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Swine Flu in Mexico, a fast developing story...

Spreads human to human...Watching the headlines it looks serious:

At Mexico City's international airport, passengers were questioned to try to prevent anyone with flu symptoms from boarding airplanes and spreading the disease.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090424/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu

There is no vaccination for swine flu and current antiviral treatments like Tamiflu are not effective.

WHO flu alert:

Because of the situation, the World Health Organization planned to consider raising the world pandemic flu alert to 4 from 3. Such a high level of alert — meaning that sustained human-to-human transmission of a new virus has been detected — has not been reached in recent years, even with the H5N1 avian flu circulating in Asia and Egypt, and would “really raise the hackles of everyone around the world," said Dr. Robert G. Webster, a flu virus expert at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/world/americas/25mexico.html?_r=1&em

Should be an interesting story to see how it develops over the weekend. If they announce an actual halt to international flights out of Mexico get ready to practice healthy lifestyles and follow the ounce of prevention...