Sunday, May 03, 2009

Looks Like We Need to Keep Our Guard Up: Swine Flu Isn't As Dangerous as First Believed, But It's Hitting Close to Home

A friend of mine just posted that her kid's school over in Grand Rapids is closed due to a student there getting a "probable" case of swine flu.

That's a litle too close for comfort.

Apparently this student has a friend that returned from a visit to Mexico a few weeks ago.

I'm still uncertain as to whether we should let this thing run it's course, or to do whatever we need to in order to stop it now. It seems there is a danger that this thing could mutate into something that resembles the 1918 influenza, which could cause it to go out of control.

I think we need to stay the course for the time being. If it mutates, we could be in deep trouble. Getting things completely back to normal will have to wait for a while.

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