Pig Flu

As the spread of the deadly Swine Flu virus speeds up in Mexico and starts entering other countries such as the United States, New Zealand, Canada, and Israel, countries are taking necessary precautions to prevent the virus from reaching a pandemic in their own countries.  This measures include quarantining some sick travelers from Countries known to have the pig flu virus.  The United States Homeland Security has released a quarter of its 50 million antiviral medicatons to be delivered to the cities and towns as a preemptive measure to combat the sperad of the flu infections.  Source: AP

BBC video report about the swine pig flu and how it is creating a horrible situation in Mexico, where respiration masks have been sold out, and the government is planning to delivery mass vaccinations with human influenza vaccines. It is not clear if the vaccine for the human flu virus will be effective against this new strain of pig virus.