Call this recent Flu whatever you want; Mexican flu 2009, or H1N1 virus it is a spreading illness

It does not matter how you call the epidemic; Mexican flu, or H1N1 virus; it will not affect what harm this disease will have on the human population.

In keeping with the normal method the world has been using we will call this new virus the Mexican flu because in the long term these flu outbreaks have taken on a locality name such as Spanish Flu, Asian Flu, Hong Kong flu etc.

Due to the world wide spread of the Mexican flu and fatalities in 2 nations in the same region, the World Health Organization raised the phase alert to pandemic level five. This level indicates that this organization believes the growth of the Mexican flu to infect the world is imminent.

For your safety you should read the following W.H.O. Checklist:
World Health Organization (W.H.O.)
Department of Communicable Disease
Surveillance and Response
Global Influenza Programme
WHO checklist for influenza pandemic preparedness planning.  Starts out with “Some time in the future.”  (Note: that some time is now!)

In a Presidential News Conference about the Mexican Flu, April 29, the president is asked “if the we should close the border?”  President Obama says, “Wash your hands, take precautions but because this is a new strain we have to be cautious, but not to panic.”  He does not think we should close the border.

An agent who was on the security advance team for President Obama’s recent trip to Mexico is believed of having become infected the Mexican flu and he passed it on to his family in Anne Arundel County, MD.  The agent is on the staff of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who traveled with Obama to Mexico on April 16. He appears to have transmitted the virus to his wife, son and nephew, press secretary Robert Gibbs said.

Just the talk about and inability to agree on how to properly call the pandemic of the Mexican flu 2009 shows that even this little detail will cause controversy in the world today.  The worst of the Mexican flu of 2009 is still before us.  We hope that the governments of the world get their acts together and concentrate on what is important, saving human lives.