Mexico to Get $205 Million in World Bank Aid to Fight Swine Flu

[BlueJessamine]

Source: Bloomberg

April 26 (Bloomberg) -- The World Bank has agreed to give Mexico $205 million in loans to help fight the swine flu epidemic, Mexico’s Finance Minister Agustin Carstens said.

Of the amount, $25 million will be disbursed immediately, to allow the Mexican government to buy medicine and equipment to detect and fight the virus, which has been linked to as many as 81 deaths in Mexico.

Carstens, speaking at a press conference following the World Bank and International Monetary Fund spring meetings, said while it is too early to estimate the economic impact of the epidemic, it has a “high potential for disruption.”

In the U.S., 20 confirmed cases of swine flu have been linked to the outbreak in Mexico, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The outbreaks in Mexico and the U.S. warrant an urgent assessment of the potential of the virus to spark the first influenza pandemic in 41 years, the World Health Organization said yesterday. The Geneva-based United Nations agency held an emergency meeting and decided that more evidence is needed to determine whether the level of pandemic alert should be increased.


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[Stinger2]

1. Death toll of confirmed, suspected Swine flu cases reaches 103 in Mexico

Death toll of confirmed, suspected Swine flu cases reaches 103 in Mexico

“CONFIRMED SUSPECTED” A confirmed suspected murderer, means someone is Suspect of murder. I had a friend die in 1978 of swine flue, it took 10 days to overcome him with a lung infection….. This is like being almost pregnant, either you have it or not or you have just the flu………… with some that could have waited to long and died of pneumonia from not going to a doctor until they were on the death bed, no oxygen or penicillin.

I am still Subspecies and only a autopsy will tell the story by independed doctors.

[BlueJessamine]

2. All tests in Minnesota for swine flu are negative:

Department of Health officials in Minnesota have tested 12 specimens from patients for swine flu and all have tested negative, according to information released Sunday by the department.

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20090427/NEWS01/104260044/-1/null



Swine flu diagnosed in Elyria


The first confirmed case of swine flu in Ohio has been found in a 9-year-old Ely Elementary School third-grader. The school will be closed all week, Superintendent Paul Rigda said late Sunday night.

http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2009/04/26/news/nh812979.txt

[Wednesdays]

3. $205 mil??

The worst disease-related crisis to hit the continent in years, and after all the bail-out money they cough up roughly the equivalent to one bank executive's Christmas bonus?

Our society's priorities are so fucked up.