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...executive of discount airline RyanAir, drew criticism on Tuesday for publicly suggesting that only the world's poorest people will succumb to swine flu, despite the fact that two middle-class Scottish newlyweds have been isolated in a hospital for several days after having tested positive for the H1N1 virus. "It is a tragedy only for people living in slums in Asia or Mexico. But will the honeymoon couple from Edinburgh die? No. A couple of Strepsils will do the job," he said, suggesting that all they have to do is suck on the popular candy-flavored, over-the-counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Travel or Not to Travel? A Swine Flu Dilemma | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Travel or Not to Travel? A Swine Flu Dilemma | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...visit old friends because she worries the airline will cancel her flight. "If I book a ticket and end up losing it because of travel restrictions, I may not get my money back," she says. "Maybe I'll go see somebody in Amsterdam instead." Apparently not even a deadly virus can kill the travel bug in some folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Travel or Not to Travel? A Swine Flu Dilemma | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Border Controls Can't Keep Out the Flu Virus | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...hardest hit countries are still Mexico and the U.S., where the virus is spreading easily from person to person - the main reason behind the WHO's decision to raise the pandemic alert from phase 4 to 5. In the U.S. 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Border Controls Can't Keep Out the Flu Virus | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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