Obama on Swine Flu | A Reason for Concern but not yet “A Cause for Alarm”
Posted April 27, 2009 – 1:35 pm in: 'pandemic potential', mexico outbreak, swine fluAfter a confirmed forty cases of swine flu in US, the Obama administration said today that it was going to respond as if the outbreak was developing into a full pandemic, but that it was not yet a cause for real alarm. Officials urged against travel to Mexico as that was where the virus began. President Barack Obama urged calm, saying there was reason for concern but not yet “a cause for alarm.”
Administration officials said they were already waging a vigorous campaign of prevention, unsure of the outbreak’s severity or where it would show up next.
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