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sboone,
It isn't only sping breakers & tourists that bring it back. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif
If the pig flu is reaching deadly pandemic proportions over there, then assuredly there are illegals that don't proceed through ANY type of visual or customs screening before they enter our country ILLEGALLY, then they ARE bringing it to our door.
Barry
Influenza is a virus. A very contagious virus. The life expectancy outside a host is 10-14 days. You can shut down all illegal immigration by 100%, and we would not be safe from infection. Legal cross border traffic is enough to spread the virus. Throw in a 48 hour incubation to symptoms, and there is no border capable of stopping it.
By the way, as of now, the swine flu is reaching epidemic proportions. pandemic refers to cross border and continent. It sounds much more dramatic, and is a favorite of the media.
The life cycle of virus, its ability to mutate,the proximity of the world population today, along with the sheer numbers make the probabilty of an infectous epidemic/pandemic a growing reality. Reminds me of a quote from my domestic disease professor, " humans think they are at the top of the food chain.....tell that to the ebolla or influenza virus "
Maintain
P.S. Why is Napolitano (DHS) handling this instead of the HHS?