Swine flu

So there is this new public health emergency known as the swine flu or H1N1 virus. People are going crazy over it, wearing masks and not riding the subway. Its like its SARS or something. Ok but in all seriousness, America needs to close the boarders off to Mexico until this thing is under control. Do not allow people to travel to the region since the outbreak started there. Uhh duh. Hello America wake up! Just a couple of days ago Japan tighten their border checks in efforts to reduce the number of swine flu cases in the region. How can Obama say its "not a cause for alarm" when it was declared a public health emergency? Furthermore, the EU is urging citizens not to travel to the US?

I think that the U.S. needs to step up its game in creating a vaccine. One upside is that this thing is responding to regular flu medicines. The outbreaks keep increasing. I actually have a friend who stopped going out.period. no seriously. just stopped going out. its kinda over the top but whatever.

there are now over 5100 cases in 48 states in the U.S. as of may 19th 2009. how much longer can this go on? there are sixteen schools closed in NYC alone. however, the WHO is not ready to raise the level to 6, its highest risk level for pandemics.

japan continues to see the largest outbreak of swine flu

my school thought they had a confirmed case of swine flu but we didnt so thats good. phewww.
Ok so an update as of June 11th, the WHO (World Health Organization) has finally raised the level to a pandemic because of the number of outbreaks the world has seen. There are over 20,000 cases now. Australia fears it will rock their tourism industry. This is the first time a pandemic has been declared by the WHO in 41 years.