Fresh
reports from Mexico City are consistent with a major viral flu that is linked with swine flu and avian flu and human flu. We are told that the identification of a "new virus" type came late in the day Thursday April 23. This may be the long feared new killer. Late Saturday 25, Mexico's President
Calderone has now
declared an emergency to give him extraordinary powers to order quarantines. The outbreak is not yet declared a pandemic by WHO, though it is said to demonstrate "pandemic potential." The mortality numbers so far from Mexico, and they are surely old numbers, are 68 dead and one thousand infected.
Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, sent me an alert on this development on Tuesday 21. "...adjacent southern California counties ...two cases of febrile respiratory illiness... caused by infection with a swine influenza A (H1N1) virus... contain a unique combination of gene segments..." Henry Miller has explicated for years the likely progress of a flu pandemic, such as avian flu, H5N1. Henry's projected scenario looks much like the early reports of this outbreak, a new type of virus associated with pigs, birds and humans. There are reports of new swine flu cases in the San Diego area and the San Antonio areas. The freshest
reports indicate at least eight students in a New York City high school are infected. This is strong evidence that the flu has spread to non contiguous locations and is no longer containable in Mexico City by screening the airports and transportation terminals. As of late Saturday 25 April, East Coast time, there are no U.S. Homeland Security travel restrictions or border closings. The White House wants us to know that
POTUS is watching the developments through the reports of CDC, State and Homeland Security.
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