Thursday, May 7, 2009

Swine Flu is Here!

We heard on the news early this week the first case of swine flu hit Guate!
To be honest we are all kind of bewildered because being so close to Mexico we hear about the first case until now, when the disease has spread all over the world!
Anyway they say the 11 year old girl who brought it from Mexico is already in her home feeling well and so is her family. More cases are about to be confirmed on Saturday, since the samples have to be sent to Atlanta.
As I was talking today with my school mates, if we have only ONE confirmed case of the A H1N1 virus... why did the alarm go from zero to ORANGE?! and then to a Calamity State along with some gossiping about everything being shot down? That is causing people to be over worried and the masks are already sold out! Anyhow, I haven't seen anyone wearing them to go anywhere.
It seems like there are a lot of other issues in this country to be worried about...
I will be praying and praying that this thing won't explode and that they don't find any more cases, and that they are not hiding any info from us, so we can be prepared.

If the flu spreads here... it could be really really bad...
People doesn't seem to understand well what the illness is about, they said in the newspapers that a lot of people stopped eating anything comming from pigs so they would not be infected??!
And some others just don't trust the system and rather die in their homes than send their relatives to a hospital or whatever. Sad huh?

Hope this stops very soon and that they find a vaccine soon.



1 comment:

Misty McKibben-Sanders said...

EVA! Glad to hear from you....shoot away at the email! It is cp.melvin@insightbb.com!!
xoxoxoxo
Misty