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...Evans, an epidemiologist with the U.K.'s Faculty of Public Health, the government body that sets public health standards, "If we start seeing countries reporting contractions from person-to-person, then visiting anywhere in the world would be as risky as visiting Mexico." And despite the high number of swine flu cases reported in Mexico - over 2,000, with more than 150 deaths so far - that number may stabilize or fall, suggesting that Mexico "could be over the worst of its problems, whereas other countries have the worst to come...
...countries continue to take precautions. Officials at Tokyo's Narita International Airport have installed a device at the arrival gate for flights from Mexico to measure the temperature of disembarking passengers, and passengers flying into the Philippines who report fevers have been quarantined in government hospitals. (Read "Battling Swine Flu: The Lessons from SARS...
...Read "Why Is Swine Flu Deadlier in Mexico...
...World Health Organization (WHO) raised the pandemic alert level on Wednesday evening to phase 5, signaling that the first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years was imminent. That announcement came on a day when the H1N1 swine flu virus continued to spread worldwide, with new cases confirmed in Austria, Germany, Britain, New Zealand and Israel, bringing the global caseload...
...there are now more than 90 confirmed cases in 10 states, with the first fatality reported on Wednesday morning - a 22-month-old Mexican boy who died in Texas. In Mexico more than 150 people have died of what is suspected to be swine flu, with more than 2,400 suspected infections - though only seven deaths and 26 cases have been confirmed as swine flu in a lab. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...