Formerly known as the “Swine Flu”, this virus has reached Pandemic Level 6, which means that WHO has found traces of this disease all across the globe. Apparently, it is everywhere. There has been one case in Tennessee that I am aware of, and that was in Belle Meade.
I’m afraid. I’m scared someone at my school is going to get infected, be hospitalized or die, and a bunch of people could catch it. Me being included in that “bunch of people”. I just find it terrible that was seems like a common flu can kill so many people. I don’t even know the death toll in Mexico yet, although I’ve heard it has gone up significantly. I’m not even sure how many people have been infected/killed by this virus.
I read on Yahoo! News about this, and I quote:
WHO raised the pandemic flu alert to phase 5 on Wednesday, one step away from the highest level indicating a global outbreak. WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said Thursday there were no indications in the past day that would prompt the U.N. body to raise the alert further.
To move from pandemic alert level 5 to level 6 means that WHO believes there is evidence of big outbreaks in at least two world regions and a pandemic is under way.
Fukuda said the jump in confirmed cases from Mexico was probably the result of scientists working their way through a backlog of untested samples from suspected cases.
“They are going through several thousands of laboratory specimens right now,” he said.
WHO has started distributing its stockpile of 2 million courses of the antiviral drug Tamiflu to regional offices, which will decide where to send them next.
How many people are going to killed by this virus? Can they get the cure distributed before thousands, possibly millions, are dead?
I really hope this plague steers clear of Tennessee. I doubt it will, but hopefully we won’t be seriously affected. It’s not likely; I’m just rambling on with empty thoughts.
I’m gonna end this post rather abruptly for a couple of reasons. I can’t come up with anything else to say, and I think my main intentions have been posted.
-Supermousey
This is the kind of post that makes me swell up with pride, Crocket.