Swine Flu: Obama Shook Hands With Mexican Who Died The Next Day
April 25 (Bloomberg) — Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared an emergency in his country’s swine flu outbreak, giving him powers to order quarantines and suspend public events.
Authorities have canceled school at all levels in Mexico City and the state of Mexico until further notice, and the government has shut most public and government activities in the area. The emergency decree, published today in the state gazette, gives the president authority to take more action.
“The federal government under my charge will not hesitate a moment to take all, all the measures necessary to respond with efficiency and opportunity to this respiratory epidemic,” Calderon said today during a speech to inaugurate a hospital in the southern state of Oaxaca.
At least 20 deaths in Mexico from the disease are confirmed, Health Minister Jose Cordova said yesterday. The strain is a variant of H1N1 swine influenza that has also sickened at least eight people in California and Texas. As many as 68 deaths may be attributed to the virus in Mexico, and about 1,000 people in the Mexico City area are showing symptoms of the illness, Cordoba said.
Obama’s Visit
The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.
The Mexican government is distributing breathing masks to curtail the disease’s spread. There is no vaccine against the new strain of swine flu, health authorities said.
Museums, theaters and other venues in the Mexico City area, where large crowds gather, have shut down voluntarily and concerts and other events canceled to help contain the disease. Two professional soccer games will be played tomorrow in different Mexico City stadiums without any fans, El Universal newspaper reported. Catholic masses will be held, the newspaper said, although church officials urged worshipers to wear breath masks and to avoid contact.
Schools will likely remain closed next week, Calderon said in the Oaxaca speech. The decree allows Calderon to regulate transportation, enter any home or building for inspection, order quarantines and assign any task to all federal, state and local authorities as well as health professionals to combat the disease.
“The health of Mexicans is a cause that we’re defending with unity and responsibility,” Calderon said. “I know that although it’s a grave problem, a serious problem, we’re going to overcome it.”
Normal Airport Operations
Mexico City’s international airport, which handles about 70,000 passengers each day, is operating normally, said Victor Mejia, a spokesman. Passengers are given a questionnaire asking if they have flu symptoms and recommending they cancel their trip and see a doctor if they do. The measures are voluntary, Mejia said, and no case of swine flu in airport passengers, workers or visitors has been confirmed.
Authorities throughout Central America have issued alerts to prevent the outbreak from spreading. Guatemala ordered tighter control yesterday of its northern border with Mexico, according to EFE. Gerberth Morales, who’s heading the Guatemala government’s response, said no cases of swine flu have been reported in his country, the Spanish news agency reported.
Brazil is intensifying vigilance in ports, airports and borders to check travelers’ health, luggage, aircrafts and ships in a preventive action against the outbreak in Mexico, the Agency for Sanitary Vigilance said on its Web site.
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Divine Fate?
Well he walks on water after all.
germ warfare.
Imagine if it was Bush that visited Mexico the headlines would have read “President Bush causes Swine Flu Pandemic in Mexico after recent visit!”
Illegal aliens could be throwing vials of shit at us in every city in the US and at the border and they still won’t close the border! BHO and his administration are absolutely fucking clueless!
Obama could be the ‘Typhoid Mary’ of the Swine Flu virus.
Pestilence, famine, plagues, fire and brimstone, Obama…sounds like the anti-Christ to me.
Read on another site that Hal Turner is claiming this outbreak is related to a missing U.S. Army bioweapon. Of course, isn’t he the one who also started the China and eminent domain theory?
you mean that neonazi nutbag? lol
The Mexican government can come into their homes and quarantine them (if this flu is as deadly as they say, hell yes), but the airports are still open, and all the passengers have to do is fill out a questionnaire? If I had an itchy throat and was panicky, would I lie to get out of that hellhole? I don’t know.
Has anyone seen Obama lately? Does he look healthy?
well it makes sense if you shake hands with the Angel of Death on should expect to die.
lmao
Better hunker down lads & lass’s this one is going to get ugly. We’ve been overdue for about ten yrs now….. its already too late…. with modern transport this bug is global already just hasnt popped on the radar for other countries yet. I highly reccomend restricting your travel to a minimum and protecting yourself at all times. By tuesday 10 states plus will be reporting outbreaks.
You got that right Troy - and it will be watched very closely by those who wish to spread an even more lethal disease once they figure out how to deploy it.
obama needs to apologize to America for taking his swine ass all over the world apologizing for America, for shaking hands with terrorists, marxist and all our enemies, for closing down GITMO, for giving American dollars to aid in foreign abortions including Mexico, for all his rotten policies he’s enstated since in office, for throwing Conservatives/”right wing extremists”, our troops and veterans, America and Israel under the bus, and for his abortion stance including leaving a baby to die. May the judgment of God fall on him and his. And God will keep all us good people safe!
Wanda Fay, You said it perfect,Amen
sigh …. so close and yet so far…
When will the King of Saudi, Hugo Chavez, and the rest of Obama’s buddies drop dead of swine flu?
After all, he shook hands with them too didn’t he?
Oh, I forgot, it only kills good people, not the evil bastards that need to die.