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Canadian Officials Knew of Rare Strain Before Americans Did U.S. public health officials did not know about a growing outbreak of swine flu in Mexico until nearly a week after that country started invoking protective measures, and didn’t learn that the deaths were caused by a rare strain of the influenza until after Canadian officials did. Whether delayed communication among the countries has had a practical consequence is unknown. However, it seems that U.S. public health officials are still largely in the dark about what’s happening in Mexico two weeks after the outbreak was recognized. Asked at a news conference yesterday whether the number of swine flu cases found daily in Mexico is increasing — a key determinant in understanding whether an epidemic is spreading — Anne Schuchat, an interim deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said, « I do not know the answer to those questions. » Mexican officials sent lung and throat swabs to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg to be characterized. « The only reason the samples went first to Winnipeg is because the paperwork is easier. We were in a rush, » Hernández said. |
P.-S. En 2005, Barack Obama a accusé George Bush de prendre à la légère le risque d’une pandémie de grippe aviaire.
Obama said not to worry all we have to is to wash our hands and inflate our tires.
No HHS secretary, no top department heads at the agency, no permanent director at CDC, no surgeon general, and in charge of this flu emergency is a rather heavy, but well-meaning secretary of homeland security who looks under her bed every night for fascists, neo-Nazis, Kluxers, and veterans returning from the wars who she believes will go rogue and join the militia movement.
Come to think of it, maybe if we told Napolitano that swine flu was a right-wing extremist plot hatched by abortion foes and anti-illegal immigration activists, she’d have the government whipped into shape to face this crisis in no time.
So Obama and his half-government seem to be doing all they can to both scare people to death and downplay the crisis. Nice trick if you can pull it off. But they aren’t, so it’s now time for plan B – and that’s « B » for « Blame the Republicans. »
Who knows maybe Iran produced that virus and planted it in Mexico to evade suspicion hoping that some sick mexican would infect G.W.Bush on his ranch near the border.Lol.
Garvey,
Im always delighted by your comments. Keep it up!
http://www.ronpaul.com/2009-04-28/ron-paul-dont-panic-over-the-swine-flu/