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April 27, 2009
BehindTheMedspeak: Swine Flu Made Simple
The Wall Street Journal's coverage so far trumps that of others.
What swine flu is: here.
Gautam Naik and Betsy McKay's story in today's WSJ was accompanied by a superb graphic (top) that illustrates just how an everyday illness in pigs becomes the basis of a lethal pandemic in humans.
The Centers for Disease Control, slow out of the blocks on this one (it took the CDC about two weeks for the original April 12, 2009 reports out of Mexico to make it upstairs to the carpeted offices of the grand panjandrums in Atlanta) now has an updated website (www.cdc.gov/swineflu ) with its latest bulletins, et al., of course from a U.S. perspective.
The map below shows confirmed cases in the U.S. and Canada as of yesterday (Sunday, April 26, 2009).
The World Health Organization website (www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html) takes a global perspective.
Me, if I'd been planning a trip to Mexico anytime soon
I'd instead use the plane tickets for kindling.
"Your money or your life" is more than the first line of a classic Jack Benny radio exchange.
Just in 25 minutes ago, the headline
above.
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I'm quite sure this is me just being ignorant, but at this stage, is it not pretty much a foregone conclusion that this strain of the flu will soon be everywhere, and there's not a darned thing we can do about it? And if that is so, what exactly will aborting travel between the U.S. and Europe actually change?
Posted by: Randee | Apr 28, 2009 12:31:26 AM
If this is correct:
Don't worry Europe, I'm not going over their either...
And as to my medical status? Regular sinus infection, heading down into my lungs... nothing swiney about it.
Posted by: Rocketboy | Apr 27, 2009 1:27:04 PM
I've been laughed at recently for following this so closely. I don't think so.
This is good:
http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2009/04/swine_flu_a_quick_overview--an.php
So is this:
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/
Posted by: Flautist | Apr 27, 2009 12:58:13 PM
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