Saturday, May 02, 2009

Swine flu may be less potent than first feared

May 1, 2009
By MIKE STOBBE and DAVID B. CARUSO

The swine flu outbreak that has alarmed the world for a week now appears less ominous, with the virus showing little staying power in the hardest-hit cities and scientists suggesting it lacks the genetic fortitude of past killer bugs.

President Barack Obama even voiced hope Friday that it may turn out to be no more harmful than the average seasonal flu.

In New York City, which has the most confirmed swine flu cases in the U.S. with 49, swine flu has not spread far beyond cases linked to one Catholic school. In Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak, very few relatives of flu victims seem to have caught it. the rest

More than 400 schools closed, 140 US flu cases

1 Comments:

At 9:38 PM, Blogger M said...

Yeah, less potent.. that's why pigs in a herd on a hog farm in Canada have contracted swine flu, from a Mexican worker that just returned to Canada, from a vacation, you guessed it, back in his Mexican homeland. I wonder how long it will take before more Canadian and then US pig herds will likewise be infected?

Here's an article from a Vancouver newspaper on the subject: http://www.vancouversun.com/Health/Alberta+herd+quarantined+H1N1+swine+infection+suspected/1558214/story.html

 

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