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Sunday, April 26, 2009 | 11:56 a.m.
Beyond the Sun
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidance for infection control and the use of antivirals can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/flu/swine/recommendations.htm
Nevada was not among the states identified today as having cases of the new type of swine flu. But Las Vegas-area doctors are on alert for patients with the flu who traveled in infected areas of Mexico and the United States.
The Southern Nevada Health District posted a notice on its Web site saying: "Southern Nevada clinicians should consider the possibility of swine influenza virus infections in patients presenting with ... respiratory illness who have traveled to or from San Diego County or Imperial County, Calif.; San Antonio, Texas; or Mexico City, Mexico; within the last seven days, or have been in contact with ill persons from these areas in the seven days prior to their onset of illness.''
If swine flu is suspected, clinicians should obtain influenza testing through local commercial or hospital laboratories, the district said.
Federal officials announced today that the new strain of the flu has been found in New York, California, Texas, Kansas and Ohio. The flu has been deadly in some cases in Mexico, but so far not in the United States.
U.S. officials stressed that the flu has nothing to do with eating pork and that pork is safe to eat. They said that while swine flu can be transmitted from pigs to humans, the new outbreak appears to be spreading by people-to-people contact.
"The lack of known exposure to pigs in the two cases increases the possibility that human-to-human transmission of this new influenza virus has occurred,'' the CDC reported in two of the California cases.
The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention offered these tips people can take to stay healthy:
--Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
--Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.
--Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.
--Avoid close contact with sick people. Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people.
--If you get sick, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them
With all the visitors to these Casino's I cannot think of a place that will be more likely hit than Las Vegas.
Good thing Vegas does not have a Mexican problem..if you are having trouble reading this, press #2.
And do you really believe our political leaders are going to announce we have cases of "swine" flu? Please....legionnaires never, bed bugs not here, swine flu.....?
What happens here stays here!
The reason their are no reported cases is because Nevada is not testing for the virus - at least not as of today. According to Qwest Diagnotics, they didn't have a Protocal to Test for the Swine Virus.
Qwest Diagnotics doesn't do testing for anything and never have. That entity doesn't even exist. But let me make a kwik kall two find owt.
We interrupt our regular programming to bring you this breaking news:
Mike Doria on Fox 5 just reported there is LITTLE CHANCE that swine flu will find it's way to Las Vegas. It apparently will stay in Mexico & California, according to Doria.
There you have it.
I DID NOT make this up.
Narcissa you are really racist. just because mexicans happen to have caught the flu does Not mean that they contain the virus. i happen to be mexican and yet here i am speaking perfect english and quess what i have NO virus. And the music you call "clown music" happens to be a style of music in mexico i don't see clowns dancing to that music everyday so get your facts straight. And one more thing you stereotype way too much how dare you suspect that every mexican has a pickup truck. Like i said before i am mexican and yet do i have a pickup truck playing "clown music". No i have a normal truck so take your stereotype ass out of here and if your white why don't you go live in alabama with all your other redneck friends. I'm sorry eveyone else but racism just pisses me off period.