Swine Flu Emergency In Argentina - Has It Finaly Started!?

[jackdanielsesq]

This appears to be the biggest 'pop' in infections & deaths in a while. It does not bode well, especially as many will be coming here to warm-up. Be careful out there.

BR>Jack

Swine flu emergency in Argentina

The city and province of Buenos Aires have announced a health emergency to fight a swine flu outbreak that has killed at least 26 people in Argentina. Officials are being given more power and resources to tackle the epidemic, and school holidays for millions of children are being extended. Argentina has confirmed more than 1,500 cases of swine flu, which is spreading during the southern hemisphere winter. Meanwhile, an international conference on swine flu is opening in Mexico. Teams from some 40 countries are attending the three-day event in Cancun. The head of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, is also participating.

'Too late'

The health emergency measures in the capital and surrounding Buenos Aires province were unveiled on Tuesday. Local officials said they wanted to improve co-ordination between different state services and to put more medical staff on stand-by.

"Families shouldn't treat this as extra holidays for the kids. They should see it as a time for the children to stay at home as much as possible and avoid places where people are crowded together," said Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri. He also appealed for calm, saying that officials were doing everything possible to control the epidemic. Officials said that restaurants, cinemas and other public buildings would remain open. Much of Argentina's population lives in the capital and the province. Many of the cases in the region have been reported in working class and poorer areas, says the BBC's Candace Piette in Buenos Aires.There has been much criticism that the government may have responded too late to stop the epidemic, our correspondent says.Argentina has had the third largest number of swine flu deaths in the world after Mexico and the United States.

[ukrules]

There does appear to be a rapid acceleration of newly detected cases in some areas.

[jackdanielsesq]

Agreed - even though the most cases are in the Northern (summer) Hemisphere, the most at-risk areas are the winter flue areas, or SH, where it is accelerating fastest. It has also mutated and resists the only 'known' antibiotic Tamiflu.

Once it really gets some more traction, the T&E sector will self-destruct.

I always wonder why they only check arrivals - they should check boardings, as large Jumbo is the perfect storm.

After 10/12 hours, you will have it by the time ya get where ya going.

BR>Jack

[sbk]

not only do we have a swine flu in Thailand forum , this isn't even related to thailand. Just so you know, putting the phrase, 'wonder when its going to happen here" does not make it related.

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