Cinco De Swine Flu; Another Death In Texas

Texas has suffered from its second death from Swine Flu as the countries count moves up to 29 and some are scared the number will continue rising. One of the deaths was of a pregnant teacher from Mercedes indepandent School District, which is near the Mexico border. The school annouced its closing shortly after her death. She had delivered a healthy baby while being hospitalized though.

The Texas woman, the second confirmed person to die with swine flu in the U.S., lived not far from the Mexico border and had chronic medical conditions, as did the Mexico City toddler who died of swine flu last week during a visit to Houston, Texas, health officials said.

On the subject of Mexico, it is now annoucing the reopening of the country. Last week the coutry shut down, canceling all flights and exempting itself from cruise ship stops. This was an act to shut down the spread of the virus, but now it is obvious that Mexico is no longer the only country with the problem. So Mexico will be resuming as normal aside from their usual celebrations of Cinco De Mayo.

With 942 people sickened in Mexico at last count, public celebrations of Cinco de Mayo were banned, and politicians' homage to the soldiers who fought off the French 147 years ago were subdued.

For the first time in decades Mexico is cancelling their celebration to resist the spread of Swine Flu in a populated area. Though other cities such as Denver, Chicago, and Los Angeles plan to continue with their celebrations, there is still a great deal of concern for the spread of the virus.

Swine flu has now sickened more than 1,700 people in 21 countries, including more than 600 in the United States. The World Health Organization said it was shipping 2.4 million treatments of antiflu drugs to 72 countries "most in need," and France sent 100,000 doses of antiflu drugs worth $1.7 million to Mexico.

Until then we aare left still looking for the vaccination against Swine Flu and scrubbing down our schools and homes. Maybe this is what we need to bind together countries from all over the world to help find the antivirus. Swine Flu could possibly bring on world peace, provided the human race doesnt die out because of it.

Obama Pulls Us Farther Down The Debt Meter

Once again Barack Obama thinks he can save the world since he was elected president. With the numbers of Swine Flu cases rising everyday he has decided to spend a ridiculous amount of money, that we dont have, to save the day.

US President Barack Obama said the outbreak of swine flu had created a "serious situation" in the United States requiring the "utmost precautions." He also asked Congress to release 1.5 billion dollars to help fight the spread of swine flu.

Excuse me Mr President but where do you plan on getting this money? As i recall we are already broke as a nation and in debt. But you go ahead and make us a third world country, I kind of planned on moving to Australia after you were elected anyways.
On the other hand the vaccine for the Swine Flu is months away but they have already started research for it.

A top US health official told lawmakers that vaccines against seasonal flu were likely to not protect against swine flu and that a vaccine against that deadly disease cannot be ready before September.

Its kind of absurd that we didnt already have this vaccine figured out, I mean dont we have vaccines for everything else but Cancer and AIDS? I would be baffeled if China found the vaccine before we did! But it wouldnt suprise me.
The Flu still does continue to spread hitting more countries around the world and taking more lifes.

CONFIRMED INFECTIONS, according to the World Health Organization and national governments: The United States 65, Mexico 26, Canada 13, Germany 3, New Zealand 3, Britain 5, Costa Rica 2, Israel 2, New Zealand 3, Spain 4, Austria 1.

So Obama put OUR money back in your pocket and use the labs we already have and find a vaccine, before september perferably! I mean unless this is your idea of population control...

Swine Flu Strikes

The newest form of death has taken America by storm and its name is Swine Flu.

Several hundred students have fallen ill at the New York school hit by a swine flu outbreak, city officials said Tuesday as the number of confirmed cases in the United States rose to 68, with at least seven people hospitalized. - MSNBC News

These students should have obviously been given some series of shots before they were shipped of to Mexico. This also makes one wonder where they not showing signs of a sickness before they left Mexico? Though there are several cases in different states, New York is currently the leader in number of Swine Flu cases. Perhaps they just need to shut down New York and quarantine it like they do in the movies.

“It is here and it is spreading,” New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said. “We do not know whether it will continue to spread.”

Scientist have begun to work on a vaccine for the Swine Flu. They have started growing the "seed" of he virus that forms the basis of the vaccine.Test kits are being sent out to all the states to confirm Swine Flu cases and are currently notifying anyone with it should stay home, gives us reason to believe in a few weeks we will find homes full of millions of dead people who were to scared to go out and seek help because they were told to stay home.