World battles swine flu as death toll rises

The police are guarding the hospital entrance. No one knows how to treat it properly yet. the doctors at mexico were mystified. Everyone has their masks on. Patients keep flowing into hospitals all day long. People are sick and are dying. At a school in New York, the school was closed due to 28 confirmed cases of the swine flu. So far, a total of approximately 90 cases of outbreaks were confirmed around the world. 50 in the states, 6 in Canada, 3 in New Zealand, 2 each in spain and the UK, and 1 in Israel. Experts suspect that there are 11 more other countries that are infected. In response to the problem, the World Health Organiztion raised its alert level to 4 on the six-level-scale. This shows that the UN Agency thinks that the virus can be spread human-to-human.

Over the last 2 weeks, out of nearly two thousand that came to a hospital in Mexico, 150 died. Patients are kept clustered in rooms. There is also a problem trying to figure out if someone actually needs treatment or not. Hospital workers are complaining because they were not given medicine or masks. All school in Mexico have closed until at least the sixth of May. Mexico also ran out of medicine and sanitary masks, which is growing to be a huge problem. Airport quarantine systems have become more strict than before. China and Russia have cut off pork imports coming in from the US and Mexico. Japan and Indonesia are using thermographic censors to check the temperatures of the passengers arriving from Mexico. The Phillipines Health Department even urged people not to kiss in public.

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Although not mentioned in this paper, South Korea is influenced by the disease. The South Korean government has confirmed a suspected case of the swine disease. Pork prices have falled drastically during the past days. People are frightened. The Agriculture and Forestry Ministry stated that the government and the Korea Swine Association are coming up with new standard procedures to check for possible infections and devising actions to be taken if a sick animal is discovered. They are also limiting pork imports from the US and Mexico. This shows that the disease is highly contagious because it has reached people living on the other side of the Earth. It is a problem that should not be taken lightly.