Many countries around the world have taken what they think are the correct actions to protect their population against the Mexican Flu 2009 virus. Schools are being closed across America. Not only has Egypt ordered the slaughter of all the pigs in the country but have also issued a no kissing order for its population. Lebanon has issued a similar order to stop the traditional greeting of kissing on the checks.
Airports around the globe are on high alert. Many are using the thermal cameras to scan passengers. These were first installed during the SARS breakout a few years ago. Some airlines have even placed doctors on flights from Mexico. This is so the passengers can be inspected before they land and passengers that are suspected as infected can be quarantined.
Macedonia, China, Russia and the Ukraine have stopped all imports of pigs to their countries. Experts have repeatedly issued statements claiming a person cannot contract the Mexican flu from pork or pork products but the world is ignoring their advice.
The Northern Hemisphere normal flu season is at its end. This new outbreak could subside for months and come back with a vengeance next fall like other epidemics have in the past. This is the biggest fear of the Professor Neil Ferguson of the WHO. If 30 to 40% of the world becomes infected next fall then it will truly be a pandemic.
Professor John Oxford at Barts and London sees no need for the world to worry too much. Unlike the avian flu H5N1, he states most of the world’s population has a natural immunity to the Mexican flu virus and he believes the virus will not sweep around the world and large numbers of people will not die of this disease.
The fact is less than 200 people have died from the Mexican flu 2009 so far. The infected have covered the world by mass deaths are not happening as with the 1918 Spanish flu virus. The Mexican flu 2009 is dangerous but not necessarily deadly to everyone as other outbreaks of the past have been.
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