Have you heard of the new swine flue from mexico?

Chief Whachusa

The only mention of Mexico is in the last paragraph.

"Health experts hunt new swine flu after 7 sickened" (in parts)

"ATLANTA -Federal health experts expect to find more cases of a unique new form of swine flu as they check people who had contact with seven California and Texas residents diagnosed with the illness."

"All of the seven victims recovered from the flu that combines pig, bird and human viruses in a way that researchers have not seen before, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday."

"CDC officials detected a virus with a unique combination of gene segments that have not been seen in people or pigs before. The bug contains human virus, avian virus from North America and pig viruses from North America, Europe and Asia."

"U.S. health officials are consulting with Mexican and Canadian health officials, and the CDC is beginning to receive samples from Mexico for testing, a CDC spokesman said. The ethnicity of the seven confirmed cases was not disclosed."
http://news.aol.com/article/swine-flu-cases-up-to-7-probe-expanding/443683?icid=sphere_newsaol_inpage

The link below gives your post some support but it does not blame any one country for this illness.

"Seven people in U.S. hit by strange new swine flu" (in parts)

"All seven people have recovered but the virus itself is a never-before-seen mixture of viruses typical among pigs, birds and humans, the CDC said.

"We are likely to find more cases," the CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat told a telephone briefing. "We don't think this is time for major concern around the country."

Only one of the seven cases was sick enough to be hospitalized and all have recovered, Schuchat said.

CDC officials are unsure whether the cases are related to an unusually late and severe flu season in Mexico in which 20 people have died.

"Generally the period of infection ends during the last week of February and the first week of March, but this year there was an atypical situation where the transmission period was prolonged until April," Mexico's Ministry of Health said in a statement."
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE53M63F20090424?sp=true

Are you implying that avian flu is coming out of Mexico? Please then check the link for World Health Organization they show differently.
http://www.who.int/en/

"Avian influenza - situation in Egypt - update 13"

"23 April 2009 -- The Ministry of Health of Egypt has reported a new confirmed human case of avian influenza . The case is a 4 year old male from Akhmim District, Sohag Governorate. His symptoms began on 18 April and he was hospitalized at Sohag Fever Hospital on 18 April where he was started on oseltamivir. He is in a stable condition.
Infection with H5N1 avian influenza was confirmed by the Egyptian Central Public Health Laboratory on 21 April and subsequently confirmed by the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 (NAMRU-3).
Investigations into the source of his infection indicate a history of close contact with dead and sick poultry prior to becoming ill.
Of the 67 cases confirmed to date in Egypt, 23 have been fatal."
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_23a/en/index.html

They also provided a map.
http://gamapserver.who.int/mapLibrary/app/searchResults.aspx

I am not saying that Mexico does not have diseases or illnesses totally contained within their own borders but to try and claim a "new swine flue from mexico" in my opinion might be a bit early.

ICE 'em

Great, one more negative thing illegals bring with them.

GreasyTony

LOL! do you have any sources for us? or are you making this up like Lou Dobbs likes to do? What next? blame them for the iraq war?...LMFAO!!!!!!!

http://www.alternet.org/rights/54185/
Lou Dobbs Persists in Promoting Lies about Immigrant Leprosy Cases

http://www.adl.org/civil_rights/anti_immigrant/default.asp
Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream

A closer look at the public record reveals that some of these supposedly mainstream organizations have disturbing links to, or relationships with, extremists in the anti-immigration movement. Often identified in the media or their mission statements as â€œanti-illegal immigration advocacy groups,â€ they attempt to distort the debate over immigration by fomenting fear and spreading unfounded propaganda through the use of several key tactics:

Describing immigrants as â€œthird world invaders,â€ who come to America to destroy our heritage, â€œcolonizeâ€ the country and attack our â€œway of life.â€ This charge is used against Latinos, Asians and other people of color.

Using terminology that describes immigrants as part of â€œhordesâ€ that â€œswarmâ€ over the border. This dehumanizing language has become common.

Portraying immigrants as carriers of diseases like leprosy, tuberculosis, Chagas disease (a potentially fatal parasitic disease), dengue fever, polio, malaria.

Depicting immigrants as criminals, murderers, rapists, terrorists, and a danger to children and families.

Propagating conspiracy theories about an alleged secret â€œreconquistaâ€ plot by Mexican immigrants to create a â€œgreater Mexicoâ€ by seizing seven states in the American Southwest that once belonged to Mexico.

Blaming immigrants for eroding American culture, institutions and quality of life and impacting our environment and natural resources.

delhiwalah.com forms, paper work

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Sure who needs to do health screens if lettuce is rumored to reach $ 10.00 a head and tomatoes reaching $ 20.00 a pound

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