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"More cases of swine flu reported; WHO warns of 'health emergency'"

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" * Story Highlights * NEW: Mexican Health Ministry given emergency powers * NEW: Two cases confirmed in Kansas; more suspected in New York * NEW: Mutated form concerns World Health Organization * 68 die from swine flu in Mexico; all schools closed in Mexico City (CNN) -- A potentially deadly new strain of the swine flu virus cropped up in more places in the United States and Mexico on Saturday, in what the World Health Organization called "a public health emergency of international concern." The most recent reports Saturday afternoon were of two confirmed cases of the virus in Kansas -- bringing the number of confirmed U.S. cases to 11. Those joined nine confirmed cases in Texas and California and an apparent outbreak at a private school in New York City, where officials say eight children likely have the virus. Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday issued an executive decree detailing emergency powers of the Ministry of Health, according to the president's office. The order gives the ministry with the authority to isolate sick patients, inspect travelers' luggage and their vehicles and conduct house inspections, the statement said. The government also has the authority to prevent public gatherings, shut down public venues and regulate air, sea and overland travel. The WHO's Gregory Hartl said the strain of the virus seen in Mexico -- which may have killed as many as 68 people there, according to that nation's health agency -- is worrisome because it has mutated from older strains. "Any time that there is a virus which changes ... it means perhaps the immunities the human body has built up to dealing with influenza might not be adjusted well enough to dealing with this new virus," Hartl told CNN. In Mexico, otherwise young and healthy people have been hit by the virus -- "one of the pieces of the puzzle that is worrying us," he said. Mexico City has closed all of its schools and universities because of the virus, and the country's National Health Council said all Saturday's soccer games would be played without public audiences. VideoWatch an alarmed Mexico City react with face masks, cancellations » WHO has sent experts to Mexico at the request of the country's government, Chan said. Dr. Jason Eberhart-Phillips, director of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, was expected to officially announce the two cases later Saturday, a written statement from the state said. All of the eight U.S. patients in Texas and California have recovered, Dr. Richard Besser, the acting director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday. Two of the cases were in Texas, near San Antonio, and six of the cases were in southern California, the CDC said. U.S. health officials said Friday they were concerned that some cases of the swine flu virus, which has infected eight people in the United States, matched samples of a virus that may have killed at least 68 people in Mexico. VideoWatch for more on the U.S. cases » More than 1,000 people have been sickened in Mexico, and officials are trying to determine how many of those patients have swine influenza, the country's health minister, Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos, said. U.S. health officials said Friday that some cases of the virus matched samples of the deadly Mexican virus. On Saturday, New York's Bureau of Communicable Diseases said preliminary tests from a Queens school suggest that eight out of the nine cases of the virus found there are probably swine flu. Dr. Don Weiss said the samples will be sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine the subtype of the strain. The results will likely come back either Sunday or Monday. He said the samples, which were taken from oral and nasal swabs from nine students at St. Francis Preparatory School, came back positive for "Type A" flu and the tests will need to determine the samples' subtype -- which could be swine flu. He said up to 200 students at the school reported feeling ill. "What's concerning about this is, first, that it's likely swine flu; second is that at this time it is spreading from person to person," Weiss said. VideoWatch author John Barry discuss potential for a pandemic » When the flu spreads person-to-person, instead of from animals to humans, it can continue to mutate, making it a tougher strain that is harder to treat or fight off. The people sickened in Kansas are a man who traveled to Mexico on business and his wife, Eberhart-Phillips said. The man had flu-like symptoms when he returned and went to his doctor, and his wife got sick about three days later, officials said. Neither of them was hospitalized, and one is still sick, he said. The United States had not issued any travel warnings or quarantines by Saturday afternoon. The Canadian Public Health Agency had issued a travel health notice, saying, "The Public Health Agency of Canada is tracking clusters of severe respiratory illness with deaths in Mexico." Symptoms of swine flu include fever, lethargy, lack of appetite, coughing, runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, the CDC said. Besser advised people with flu-like symptoms to stay home from work or school and to see a doctor."

4/25/2009 8:28:57 PM

dude we got one of these threads for every fucker who has died from swine aids ok we don't need another you're just gonna kill more people

4/25/2009 8:30:01 PM

i am digging a bunker off kaplan

and wrapping the door in duct tape

4/25/2009 8:32:50 PM

cook it first, problem solved

4/25/2009 8:42:58 PM

oh sweet i had no idea there was a comic book version of the stand

4/25/2009 8:45:12 PM

actually, this does raise concerns for me. my parents are with my daughter at disney world till thursday. if swine flu gets passed around disney, we in for trouble

4/25/2009 8:58:56 PM

^

4/25/2009 11:19:57 PM

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" 81 dead in Mexico as flu emergency goes global Mexican officials are asking residents to refrain from kissing as a greeting and maintain a distance of at least 6 feet from each other amid concern over swine flu infection. Eighty-one deaths in Mexico are "likely linked" to the virus. In the U.S., 11 swine flu cases have been confirmed; and in New Zealand, 22 students and three teachers who traveled to Mexico may have been infected. full story"

4/26/2009 9:46:23 AM

i read last night that a doctor in mexico city says the number of dead is at least 200.


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4/26/2009 9:49:42 AM

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"NY awaits confirmation of probable swine flu cases Swine Flu School Students at a New York City high school could learn as early as Sunday if the flu that sickened them was the same strain of the human swine influenza that has killed people in Mexico. "

4/26/2009 10:31:09 AM

this thread may be the only thing that survives.

4/26/2009 10:31:34 AM

the mortality rate of the 1918 spanish flu was between 2.5-5%

if the mexican gov't is reporting 1000 sick with 81 dead, well.. you do the math

4/26/2009 10:43:37 AM

it's god's way of punishing all the fags and nigger-lovers.

4/26/2009 10:46:59 AM

yeah, and it is just getting started.

4/26/2009 10:47:48 AM

BUTTERFLIES

IN

STOMACH

MACHETE

IN

HAND

4/26/2009 10:54:10 AM

4/26/2009 11:41:11 AM

^ the best

4/26/2009 12:38:12 PM

BEWARE OF ZOMBIE PIGS AND ZOMBIE PEOPLE!

4/26/2009 12:54:43 PM

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=505588

4/26/2009 1:06:19 PM

THE NORMAL FLU HAS KILLED MORE THAN THIS SWINE FLU HAS....IF IT WAS 95% FATAL THEN WE WOULD HAVE ISSUES....

4/26/2009 1:16:13 PM

THE NORMAL FLU HAS KILLED MORE THAN THIS SWINE FLU HAS....IF IT WAS 95% FATAL THEN WE WOULD HAVE ISSUES....

4/26/2009 1:16:13 PM

facepalm

4/26/2009 1:17:58 PM

i feel pretty confident with my chances, having survived:

• anthrax
• monkeypox
• avian flu
• flesh eating bacteria
• various grocery store recalls

4/26/2009 1:29:46 PM

^no SARS?

4/26/2009 1:31:01 PM

if this is the end of days would this be the fitting disease to take us out?

4/26/2009 1:34:17 PM

this is only 1% as scary as killa bees

I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

4/26/2009 1:52:29 PM

I can dig some swine

4/26/2009 3:18:52 PM

HOLY SHIT. MARKO DIDN'T SURVIVE SARS.


RIP MARKO


197? - 200?

4/26/2009 3:20:23 PM

I guess he needs to update his status to The Ghost of Tom Joad.

4/26/2009 3:40:01 PM

http://www.shouldibeworriedaboutswineflu.com

WHEW

4/26/2009 9:41:10 PM

Good thing I live on an island with people who don't even know what Mexico is

4/26/2009 9:45:01 PM

but there you got to worry about worse things like SARS and creepy/wierd asian men..

4/26/2009 9:48:23 PM

Maybe this will prompt our government to quit letting so many fucking Mexicans walk illegally across the border.

4/26/2009 9:50:38 PM

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"Total Number of Global Swine Flu Deaths to Date: 81*"

sure, until that number shoots up exponentially in the next week or so

4/26/2009 9:51:06 PM

^^ we have a genius on our hands everyone!

4/26/2009 9:52:21 PM

THE SHOCK ROOM IS OPEN!!!
SHOCKING!

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2009/04/26/newton.uk.who.swine.flu.cnn

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4/26/2009 9:54:03 PM

social breakdown is what you have to fear, not getting sick.

that and the damn economy tanking.

imagine whats going on in mexico happening here.

all the sudden parents have to stay home with their children, people arent working so they have to steal for food.

if youre morman, watch out. people coming after your shit

4/26/2009 9:55:02 PM

I'm using this as my excuse to stay home from work, buy all the bread and milk in the store, and make a run on my bank.

4/26/2009 10:15:06 PM

it's the fucking FLU

YAWN

4/26/2009 10:19:44 PM

Don't we have a terrible outbreak every 90 years or so?

4/26/2009 10:52:40 PM

i think swine flu is just a diversion while the killer robot mosquitoes suck out all our precious bloods

4/26/2009 11:27:39 PM

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"if youre morman, watch out. people coming after your shit"

wat?

4/26/2009 11:32:16 PM

mormons stockpile food and other supplies for emergencies

4/26/2009 11:47:22 PM

4/27/2009 12:13:00 AM

We are all fucked, start panicking

4/27/2009 6:30:43 AM

there are on average, 3 global flu pandemics per century


we were overdue for one


this could be a relatively mild pandemic



hopefully will not be on the same scale as the 1918 pandemic

4/27/2009 9:22:56 AM

RUN BITCH! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, GET SOME HELP!

4/27/2009 9:25:09 AM

Are we totally convinced that this isn't just a cover for the Rage virus?

4/27/2009 11:27:19 AM

on the news they keep saying "epidemic" (at least on msnbc, they do)

it kind of bothers me

4/27/2009 11:28:57 AM

4/27/2009 3:24:06 PM