Cinco De Swine Flu; Another Death In Texas

Texas has suffered from its second death from Swine Flu as the countries count moves up to 29 and some are scared the number will continue rising. One of the deaths was of a pregnant teacher from Mercedes indepandent School District, which is near the Mexico border. The school annouced its closing shortly after her death. She had delivered a healthy baby while being hospitalized though.

The Texas woman, the second confirmed person to die with swine flu in the U.S., lived not far from the Mexico border and had chronic medical conditions, as did the Mexico City toddler who died of swine flu last week during a visit to Houston, Texas, health officials said.

On the subject of Mexico, it is now annoucing the reopening of the country. Last week the coutry shut down, canceling all flights and exempting itself from cruise ship stops. This was an act to shut down the spread of the virus, but now it is obvious that Mexico is no longer the only country with the problem. So Mexico will be resuming as normal aside from their usual celebrations of Cinco De Mayo.

With 942 people sickened in Mexico at last count, public celebrations of Cinco de Mayo were banned, and politicians' homage to the soldiers who fought off the French 147 years ago were subdued.

For the first time in decades Mexico is cancelling their celebration to resist the spread of Swine Flu in a populated area. Though other cities such as Denver, Chicago, and Los Angeles plan to continue with their celebrations, there is still a great deal of concern for the spread of the virus.

Swine flu has now sickened more than 1,700 people in 21 countries, including more than 600 in the United States. The World Health Organization said it was shipping 2.4 million treatments of antiflu drugs to 72 countries "most in need," and France sent 100,000 doses of antiflu drugs worth $1.7 million to Mexico.

Until then we aare left still looking for the vaccination against Swine Flu and scrubbing down our schools and homes. Maybe this is what we need to bind together countries from all over the world to help find the antivirus. Swine Flu could possibly bring on world peace, provided the human race doesnt die out because of it.