A school in Rockville, Maryland has been closed due to a suspected swine flu case that appears to have been acquired in the community.
“In all the other cases, the patient had some link to a person who had recently traveled to Mexico, where the disease seems to have begun. But in this case, officials said, neither the student nor his immediate family had traveled recently, which makes it more worrisome…”
The number of possible swine flu cases at the Harvard Dental School has risen to 9.
8 students at Amherst College have been isolated due to possible infection.
A man in the UK has been confirmed as the first person to have contracted the virus without visiting Mexico.
Around 300 people staying at a hotel in Hong Kong have been quarantined after a guest was confirmed to have the swine flu.
The CDC says it’s “good news” that this current strain lacks the genes of the 1918 virus that was so deadly, but the fact that “the new virus is a very unusual four-way combination of human genes and genes from swine viruses found in North America, Asia and Europe” does not make me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
People are still wearing those ridiculous masks around as if they help. They only really help if you’re sick in not spreading around all the germs that come out of your mouth.
Tonight seems like a good night for zombie movies.
Plague Girl 