Swine Flu Roundup
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Health Care, Science, The World
There’s been a lot of talk about this little virus the past couple days, so I figured it might be helpful to connect everybody with some more stories that could help you sort the wheat from the chaff.
And away we go…
- Officials in Mexico are scrambling to find the source of the infection, and it points directly to the story about a pig farm we talked about earlier today.
- CBS reports that the Department of Homeland Security is setting some guidelines for a swine flu quarantine. Fingers crossed we won’t have to use them.
- Dems are jumping on the possibly pandemic as a way to show that they’re offering leadership.
- Two deaths in L.A. county were thought to possibly be related to outbreak, but later were proven not to be.
- The CDC thinks there will be at least some American deaths from the flu with 68 reported cases so far.
- Michele Bachmann actually links swine flu outbreaks to Democratic control. Too bad she’s wrong. Otherwise it totally could have become a campaign issue!
- Including Mexico and the US, 7 countries have reported cases but only the ones in Mexico have proven fatal so far.
- A debate is starting about whether or not this should even be called swine flu because people think they could catch it from pork products.
- And to that point, The Ag Secretary has already stopped calling it swine flu and is not talking about the “2009 H1N1 virus outbreak.”
- A vaccine is on its way, but it could still take a few months to grow.
- Will this outbreak be extremely fatal? David Dobbs doesn’t think so and has some numbers to back it up.
So that’s it for now. If you have any stories, drop them in the comments below, but please use URL shorteners like Tr.im or TinyURL.com so the link isn’t huge.
More as it develops…
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April 28th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
I still think we should call it Carnitas Flu.
April 28th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
I have actors friends in NY and they are freaked out by people in the audience wearing surgical masks. Never seen that before.
You know in Japan, they wear masks when they are sick so they don’t give it to others. In the West we wear masks when we afraid WE’RE going to catch something.
April 28th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
michele bachmann is a moron. I don’t get it. How can you take someone like that seriously…
April 29th, 2009 at 2:01 am
Any discussion on the healthcare system in Mexico and why that model has failed so miserably in this situation?
April 29th, 2009 at 3:34 am
Would it be possible to have a 24 hour channel so that Michelle Bachman could entertain us more often?
Palin/Bachman 2012
April 29th, 2009 at 8:14 am
I have been checking on this swine flu tracking website http://www.swine-flu-tracker.com/ on and off for the last couple of days now and its kinda scary seeing how it this strain of flu is spreading.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:04 am
ExiledIndependent: Looks like a combination of a rural origin point far from sophisticated health care, the initial delay in correlating several seemingly isolated cases of influenza, and the relative lack of preparation for a serious outbreak of disease.
May 1st, 2009 at 8:07 am
Check out this website http://www.swine-flu-tracker.com/ that tracks the spread of swine flu, it really puts things in perspective.