World Wide Public Health Officers are on the highest Vigil Mode for the week to come.
As Revere state it, We all live in a set of overlapping communities: work, home, neighborhood, civic organizations, churches, professional groups, etc. Our success as communities will depend crucially on whether neighbors help each other. Calls for individual responsibility can too easily slip into a brutal survivalist mentality that prepares for the infrastructure collapse apolcalypse.
In that scenario it's everyone for him/herself. But independently of government there is the fundamental question about what community members will choose to do for each other.
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A lot of Medical and Flu Forum have emerged in the last five years pandemic and we have succeeded in the last few years with sharing of informations in somany countries with usual and emergings diseases that I am convince that we will indeed succeed in reducing morbidity and mortality in this swine flu crisis.
Here is today Wrap Up.
Stock markets catch H1N1, the Swine virus
Crawford in his blog http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/... state Via the Houston Chronicle on Sunday night: Asian stock markets retreat amid swine flu fears.
Excerpt:
Asian stock markets retreated Monday as investors worried the outbreak of swine flu in North America could grow into a worldwide pandemic that deepens the global recession.
Fears over a virus that has already sickened hundreds, and possibly killed more than 100 in Mexico, led investors to buy drug makers and dump airlines like Qantas Airways and Cathay Pacific. Oil prices and the dollar both fell.
In Asia, investors are painfully aware of the toll an epidemic can exact on companies and industries after SARS battered regional economies from Hong Kong to Singapore in 2003.
The markets were still more cautious than panicked, analysts said, yet mindful that the disease could derail what many believe are the beginnings of a recovery in a global economy reeling from its worst downturn in years.
With the markets up sharply since March, the disease could cause more selling should it continue to spread.
From Giuseppi Michaeli Italian blog at http://hygimia69.blogspot.com he gives a summary from a UK Perspective.
4/27/2009
BBC NEWS - World moves to contain flu spread
World moves to contain flu spread
Governments around the world have been hurrying to contain the spread of a new swine flu virus after outbreaks were reported in Mexico, the US and Canada.
At least 100 people are now suspected to have died of the disease in Mexico.
The UN has warned the virus has the potential to become a pandemic, but said the world was better prepared than ever to deal with the threat.
Stocks of anti-viral medicines are being readied and travellers are being screened at some airports for symptoms.
Mexican Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said suspected swine flu cases in his country had risen to 1,614 including 103 deaths.
Of those, 20 deaths are confirmed to have been caused by the new virus.
The US, where 20 people are confirmed to have caught the virus, has declared a public health emergency.
There are also confirmed cases in Canada, and investigations are being carried out on suspected cases in Spain, Israel and New Zealand.
In most cases outside Mexico, people have been only mildly ill and have made a full recovery.
Vigilance urged
The World Health Organization (WHO), the UN's health agency, has said the swine flu virus could be capable of mutating into a more dangerous strain. The BBC talks to people in Mexico City about the flu outbreak.
But officials say they need more information on the virus before deciding whether to raise the global pandemic alert phase.The WHO is advising all countries to be vigilant for seasonally unusual flu or pneumonia-like symptoms among their populations - particularly among young healthy adults, a characteristic of past pandemics.
Only a handful of the Mexican cases have so far been laboratory-confirmed as swine flu, while in the US confirmed cases had only mild symptoms.
Health experts want to know why some people become so seriously ill, while others just develop a cold, the BBC's Imogen Foulkes reports from Switzerland.
Dr Keiji Fukuda, WHO's assistant director-general in charge of health security, said all countries were "looking at the situation seriously" but that a true picture of the extent of the virus was still emerging.
More to come with a Summary and updates of Medical Flu Boards.
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