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Good Post Devildog!

EXCELLENT POST.

The article posted was printed yesterday. The teacher died AFTER the article was written.

How have we stopped it from spreading so rapidly? WASHINGTON (AFP) – The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States jumped Tuesday to 403 from 286 the previous day, health officials said, warning that they expected the disease to continue to spread. Infections with the (A)H1N1 virus were also reported in two more states, Georgia and Maine, which now have one case each, bringing the number of states with confirmed cases to 38. In Illinois, the number of confirmed infections rose more than tenfold in the space of 24 hours, climbing from eight cases on Monday to 82. But New York continues to lead the tally, with 90 confirmed cases of H1N1 flu. There are more than 700 probable cases of the flu strain in 44 states, the acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Richard Besser, told what has become a daily news briefing on the outbreak, which was first reported late last month and has its epicenter in Mexico. Thirty-five people have been hospitalized in the United States and the death toll from the virus remains at one -- a Mexican toddler who was visiting relatives in Texas. "We know there will be more cases, those numbers will go up. Unfortunately, we know there will probably be more hospitalizations and deaths," US Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told a news conference held jointly with Besser. Besser said he expected to "continue to see virus transmission in the United States and around the world" and for the outbreak to eventually affect all 50 states. He also predicted that the number of people who are hospitalized or die in the United States because of the virus would rise. But he played down Tuesday's spike in numbers, saying it could be due in part to test kits for the (A)H1N1 virus beginning to reach laboratories across the United States. "As we get these test kits out to state labs and as they get up to speed, some of the backlog that they've had on testing will go away and we'll see a big bump in the number of cases," Besser said. "That doesn't reflect transmission as much as that we're catching up with the testing," Besser added. Nearly two-thirds of infected people in the United States were under 18. Sufferers ranged in age from three months to 81 years old. What government? Read post above...

Nah...I'm not scared. I doubt anybody that have shut down schools are "scared". They are just doing what they think is best for the welfare of the children.

Like talking to a wall .... not worth my time.

Until we can stop it from spreading so rapidly .... why not err on the side of caution?

Yep. Great call, until somebody else gets it. LOL

I would copy and paste, but I can't from The Young Coach. Basically, a teacher died in Harlingen from Swine Flu.

http://theyoungcoach.proboards.com/index.c...amp;thread=3574

http://theyoungcoach.proboards.com/index.c...amp;thread=3571

Just ask.

Just go to yahoo.com and type in Scott Tyner + high school

Wikepedia.com Anybody that is anybody has a biographical page. Even me!