Not anymore. This morning there were 5 suspected cases, now there are 88. Results will be verified within 1-2 days.
The reason for the rapidity of the spread is because many of the known cases just so happened to be flying at the time news broke out.
Just so you all know, one of the issues is exactly that until things actually start happening, we won't know whether to consider this a pandemic etc. That is to say there's no real way for us, at this stage, to actually predict the behavior of this pathogen. What the sources seem to have verified, however, is that the antigen is type H1N1 (with elements of H5?), which is unprecedented in human-human transmissable pathogens, which, if the WHO is right in upgrading their pandemic grade to 4 (i.e. what I just said), spells ominous news.
Despite all this, as to whether this will fizzle out or become the next catastrophic pandemic is still unclear.
The swine flu is not going to spread from human to human yet, or by eating pork. We have to wait until a human gets the strain of the flu and it mutates to be able to transmit from human to human.
Better save than sorry. The governments should all decalre emergencies, in case. If the flu is airborne....well than that's worse. My school is taking measures tomorrow.
Lol, so true. If what occured in Pandemic did so in real life, the world population would probably decimate itself from its own stupidity.
Says it all. At least the government did do something in 1976. Precautions are necessary.
Reports of confirmed or suspected cases are in Mexico, UK, New Zealand, republic of Ireland, Australia, France, USA, Canada, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Greece, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy,Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, and South Korea. Also large numbers of asian and latin american countries are screening all people passing through borders, or on a trip in the last 6 months to countries with reported cases
