2,000 Students at US University Report Swine Flu Symptoms

From Yahoo News

Some 2,000 students at Washington State University have reported symptoms of swine flu, university officials said, in one of the largest reported outbreaks of the virus on a US college campus.

The west-coast school last week instituted a blog to help provide information to students about the sudden and dramatic spread of the A(H1N1) virus on campus just days into the new school term.

"We estimate that we have been in contact with about 2,000 students with influenza-like illness in the first 10 days of our fall semester," the latest online posting said.

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The Deadly Flu Pandemic of 1918

A World Health Organization official is warning that even if the Swine Flu epidemic dies out in coming weeks, it could rebound with far more deadly force in the Fall. According to The Telegraph:

"more than 150 deaths are thought to be related to swine flu, although only seven have been confirmed as being caused by the virus. The United States has announced 44 mild infections, while three people have the virus in New Zealand and six in Canada. There have been two confirmed cases in Spain and one in Israel, and fiften other countries have said they are investigating possible infections. Six people were being tested in Ireland."

The worst flu pandemic the world has ever known has been largely forgotten, but it killed more Americans than all the wars of the twentieth century combined. It is thought to have killed at least a half-million Americans and 30 million worldwide. The following documentary chronicles that deadly pandemic of 1918.

Pandemic Feared As Swine Flu Spreads

It was just days ago that Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, told us that illegal immigration is not a crime, even though the statute says that it is. As with most liberals, national survival doesn't mean much to the cabinet member charged with ensuring it. But personal survival is quite another matter for her sort. Now that foreign invaders threaten the lives of her family, friends and neighbors back in Arizona, securing the national borders may yet become as high a government priority as no smoking bans, seat belt enforcement, and safe sex.

Scientists search for answers in new strain

From The Washington Times
By Associated Press

A new swine flu strain that has killed as many as 81 people and sickened more than 1,000 across Mexico has "pandemic potential," the World Health Organization chief said Saturday, and it may be too late to contain the sudden outbreak.

Mexico's president assumed new powers Saturday to isolate people infected with a deadly swine flu strain as authorities struggled to contain the outbreak.

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