The World Health Organization has raised the level on its six-point pandemic meter to the highest tier. The country of Egypt has begun the mass culling of its pig herds. Vice-President Biden has alarmed Americans by intimating the cautions he is taking with his own family. 176 people have died in Mexico and a small Mexican child has expired in Brownsville, Texas. No deaths have occurred anywhere else and most people are recovering without medicine. The worst complaints are of diarrhea. There is fear of the economic impact a swine flu pandemic could have on the fragile global economy, but there are no signs of struggle outside of an already crippled Mexico. The unfounded fears and the misinformation are rampant, the three biggest sellers on Amazon in the U.S. are types of surgical masks. People are avoiding pork products though the idea of the flu emanating from pigs has been rejected. When this turns out to be an isolated epidemic, will we take the WHO seriously in the future? Click the title above to view an article addressing this wolf cry.
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