Some blurbs from the Veratect twitter entries today

[rainbow4321]

http://twitter.com/Veratect

Germany: Travelers arriving by air must disinfect footwear at airport as a precautionary measure against spread of swine influenza.


Mexico City: All consular services and visa processing suspended at British embassy.


Australia: Queensland health officials remove two women with influenza symptoms from returning Quantas flight from Los Angeles in Brisbane.


US, Arkansas: Residents of Tennessee Valley inundating hospitals for swine influenza testing.

US, Arkansas: Health Officials Believe Swine Influenza Already "Spread Across" State.

Mexico City: Mayor reports seven new fatal, suspected swine influenza cases have been documented in the past several hours. ( this one was listed around 10 am Monday morning, I believe---7 deaths in 7 hours??)


North Carolina: Health officials involuntarily isolate an unspecified number of suspected cases and test for swine influenza.


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Some of the states with suspect cases not listed before today: Colorado, NJ, Arkansas, Idaho

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Yeah it is spreading I also pointed earlier the story

on mandatory involuntary quarantine

Part of it, but if this (when if this is it) it becomes mandatory and generalized, it will require federal troops to enforce

[aquart]

4. I noticed that the Mexican fatality figures are only hospital deaths.

One of the news programs pointed out that Mexico doesn't have enough people to check out possible flu deaths at home.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. That's part of the problem

the system is more than just overwhelmed by now

If things get that bad that fast here, the system will also break down

Of course at a several points of magnitude greater

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. I think The Daily Show tonight

did an excellent job of putting this mass hysteria into perspective.

Don't miss it ............................

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I know facts are confused with mass hysteria

by the way, that site is only reporting HEADLINES from the World Wide Web

At times it takes a little effort to track the actual story

But hey, if facts are mass hysteria, I guess pigs can indeed fly, no pun

Oh and I forgot


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

OBLY APPROPRIATE RESPONSE WHEN IGNORANCE IS AHEM SPEWED NO MATTER WHAT SIDE OF THE POLITICAL AISLE

ANTI INTELLECTUALS ARE ANTI INTELLECTUALS AND INFORMATION

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. Well, if, as you say,

"OBLY APPROPRIATE RESPONSE WHEN IGNORANCE IS AHEM SPEWED NO MATTER WHAT SIDE OF THE POLITICAL AISLE, then I'd add that it's a rozzer that dips a cracker the dropsy in snide, one grunch and the eggplant over there......................

[targetpractice]

5. dupe.. sorry. nt

[targetpractice]

6. An article about Veratect...

Interesting start-up that models itself after the National Weather Servce (but for bio-threats). I've noticed that they are reporting more than just headlines... They also dive deep into discussion boards for first hand accounts...

Using its artificial intelligence and global network of multilingual analysts, Veratect detected the first indications of the influenza outbreak in Mexico at the end of March. As such, it was the first to alert the Emergency Operations Center and Global Disease Detection Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Veratect CEO Bob Hart. It also passed the information on to health officials in Colorado, Nevada and Washington state.
Hart compares Veratect's 24/7 disease tracking system -- which includes 30 professionals in operations centers in Kirkland and Arlington, Virginia -- to a fire lookout.
"(We) allow our customers to react to the first wisps of smoke rather than only being about to respond to a fully involved forest fire," he says.

More... http://www.techflash.com/venture/Veratect_sounds_alarm_on_Swine_flu_outbreak_43742807.html

[Lex]

7. Woah, my state is "involuntarily" isolating people to test for swine flu?

Didn't realize that NC was doing that. Hope there are more details on that soon.