WHO Confirms Only 10 Deaths from Swine Flu…
The World Health Organization said on Friday that as of 0600 GMT the number of officially confirmed cases of a new flu sweeping around the world was 331 in 11 countries, including 10 deaths.
The figures for what the WHO calls influenza A (H1N1), widely known as swine flu, include 109 confirmed cases with one death in the United States and 156 confirmed cases with nine deaths in Mexico, it said in a statement on its website.
Other countries with laboratory-confirmed cases are Austria (1), Canada (34), Germany (3), Israel (2), Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), Spain (13), Switzerland (1) and United Kingdom (8).
Other estimates of infection are higher. For instance Mexico says up to 176 people have died there and the authorities have confirmed 12 deaths.
Everybody run for the hills and panic just like Joe Botox Biden told us to do! LOL!
On a side note, I will be purchasing the the latest in influenza wear at irinablock.com. “Pimp my flu mask!”
Joe Biden (A.K.A Chicken Little) Says Don’t Ride the Subway and Don’t Use Airplanes
Hey New Yorkers, take a cab to work today. Or walk.
Your Vice President Joe Biden says you should avoid both planes and subways.
NBC New York: “I would not be at this point … [be] suggesting they ride the subway,” Biden said when asked whether he would advise family members to use public transportation.
Biden made his comments during a brief interview on NBC’s “Today” show during an interview with Matt Lauer.
The vice president said if one person sneezes on a plane “it goes all the way through the aircraft.”
Biden said the advice to his family differs from that of the federal government’s to the public because, “That’s me.”
But you know, that’s Joe Biden for ya! Always running his mouth, saying what’s on his mind. So charming.
Swine Flu Reaches Level 5 on Pandemic Scale
World Health Organization (WHO) raised the pandemic alert level to 5 out of 6 late afternoon Wednesday due to the global contraction of the swine flu.
Margaret Chan, the organisation’s director-general, said tonight: “I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.
“Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.”
Making a call to governments, she said: “This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other industries, to the pharmaceutical industry and business industry that certain actions must be undertaken now with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.”
In response, Janet Napoliano raises the national security threat level from Bert to Ernie:
Because I’m a skeptic and a cynic let me be the one to say that there are over 35,000 people that die from the everyday average flu worldwide per year, but we hear nothing about a pandemic when that occurs; only when a couple hundred people die from a virus named after a hog…?
Swine Flu or Too Much to Drink?
In a hysterical turn of events, a plane was quarantined last night at Baltimore Washington International (BWI) Airport in Linthicum, MD. The flight was headed back from Cancun, Mexico and two of the passengers showed several signs of swine flu. With everyone on high alert, it is no wonder that the passengers were stopped and tested. However, they may not have been sick at all – just drunk! LMAO!
AirTran Airways Flight 85 from Cancun, Mexico radioed ahead to the airport about the two men, said airport spokesman Jonathan Dean. They had fevers and were sick to their stomachs.
“The airport’s fire and rescue department responded,” Dean tells WTOP.
“They evaluated the passengers and determined that there was no public health threat. They were actually ill before boarding.”
According to David Paulson, spokesman for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the men had to be isolated and examined to make sure it wasn’t swine flu.
The men did not have respiratory distress that accompanies the flu, Paulson says.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters says the men just had too much to drink.
The men refused treatment after being evaluated. The rest of the passengers had to stay on the plane for a little under an hour.
Swine flu is suspected in 159 deaths and 2,498 illnesses in Mexico. The U.S. reported its first death Wednesday morning.
