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04-27-2009, 12:25 PM
http://www.upi.com/news/issueoftheday/2009/04/27/US-not-ready-if-swine-flu-goes-pandemic/UPI-88031240856351/
Androulla Vassiliou, health commissioner for the 27-nation European Union, has advised the half a billion inhabitants of the EU nations to avoid visiting the United States as well as Mexico if they can. Dr. Richard Besser, acting head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, criticized Vassiliou's statement as being alarmist and unnecessary. However, a U.S. State Department official said Monday the government would issue a travel advisory telling Americans to avoid traveling to Mexico unless it was absolutely essential.
No deaths have been reported in the United States so far, but CDC experts have warned that at least a few fatalities appear likely.
The Obama administration has been very cautious in its response to the crisis. President Barack Obama told the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday that there was "no cause for alarm."
On Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told those attending a White House briefing she was not requiring passengers flying into the United States on airliners from Mexico to be tested for swine flu. The 193-nation World Health Organization estimates that half a million people are traveling on civilian airliners around the world at any time.
This is very peculiar.
Androulla Vassiliou, health commissioner for the 27-nation European Union, has advised the half a billion inhabitants of the EU nations to avoid visiting the United States as well as Mexico if they can. Dr. Richard Besser, acting head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, criticized Vassiliou's statement as being alarmist and unnecessary. However, a U.S. State Department official said Monday the government would issue a travel advisory telling Americans to avoid traveling to Mexico unless it was absolutely essential.
No deaths have been reported in the United States so far, but CDC experts have warned that at least a few fatalities appear likely.
The Obama administration has been very cautious in its response to the crisis. President Barack Obama told the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday that there was "no cause for alarm."
On Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told those attending a White House briefing she was not requiring passengers flying into the United States on airliners from Mexico to be tested for swine flu. The 193-nation World Health Organization estimates that half a million people are traveling on civilian airliners around the world at any time.
This is very peculiar.