Until yesterday, I had never heard of 'Swine Flu'..
I came across a national press conference on CNN, about the pandemic, and started getting nervous about what was going on.
According to CNN
"Early Tuesday, the swine flu outbreak in Mexico was suspected in 152 deaths and more than 1,600 illnesses. While authorities wait to verify whether the virus is responsible for all the deaths, the number of confirmed cases is sobering: 19 infected; seven others dead; and thousands flooding hospitals. So far, at least 113 cases have been confirmed worldwide, including 64 in the United States".
This is extreamly frightening to hear, ecspecially since I learned in class today that the media is doing a poor job keeping people informed on what is happening, resulting in spread panic across the GLOBE!
Mexico has closed all schools until at least May 6 to help curb the spread of swine flu and ordered restaurants only to serve takeaway meals, so customers do not congregate. They also have
armed police officers guarding hospitals in Mexico City while roads and schools in the city of 20 million people are deserted. Officials also have talked about shutting down the bus and subway systems.
Check out CNN's link to see how countries are trying to stay safe! http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/27/swine.flu.preparations/index.html
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well, since the media is doing a bad job about keeping us informed, i'd like to thank you for taking the time to give us some insight! it was helpful.
ReplyDeleteSwine flu is SOOO in right now. HAHa. I did an open-mic night last night and of the 25 performers about 22 of them had a swine-flu joke. I just heard about it myself for the first time about 4 days ago, and now I cannot escape it. It's weird to because there has been minimal cases of it in the U.S. but still people are FREAKING out!
ReplyDeleteI really hadn't heard about Swine Flu either until about a week ago, and now that's almost all that I see on the news. I wasn't all that concerned until I heard that it had spread to New York...and then to Massachusetts (there were two confirmed cases in Lowell). So now I am one of those people that are "Freaking out". I make sure I have my hand sanitizer wherever I go, haha.
ReplyDeleteThere was a swine flu scare at my apartment since 2 of my flatmates got back from Mexico at 1am on Sunday, April 26 and then one of them was so sick we knew we had to take her to the hospital that night. Funny enough, I hadn't thought anything about it even though I had read stuff about it in Mexico before that, but then my fiance mentioned it when he was bringing the car around for her. When I told my mom and she found out they had been in Mexico, she told me to go to health services. At this point I could see the apts., so I went later, and they didn't even care (I had no symptoms except allergies). At that point I hoped it WAS swine flu because I was so annoyed from walking all the way back there in the heat for nothing. Turns out they were fine too. I'm so sick of swine flu.
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