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...Geoffrey Lipman, assistant secretary-general of the United Nations World Tourism Organization, has a less inflammatory take. "We know from the past that restrictions don't actually serve to hold back the spread of this kind of virus," he says. "It's already out there around the world in different places...
...Wednesday that affected schools "should strongly consider temporarily closing so that we can be as safe as possible," prompting the closure of schools with confirmed cases - involving some 50,000 students - in several states. At his news conference on Wednesday night, Obama also said that "every American should know that their entire government is taking the utmost precautions and preparations." (See five things you need to know about swine...
...biostatisticians like Longini, who found that even the strictest limits on air travel would only slow the start of a flu pandemic, not stop its spread. But, again, while that strategy may benefit countries that have not yet been infected with swine flu, there's still no way to know when it would be safe to lift those restrictions. "There's no question that air travel spreads the flu," says Mandl, a physician and researcher at the informatics program at Children's Hospital Boston and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. "But the impact of limiting flights at this...
While some measures may turn out to have been extreme, we have contingency plans for a reason. We still don't know how long this will last or how bad it will get. With any luck, this outbreak will let us know where our defenses need strengthening--without forcing us to rely on them...
...going to empower them because now they know they can reach whatever potential they want. Young girls in Liberia now can speak about wanting to be a minister or a President or a leader. I hope that motivation will just spread...