Nearly one-third of all of the confirmed cases of the influenza virus in the U.S. are in the four Southwestern states that border Mexico.
Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas have reported 2,070 cases representing 32 percent of the 6,552 confirmed cases in the U.S.
The swine flu, originally found in Mexico City, has now appeared across the United States. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed 900 cases in Texas, 553 in California, 520 in Arizona and 97 reported in New Mexico. Illinois at 877 and Wisconsin reporting 766 cases are also showing high numbers.
To date, the virulent strain has been responsible for the deaths of nine Americans. Two Arizonans have died from the disease. Arizona is indicated as a state where the virus is considered to be “widespread.”
The flu has gone by various names, first known as the Mexican flu, then Swine flu and now the sure not to offend, “H1N1.”
Check the updated numbers at the CDC website here. Scroll down to see the confirmed cases in individual states.
Ah, but don’t these stats from the CDC fly in face of all of the misinformation we are being fed by Janet Napolitano and the Obamites? The disease was just incidentally found throughout Mexico, but it’s certainly not Mexican. It springs from the land of H1N1, wherever that might be.
The prep school fellows in New York had been in Mexico on Spring break just prior to contracting the infection, but that’s merely coincidental, don’tcha know?
Ditto the children in Arizona and Texas who brought the influenza back to their schoolmates. In both cases the children had been in Mexico visiting with family south of the border and came home infected.
Australia is ramping up its response to the influenza epidemic — without apology:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090523/wl_afp/healthfluworld_20090523123758
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