Yes, More Whining About Swine Flu

I love the title of this article. I'm not sure what they mean. It may be a Freudian slip or maybe it's explained in the text and I just don't get it. I can't wait until this one is over so we can get on to the next Government/Media catastrophe.

May 3, 2009
Outbreak in Mexico May Be Smaller Than Feared
By LIZ ROBBINS and DENISE GRADY
The World Health Organization announced on Saturday an increase in the number of confirmed cases of swine flu, but said there was no evidence of sustained community spread outside of North America, which would lead to raising the pandemic alert.
“At the present time, I would still propose that a pandemic is imminent because we are seeing transmission to other countries,” Dr. Michael J. Ryan, the director of the World Health Organization global alert and response team, said in a teleconference on Saturday from Geneva. “We have to expect that Phase 6 will be reached. We have to hope that it is not.”
The organization said that 15 countries had reported a total of 615 cases of the infection, officially known as influenza A(H1N1), up from 367 cases late Friday. Dr. Ryan said that several countries in Europe reported additional confirmed cases on Saturday, including France, Germany, Spain, Great Britain, Israel, but he added: “There are a very small number of cases, it is very limited. At this stage it would be unwise to say that those events are out of control.”
In the United States, the number of confirmed cases rose to 160 in 21 states, up from 141 cases in 19 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Saturday morning.
But even as Mexico, believed to be the epicenter of the outbreak, found that a little more than half of its suspected cases subjected to detailed tests so far did not actually involve the virus and health officials there believed that the spread of the virus was stabilizing, officials in the United States were more cautious about saying the health risk had decreased.
“Apparently the rate of infection is not as widespread as we might have thought,” José Ángel Córdova, Mexico’s health minister, said on Friday.
Of 908 suspected cases that were tested in Mexico, only 397 people turned out to have the virus, Mexican health officials reported on Friday. Of those, 16 people have died. Initially, Mexico had reported as many as 2,500 suspected cases, but the number of actual cases could turn out to be less than half the suspected number if further testing follows the same pattern as the original round.

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