On Sunday, the U.S. declared the recent swine flu outbreak a "public health emergency." At least 20, and perhaps as many as 81 deaths in Mexico have been attributed to this new strain of flu, which is actually a combination of avian, human, and swine flu.Twenty swine flu cases have been confirmed in the U.S., but not deaths. Its unclear, even to health officials, why the cases in the U.S. have been milder.
You can track the spread of the swine flu as well as receive updates in a number of ways. First, Google Maps user Niman, whose profile says simply "Biomedical Research, Pittsburgh, PA, USA", has created this Google My Map of the current Swine Flu outbreak (below).
View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map
In addition, Healthmap has a map of global disease outbreaks, pulling news from different sources to generate the map. Tip: the map by default doesn't just show flu outbreaks; to change the setting go into the "Diseases, last 30 days" section of the LH sidebar and check only influenza.
Additionally, the CDC and WHO are also obvious places to look for outbreak information.
Finally, you can also set up news alerts via Google or Yahoo!. Or you can just roll CNN or MSNBC's sites.
At any rate, right now, everyone wants to hear the latest on swine flu news.
1 comments:
thanks for sharing this map to us,
there is a Hugh possibility to treat swine flu by herbal treatment.
The government gave free swine flu shots, becaue if you didn't get the series of two you were considered UNAmerican and a damn Communist
I had one. When people began dying from the vaccine, news reports become very quiet (as I recall). Turned out there was nothing to fear.
People with respiratory illness or fever should stay home from work or school to avoid spreading infections, including influenza, to others in the community
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