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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Swine flu - coming soon to a theater near you

Swine flu goes global, it is now spread in 2 regions of the world, spread in 74 countries so far, with a bit less than 28,000 cases recorded and 141 deaths.

WHO declares swine flu pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global flu pandemic after holding an emergency meeting, according to reports

The measures for declaring a virus as pandemic are a bit inapplicable in the swine flu case, as 98 to 99% of cases recover without any need of hospitalization.

Cases of swine flu has been reported in Lebanon beginning of June, with 3 cases caught at the airport. More cases have been reported earlier this week. I will check more to know the exact number and what the ministry of health is doing about it.



3 Comments:

At Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:34:00 PM , Anonymous Serpico said...

We don't hear about it on the news anymore! and yet cases are climbing rapidly in Canada.... Well I hope I didn't catch it, I've been having this strong cough for a week now :P

 
At Saturday, June 13, 2009 12:28:00 PM , Blogger Liliane said...

lol hmmm any fever?

 
At Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:07:00 AM , Anonymous Serpico said...

Well yes fever for shi 3 days bass now it's gone. Bass the cough is still on, it's been for 2 weeks like this. I don't wanna test myself cause they'll put me in quarantine :P

 

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