Sebastian Montini dijo [Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:13:29AM -0300]: > today i was updating info in penta (flight numbers,etc) and a friend > ask me about that.... how serious is the situation regarding swine flu > in .es ?? > are they planning to close the borders or take any action against > people traveling from America? > it's kind of a delicate matter, AFAIK there's no vaccine yet...so? > i would love to hear some of your thoughts since i'm having some > trouble to convincing my girlfriend that everything is ok.
Greetings from the eye of the hurricane! As of today, by far most of the infections have been found in Mexico (~2000 cases, many of which have not yet been tipified to this specific virus strain, but are probable, followed by the USA with ~90 cases). In Mexico we have had ~150 deaths, and only one in the USA (and none in other countries). However, the virus is spreading fast. In Spain there are over 10 cases (all of the confirmed ones in Catalunya, Eastern Spain - DebConf will take place next to the Western border). However, don't take those numbers for granted as anything showing what is yet to come. Today, the World Health Organization heightened the pandemic alert to 5 (on the 1-6 scale): There are human to human infections in more than one country, and a pandemic is imminent. So, even though (so far) two countries have suspended all their direct flights to Mexico (Cuba and Argentina), that is unlikely to have any real effect - There are confirmed cases (quoting from memory) in the UK, Austria, France, Spain, Austraila, New Zealand, Israel... And unconfirmed cases in many more countries [1]. What will happen over two months from today? Imposible to forsee. Ruling out that we will all be dead, however, I don't think there will be much point in not planning a trip to Spain - By then, this will very probably have become a pandemia. However, on the bright side, in the countries getting new cases today, better awareness is reached fast - and that's probably the reason why only one person outside Mexico has died by now. So... keep it cool. No stinkin' no-fly alert will keep me away from DebConf. Don't let it happen to you! :) [1] http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=32.639375,-110.390625&spn=15.738151,25.488281&z=5 -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
