Swine Influenza

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CDC info about Swine flue

There is a lot in the media about the H1N1 swine flu outbreak. Not everything about it is serious, like this cartoon about swine flu and twitter:

The Wall Street Journal has a nice map on the H1N1 Swine Flu outbreak.

Click the map for more info

Come on people, lighten up!

Ok, swine flue is serious business and we have to be careful.

Because of all modern ways of communication, info doesn’t take months or weeks, but just seconds

Radio, tv, telephone, text messages, and don’t forget (mobile) internet with info websites and of course micro blogging like Twitter make this world so much smaller. No longer are we talking about things happen “over there”, because things do happen just right here!

That can be scary.. and some people even don’t want to know what happens around them, because of that..

I disagree!

I think we should be informed and there should be free flow of information. Only this way we are able to make up our own minds.

Will this swine flue outbreak end this world as we know it?   I don’t know..

Countries world wide are working together and our medical capability in the 21st century is just awesome

But.. maybe, just maybe this is “the End of the World as We Know It”

..and I feel fine!

On Google maps you can see all the swine flu cases world wide:

 
View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map

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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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..

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

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!)

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?