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Apr 29 09 4:20 PM

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Mexico City/Geneva/Toronto/London, April 28 (IANS) The death toll from swine flu rose to 152 in Mexico Tuesday and spread like a contagion with cases being reported from the US, Canada, Britain, New Zealand, South Korea and Israel as the WHO raised its pandemic alert level to four.

The World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert level to phase 4 -- the maximum alert level is six - in response to the rapid spread of the H1N1 swine flu outbreak but did not recommend restrictions on travel, DPA news agency reported from Geneva.

Phase 4 means that there is sustained human-to-human transmission of the virus, which causes respiratory illness in pigs and is a genetic mix of swine, human and avian flu strains, in at least one country.

A pig farming area in Mexico's eastern coastal state of Veracruz might be the source of the swine flu strain that has killed 152 people in that country, Xinhua news agency said from Mexico City. As the flu spread, countries all over the world took step to contain the disease, which mimics the symptoms of influenza with fever, coughing, muscle ache and fatigue, including intense screening of passengers at airports.

In Mexico, Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordoba said the toll from confirmed or suspected swine flu cases had risen to 152.

Officials said most of the people who were killed in the flu epidemic were adults aged between 20 and 50. No cases in children have been reported yet. Canada, which has so far reported six cases of swine flu linked to the Mexican outbreak, also tightened airport screening for home-bound passengers and farm workers coming from Mexico.

Each year, more than a million Canadian tourists visit Mexico, while thousands of Mexicans come as temporary farm workers in Canada.

The US reported 40 cases, and 10 cases were confirmed in New Zealand as public health authorities throughout the Asia-Pacific region went on high alert. In Israel, a 26-year-old man who had returned from Mexico with flu-like symptoms was diagnosed with the virus.

Australians were warned against travel to Mexico as doctors monitored the health of 20 people who returned from the Americas with flu-like symptoms. Thailand and South Korea also reported suspected cases of the mutated virus as many countries issued travel advisories.

As concern mounted, WHO said only two types of anti-viral drugs - Tamiflu, also known generically as oseltamivir, and Relenza, which is known as zanamivir - were effective. The drugs, which are under patent, are manufactured by three major multinational companies - Tamiflu by the Switzerland-based Roche and the US-based Gilead and Relenza by Britain-based GlaxoSmithKline.

Some 220 million doses of Tamiflu are in the hands of governments across the world, but rich countries hold most of them - a fact that first came to light after the bird flu epidemic of 2004 (Tamiflu can also cure bird flu). Britain's state-funded health system has stockpiled enough doses of Tamiflu to treat 30 million people - roughly half the country's population - if there is a swine flu outbreak.

The US has 50 million doses of Tamiflu and Relenza.

By contrast, Indian health authorities say they have a million doses of Tamiflu. In addition, Indian pharmaceutical company Cipla, which makes generic copies of Tamiflu, has said it can make another 1.5 million doses within a period of four to six weeks. WHO also holds stocks of Tamiflu.The outbreak and spread of swine flu has come at a time when the global economy is trying to come out of the worst downturn since World War II and has threatened chances of an early recovery, especially in the US.

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Apr 29 09 6:51 PM

No problem. The cold has done worse.

But seriously, fucking Mexico. Filthy country.

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Apr 29 09 7:21 PM

Oh god I ate pork yesterday before I knew about swine flu!

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Apr 29 09 8:12 PM

Roche and Gilead are going to make a fucking mint out of this.

And then something goes off in my brain, and sends an impulse to my jaw, and BAM, a thousand pounds of pressure locked in like a press. I mean, a head your size would burst like an infected kidney, and all I'd remember was how warm the juices were that lapped the back of my uvula on their trip down to stomach-land. But we're friends, right? We know each other. We know what we do, and who we talk to, and what we say to them. Now let's talk about the letter that Liquor got.

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Roche and Gilead are going to make a fucking mint out of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseltamivir

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Apr 30 09 12:57 PM

I say Wesker has really outdone himself this time.

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May 2 09 7:07 PM

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - New laboratory data showed fewer people have died in Mexico than first thought from a deadly new influenza strain, a glint of good news for a world rattled by the threat of a flu pandemic. Mexico cut its suspected death toll from the H1N1 flu to up to 101 from as many as 176, as dozens of test samples came back negative. Fewer patients with severe flu symptoms were also checking into hospitals, suggesting the infection rate of a flu that has spread to Europe and Asia was declining.

South Korea confirmed its first H1N1 case on Saturday, a 51-year-old woman who returned from Mexico in mid-April. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agreed the outbreak may not be as severe as it looked a few days ago, citing many mild cases that were not immediately noticed.

For Mexicans -- who are spending a second weekend stuck indoors with stores and businesses shuttered across the country and the capital, Mexico City, devoid of its lively restaurants, bars, cinemas and museums -- the data is cheering. Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova acknowledged the numbers were encouraging but cautioned it was too early to say Mexico had control of a flu that has infected people in 15 countries.

"For now it's unpredictable," Cordova said late on Friday, noting epidemics can peak again after an initial spurt in infections drops off.

"We need more days to see how it behaves and whether there is really a sustained decline so we can conclude that it's going down," he said.

The new virus is only the third infectious disease experts regard as having pandemic potential in the past 10 years. It has world health experts racing to work on a vaccine and is wreaking havoc with a travel industry that flies hundreds of thousands of people to and from Mexico each week.

China suspended flights to Mexico after Hong Kong authorities on Friday confirmed a Mexican man who flew via the Chinese mainland was infected with the flu strain.

Police in surgical masks quarantined 200 guests and 100 staff inside a Hong Kong hotel where the 25-year-old Mexican had been staying, saying they would be confined for a week.

"They said everybody needed to go back to their rooms. I don't want to go to my room because I want to be out," an Australian man at the hotel told a TV reporter by telephone. The measures taken by the authorities in Hong Kong underscore the concern there about the new flu. Hong Kong was badly hit by the SARS virus in 2003 and has had many episodes of H5N1 bird flu for more than a decade.

Gooky - you can't get swine flu from eating pork :p

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Without duct tape I can't seal the door to keep out swine flu but I can't get duct tape without going outside! Help!

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Without duct tape I can't seal the door to keep out swine flu but I can't get duct tape without going outside! Help!

Take car. Go to Mum's. Kill Phil, grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.

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May 3 09 1:05 PM

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May 26 09 11:19 PM

Update: Sixteen confirmed cases of swine influenza in Australia.

What is swine influenza (swine flu)?

Swine influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza. Swine flu viruses do not normally infect humans, however, human infections with swine flu do occur, and cases of human-to-human spread of a swine flu virus have been recently confirmed.

What are the symptoms?

The symptoms of swine influenza are similar to normal influenza (fever, cough, tiredness, muscle aches, sore throat, chills, shortness of breath, runny nose, headache). Some cases of swine influenza have also complained of vomiting and diarrhoea. In some cases, swine influenza can result in a severe pneumonia. Symptoms of influenza generally appear between two to four days after exposure

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Jun 3 09 10:08 PM

hasnt this flopped yet

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I miss you Ali. I want to come see you. But instead, I'm going to fly your swine flu to SA so you can meet TeeJ.

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Bloody hell =/

Risen to 900 cases now

Think there has only been 2 cases in SAfrica but thats been over a month ago, nothing more, guess no one visits here from el mexico

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Hey guyz, I gotz the swine flu.

Sorry to let you down :p

Seriously? >_>

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