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HOW TO: Track Swine Flu Online

This week, news broke of a new and fatal swine flu on the Mexico-U.S. border. It has quickly turned into a growing outbreak and possible pandemic. Knowing about these important and growing cases is vital to public health. Fortunately, there are several useful online resources that track health information and disease outbreaks.

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish – Swine flu outbreak

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I guess this is it..    It is no longer a movie like “Outbreak” , “12 Monkeys” or even “I Am Legend”..

Soon we will see charts like this one..

 

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showing us where the problem is (like… almost everywhere..)

If I have to believe the pandemic severity index we don’t want a CAT 5

 

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but..  what can we do?

 

On “PandemicFlu.gov” there is a lot of info about this.

The “Community Mitigation Strategy by Pandemic Severity” give us some info what to do (and what not!)

 

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If we ever need this info?

I don’t know..    I know that a real pandemic is serious trouble.. We are with so many people now on earth living all in dense crowded cities and because of modern transportation ways you can be anywhere on earth in matter of hours.

 

Maybe this is the end of the world as we know it..    or maybe not..

What do you think?

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