security keeps making briefings etc? I thought Homeland Security was to do with anti-terrorism, law enforcement that kind of thing. I mean, i know there are debates and different definitions on the word security, but what about FEMA? Shouldn't they be handling this? Anyone?

Update

VeratectNorway: Two Suspected Swine Influenza Cases Admitted to Hospital in Oslo. #swineflu
less than a minute ago from web

~Keeper

wayne county, ny suspected

Originally posted by TheCoffinman
23 suspected cases in ireland

Hey! Dont say that, give me a link.. Im irish, please, i dont want the swine pig to get me!

It is important..if this proves to infect pigs, birds or any other animals (which it very well may) than it will be very bad indeed.

Also..I think people confuse (media and people talking to media included) vaccine with treatments..

Tamiflu is not a vaccine..but I think when people say they have xxmill on hand, thats what they talking about, not a vaccine. The vaccine is 3months out at least.

anyone got that google map link showing the progress of the flu and reported affected areas?

it was posted here but I can't find it

Ref news confrence on BBC......Thought that ice cream woman was gona go on about fema camps

reply to post by apacheman


Apparantley you have missed the fact that Mexico is one of the top spring break destinations in the world, and that most of the folks that brought it back to there countries, were in fact students vactioning on spring break.

reply to post by TheCoffinman


can you cite your source re 23 suspected in Ireland?

respects

reply to post by tothetenthpower


That's my area. I'm in Charlotte. I'll try to update anything I learn about.