Posts Tagged ‘influenza’
Old School Swine Flu
6:07 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Health|Media · 3 Comments
28 Apr 2009So apparently this isn’t the first time in history that the U.S. has been hit with swine flu fears. Just check out the ad below from 1976. I’m sure glad the gov. isn’t using this latest outbreak as an excuse to push vaccines (yet).
Bring on the Chuletas : Swine Flu in the Mala’Hood
6:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · animals|Food|Health|mexico · 2 Comments
27 Apr 2009
Jennifer wrote up about the swine flu outbreak that has emptied Mexican streets and has hit close to home, with a confirmed case of the illness right here in my own home borough of Queens, NYC. Thankfully swine flu isn’t something you can get from eating pork, porque everytime I hear the words “swine flu” I want some chuletas or pernil.
And now swine flu is the new racial profiling:
Secretary Janet Napolitano also said border agents have been directed to begin passive surveillance of travelers from affected countries, with instructions to isolate anyone who appears actively ill with suspected influenza.
In other words don’t stand close to a coughing Mexican? Or if you see a Mexican sneeze call ICE?
Dangerous Swine Flu Breaks Out in Mexico
10:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health|Immigration|Latin America|mexico|World · 3 Comments
26 Apr 2009Mainstream media was a-buzz all weekend with news that a flu originating in swine had broken out in Mexico, killing some 60 people and making several people sick stateside. The SF Chronicle reports:
California doctors and other health experts are on the lookout for cases of a new strain of swine flu, a potentially dangerous virus that has reignited fears of a pandemic flu outbreak after killing about 60 people in Mexico and sickening eight people in the United States.Hospitals and public health departments throughout California, where six of the American cases have been found, were told Friday to increase surveillance of the rare strain of flu that combines genetic material from humans, pigs and birds.
Today it appears that the death toll has risen to 81 in Mexico, and all public events in Mexico City have been cancelled for fear of the disease spreading from person to person, which is apparently how the flu gets around (not from consumption of pork). Kissing has also been banned, as has all other “close contact”.
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