A Potential Pandemic & Now An Earthquake!
September 22nd, 2009 | by admin |Ernie Fitzpatrick asked:
Sometimes when it rains, it pours and that’s got to be what the people of central Mexico are thinking. There are now more than 100 deaths from the swine flu outbreak. Over the wekend most public events were cancelled including church services. Then to make matters worse, this new week kicks off with a 6.0 earthquake between Acapulco and Mexico city.
The 6.0-magnitude quake was centered near Chilpancingo, about 130 miles southwest of Mexico City or 50 miles from the resort of Acapulco, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged caution over travel to Mexico due to an outbreak of swine flu and said the United States took the issue “very seriously.” “We have put up on our website information and urging caution with those who are planning to travel,” Clinton said. “We are taking this very seriously and working also with the World Health Organization and other countries to try to develop a strategy to prevent the spread of this form of swine flu,” she added.
Who knows where this might go?
One of the world’s biggest cities slowed to a snail’s pace on Sunday as millions in the Mexican capital hid indoors to avoid infection from a flu virus that has killed more than 100 people. The Roman Catholic faithful listened to mass on the radio rather than go to church, a professional soccer game was played in an empty stadium and weekend cyclists stayed off the road in a lock-down of a normally chaotic city of 20 million people. “This is the first time I’ve left the house in two days. I had to get some air,” Juan Casiano a 39-year-old office worker said walking briskly through a park in the upscale Polanco neighborhood. “But I’m going to stay the rest of the day inside.”
President Barack Obama said Monday the threat of spreading swine flu infections was a concern but “not a cause for alarm,” while customs agents began checking people coming into the United States by land and air. The World Health Organization said there were 40 confirmed cases in the U.S. but no deaths.
The quickening pace of developments in the United States in response to some 1,600 swine flu infections in neighboring Mexico—and reports of over 100 deaths—was accompanied by a host of varying responses around the world. The European Union advised against nonessential travel to the U.S. and Mexico, while China, Taiwan and Russia considered quarantines and several Asian countries scrutinized visitors arriving at their airports.
Braided Fishing Line
Sometimes when it rains, it pours and that’s got to be what the people of central Mexico are thinking. There are now more than 100 deaths from the swine flu outbreak. Over the wekend most public events were cancelled including church services. Then to make matters worse, this new week kicks off with a 6.0 earthquake between Acapulco and Mexico city.
The 6.0-magnitude quake was centered near Chilpancingo, about 130 miles southwest of Mexico City or 50 miles from the resort of Acapulco, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged caution over travel to Mexico due to an outbreak of swine flu and said the United States took the issue “very seriously.” “We have put up on our website information and urging caution with those who are planning to travel,” Clinton said. “We are taking this very seriously and working also with the World Health Organization and other countries to try to develop a strategy to prevent the spread of this form of swine flu,” she added.
Who knows where this might go?
One of the world’s biggest cities slowed to a snail’s pace on Sunday as millions in the Mexican capital hid indoors to avoid infection from a flu virus that has killed more than 100 people. The Roman Catholic faithful listened to mass on the radio rather than go to church, a professional soccer game was played in an empty stadium and weekend cyclists stayed off the road in a lock-down of a normally chaotic city of 20 million people. “This is the first time I’ve left the house in two days. I had to get some air,” Juan Casiano a 39-year-old office worker said walking briskly through a park in the upscale Polanco neighborhood. “But I’m going to stay the rest of the day inside.”
President Barack Obama said Monday the threat of spreading swine flu infections was a concern but “not a cause for alarm,” while customs agents began checking people coming into the United States by land and air. The World Health Organization said there were 40 confirmed cases in the U.S. but no deaths.
The quickening pace of developments in the United States in response to some 1,600 swine flu infections in neighboring Mexico—and reports of over 100 deaths—was accompanied by a host of varying responses around the world. The European Union advised against nonessential travel to the U.S. and Mexico, while China, Taiwan and Russia considered quarantines and several Asian countries scrutinized visitors arriving at their airports.
Braided Fishing Line
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