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...global health decisions have created quite as much commotion as that on April 29, when the World Health Organization (WHO), responding to the escalating spread of the H1N1 flu, raised its pandemic alert level for the first time to phase 5, meaning that a full pandemic was considered imminent. As of May 11, the WHO has reported more than 4,600 cases in 30 countries - including 2,600 cases in nearly every state in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - and the threat level remains at phase...
...news closely, that’s for sure.” Of the populations surveyed, parents with children under 18 years old in school remain the most concerned. Half the parents reported not receiving any information from the schools regarding the steps they are taking to reduce the possible spread of the flu. According to Blendon, the survey aimed to gather information on how people respond to crisis so that public officials can be more effective. Knowing that nearly half of parents with young children in school are still concerned, school officials could relay more information about their responses...
...folks at Google think that's too long. Google Flu Trends claims it can pick up signs of health troubles up to two weeks ahead of official health reports, giving communities precious time to protect themselves and hopefully contain the spread of an infectious disease like influenza. Another surveillance company, Veratect, based in Kirkland, Wash., says it picked up the first signs of H1N1 in La Gloria, in Veracruz state, Mexico, as early as April 6, when it received reports of a "strange" respiratory illness there - some 18 days before the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
Where Google Flu Trends may prove more useful, however, is in the tracking of an epidemic once it is under way. If the current H1N1 outbreak were to worsen and start to spread more quickly, then Google's system may be able to keep pace with it and alert health officials immediately as the problem grows. "If the disease starts spreading in a particular area, for example, and affects thousands of people, then we hope that our system would detect that within 24 hours," says Ginsberg. The idea would be to catch the rise in cases before too many people...
...commercial flights, calling the actions discriminatory. In a televised speech, Calderon urged nations that have cut off plane routes to Mexico - including Argentina, Colombia and Cuba - to reconsider. "I ask all the nations that they stop taking actions that only hurt Mexico and don't contribute to stopping the spread of the disease," he said. "Mexico will fight this virus better in collaboration with the rest of the world." Officials in those countries claimed, however, that they don't have huge stockpiles of antiviral drugs and need to take any actions necessary to save their citizens' lives. The United Nations...