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Swine Flu - WHO Cares
JustOneMinute —
If you are having trouble staying awake and staring at the ceiling all night, add the swine flu to your list of worries: By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 25, 2009 11:08 AM The swine flu virus that is responsible for an outbreak in Mexico and has been detected in the southwestern United States has the potential to cause a pandemic, a top international health official said today. "It has pandemic potential," Margaret Chan, the director-general of the World Health Organization, told reporters during a telephone briefing. "It is infecting people." ...
Headed Your Way
Jules Crittenden —
... . Your public health officials, not on the ball: Washington Post . Most of the cases so far are in California and Texas, not surprisingly, given the high volume of legal and illegal traffic across the Mexican border. Already some linkage of swine flu and immigration policy, compliments of ...
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: “U.S. public health officials did not know about a growing…
Instapundit —
... THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: “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. . . . U.S. public health officials are still largely in the dark about what’s happening in Mexico two weeks after the outbreak was recognized.” ...
Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup
Pirate's Cove —
... Not a blog, but, the Washington Post points out that the Obama admin was a week behind in finding out about the swine flu ...
The Swine Flu Discovery Shows How Amazing The Modern Health System Is
The Moderate Voice —
... Now that it appears that the swine flu has officially reached “crisis” proportions that requires a White House response, I started looking for background information on the virus. This Washington Post article has a good timeline. ...
Alert! Alert! Alert!
Wizbang —
... disaster, killed 774 people, half of which were 65 years and older. Dr. David Nabarro, Chief Avian Flu Coordinator for the United Nations, proclaimed the bird flu could kill 150 million people. In reality, the total death count was 257. Of course, swine flu could surpass all estimates. So tune into your local station, duct-tape your house, and do EXACTLY what the Obama administration says. Your life depends on it. Or maybe not. Kim adds: Unfortunately, US public health officials are slow on the uptake regarding this new outbreak. U.S. public health officials did not know ...
WaPo
Sister Toldjah —
U.S. Slow to Learn of Mexico Flu
Anything Worth Reacting To…
Blue Crab Boulevard —
... in order to mobilize maximum resources to combat fears of a global swine-flu pandemic. The term “sounds more severe than it really is,” said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who called the measure “standard operating procedure,” adding, “I wish we could call it a declaration of emergency preparedness.” The same measures, she said, were taken for the inauguration and in cases of flood and hurricane. The clueless bit? Well, it seems the outbreak began two weeks ago - and Mexican authorities began taking steps to curb it a week ago . U.S. public health officials did ...
Corporate irresponsibility/negligence led to swine flu outbreak?
At-Largely —
While the Washington Post was busy chasing a useless story about the nano-seconds of delay from the Obama administration with regard to the swine flu, someone else is actually trying to figure out where the flu originated from ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... Of course, you should note that the Founding Bloggers want you to read "the rest of the quote," not the rest of the article it's quoted from. That article is from The Washington Post; it contains this explanation for why Canada's response was faster than that of the United States: ...
Swine Flu: Conservative Republicans Want to Kill You
Pajamas Media —
... to assist in dealing with the problems. There is no HHS secretary yet, as Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius awaits the pleasure of Democrats in the Senate. The president’s first choice, Tom Daschle, withdrew his name after a wee spot of trouble with the tax man, and, as is his fashion, the president went about the task of naming a replacement for him in a leisurely fashion. In fact, given that the top 19 desks at at HHS are currently vacant, it’s no wonder that the administration was caught napping on the magnitude of the swine flu problem: U.S. public health officials did ...
Swine Flu Disconnect
A Blog For All —
... . The Administration says that those empty posts aren't getting in the way of the response, but US health officials were in the dark about what was happening in Mexico for two weeks . The delayed communication occurred as epidemiologists in Southern California were investigating milder cases of the illness that turned out to be caused by the same strain of swine flu as the one in Mexico. In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and the more recent emergence of H5N1 bird flu in Asia, national and local health ...
Hecho en Mexico: Swine Flu
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely —
... There's already a fairly alarmist report in the WaPo about breakdowns in communication between the U.S. and Mexican governments with a false implication that the outbreak could have been contained in Mexico. ...
