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2009 Swine Flu outbreak
In late April, an outbreak of a new strain of H1N1 Influenza, commonly called "swine flu", was detected in Mexico City. The initial spread of the virus appeared to be rapid - that, coupled with several deaths of young, otherwise healthy flu victims raised global awareness and initial alarm. As of today, Mexico has confirmed over 800 infections and 42 deaths resulting from H1N1 - 22 countries worldwide now have reported 1,516 cases of influenza A (H1N1). Recent reports have been more restrained, however, with no apparent evience of a pandemic, milder-than-expected flu symptoms, and a rate of infection only slightly higher than a normal seasonal flu. Collected here are photographs of people in Mexico and around the world dealing with H1N1 or or preparing for possible encounters. (36 photos total)
A Mexican passenger is checked by a doctor at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City, on May 4, 2009. Mexico's toll from the A(H1N1) influenza virus has increased to 22 dead and 568 infected cases, Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said late Sunday, while the World Health Organisation says 20 countries have officially reported 1,003 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infections. (ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images)
Relatives of Juana Toribio, 39, who died last April 28 in Mexico City's Institute of Respiratory Illnesses, pause while preparing meals prior to her funeral services at her home town in Santa Maria Matamoros, Oaxaca state, Mexico. According to her death certificate she died from atypical pneumonia but Mexican health authorities told the Associated Press they believe she died of complications from the swine flu virus. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini) #
Chinese health workers in protective outfits examine passengers onboard an AeroMexico flight AM 98 that landed at Pudong international airport in Shanghai from Mexico Thursday, April 30, 2009. A passenger on the flight who continued on to Hong Kong on China Eastern Airlines flight MU 505 later was diagnosed with swine flu. Chinese authorities suspended flights from Mexico to Shanghai, the only direct flight to the mainland. (AP Photo/EyePress) #
British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell demonstrates how to cover your face while coughing, during a news conference at the BC Centre for Disease Control in Vancouver, British Columbia May 1, 2009. Several more cases of influenza A (H1N1), formerly referred to as swine flu, were confirmed in the province. (REUTERS/Lyle Stafford) #
Workers sewing isolation gowns inside a Medtecs garments plant in Bataan province, north of Manila April 30, 2009. Medtecs, a plant in the Philippines producing face masks and isolation gowns has increased production by three times as demand for protected equipment grows due to swine flu outbreak. (REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco) #
Pig farm owner Nguyen Ngoc Thuc checks an one-day-old pig in his farm in Tan Lap Village in Hanoi, Vietnam, Wednesday, May 6, 2009. According to the owner, his farm makes extra effort to prevent the possible spread of swine flu, for example increasing disinfections, though Vietnam is currently free from the flu. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki) #
A woman walks in a nearly empty building at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, in Mexico City, Monday, May 4, 2009. Mexican officials lowered their flu alert level in the capital on Monday, and plan to allow schools, businesses, museums and libraries to reopen this week. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar) #
Egyptian farmers throw rocks towards police during clashes over an ordered mass slaughter of pigs in al-Mukatam neighbourhood in Cairo on May 3, 2009. Egyptian riot police clashed with stone-throwing pig farmers who were trying to prevent their animals being taken away for slaughter as part of a mass nationwide cull. Between 300 and 400 residents of a slum district of Cairo, where mostly Coptic Christian scrap merchants raise pigs, hurled stones and bottles at police. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images) #
An Egyptian policeman wears a mask as he stands guard in front of a pick up truck full of pigs at the main slaughterhouse in Cairo April 30, 2009. Egypt, hit hard by bird flu, has ordered the slaughter of every pig herd in the country as a precaution against swine flu, a step the United Nations said was a mistake. (REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih) #
Suspected member of the Gulf Cartel Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa, center, is escorted to be presented to the press after his arrest at federal police headquarters in Mexico City, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. He and the police officers escorting him wear face masks as a precaution against swine flu. Gamboa is one of Mexico's 24 most-wanted drug traffickers, according to federal police. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) #
A University of Delaware student who did not want to be identified, rides around the university campus wearing a gas mask to make a statement about how he feels the swine flu is being overblown by the media, Thursday, April 30, 2009 in Newark, Del. Four cases of swine flu at the University of Delaware have been confirmed, state officials said. (AP Photo/The News Journal, Suchat Pederson) #
In this April 28, 2009 photo, Edgar Hernandez, 4, who according to Mexico's Veracruz state authorities survived the swine flu, plays in his garden in La Gloria, Mexico. Hundreds of his neighbors in La Gloria - villagers who live among pig-breeding farms - were suffering from flu-like symptoms, as well. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini) #
More links and information
H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) and You U.S. Centers for Disease Control
Swine Flu - NYTimes.com Topics page
2009 swine flu outbreak - Wikipedia entry
Global cases of Influenza A(H1N1) - World Health Organization
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Great pictures. Thank you. Once again, another disturbing trend catches the media's imagination to influence the masses (baaaa). It's about time people got some perspective. The regular Flu that the media's grown bored with kills 36,000 Americans annually; suddenly 'swine flu' is an issue? Please.
Big Photos of the Big Lie
Would you rather have a 1918 because we didn't do anything about it? Then you guys would hue and cry about how the government didn't help us, blah blah blah. Err on the side of caution, personally.
The face masks look pretty cute when worn over riot gear. :-)
I've never witnessed such a media super-storm (category 5) of sensationalism and inappropriate govt overreaction to anything like this in my entire lifetime.
11 is scary
LOVE #18
29 is so nice
Matt Adcock
www.delsolphotography.com
Mexico Destination Photojournalist (NOT infected by the swine flu)
You're being lied to constantly in many ways and I'm not talking about 9/11 conspiracy status. No one is thinking for themselves.
The people who laugh at swine flu like in the comment above are the same people who 2 weeks ago were planning for the demise of the human race. Ask one of these people why swine flu was dangerous vs not dangerous now. All they understand is the death count. Now you know why nothing gets done, because the public needs bodies.
As of May 1/09, according to the WHO there are 34 confirmed cases of this "epidemic" in Canada (all mild according to public health officials) and no deaths. Not to minimize the potential ANY influenza has for sickness and mortality (there are currently 109 confirmed cases in the USA with 1 death, and 156 confirmed cases in Mexico with 9 deaths), but worldwide there are only 331 cases total. Consider the following information that might put these numbers into perspective. Each year there are approximately 1600 cases of TB in Canada, with 75 deaths. There are 2500 fire-related injuries each year with 300 deaths. There are 160,000 auto-accident injuries each year with 14,000 deaths.
Guys, Spanish Flu was kind of a bummer. I'm just sayin'
BTW *what* exactly is Edgar Hernandez doing with that big stick in #35?
#16 - The kid has no body to bump. So sad.
@22
And not to forget 20.000 "normal" flu victims _every_ year _only_ in Germany.
This swine flu media hype is ridiculous.
The Egyptian officials didn't go crazy; they just thought it would be a more palatable and less overt way to persecute Christians. Since Muslims don't eat pork, it's mostly Christians who raise pigs there. So pigs aren't the only ones suffering -- the herders are losing their livelihoods.
Great first shot! Instant Classic! Thanks Big Picture for supplying a gift for midnight sessions.....
^_^
its really sad about this situation but i agree with # 4
im from monterrey mexico and well its sad that some people dont wear cover masks i do cause well just to prevent anything jajajajaja
thanks for the pics as always their great ....thanks!!!!!!1
Bunch of know-alls...here is why it might pay to take this thing just a little more seriously: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227073.500-swine-flu-can-science-save-us-from-the-second-wave.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
The deaths from the normal influenza mostly affects old and fragile people. Those that are going to die sooner than later (we still can't live forever). This new version affects young and healthy people as well and thus has potential for a much wider outbreak as the target population is much larger. I'm happy that they check airplanes and prevent the flu from spreading. Why would anyone like it when the illness spreads around!?
I rather live with a media hype that I can ignore than dead people which I cannot.
It is true that there are a lot of things worth making a big hype about and lots of people dying. But I wonder how those points come from those that criticize the hype in the first place.
I love the Raiders of the Lost Ark theme in #21. Marvelous, just perfect.
Joe, I also felt it like this.. Looks like typical anti-christianism to me.
At #1. This is not overhypes, there are people dying because of this flu.
For all the haters who say the media over-hyped it: I'll respond that I'm glad they did. We had very little information at first. Mexico didn't react or report initial outbreaks until it could have been far too late. Just because it's looking like we got out of this without a full pandemic doesn't mean we should have ignored possible signs and done everything possible to stop this threat. I'll take the media hype over millions of deaths any day. Get over yourselves. We should be thankful it turned out the way it did not angry at the media for doing what they're supposed to: reporting. Thanks for The Big Pictures for the pictures.
Perspective: The regular flu has killed more than 10,000 people in the U.S. since January, and kills between 250,000 and 500,000 worldwide.
H1N1 flu ("swine flu")which is just a variant (albeit a new one) has killed less than 50 i think.
this is way overhyped
Funny how there was a huge hype over it in the begining and now they dont even breathe word of the swine flu. I cant say they were completley wrong about blowing it up so much. A virus usually does have a three day incubation period and does rapidly change to become stronger and infect more people. Just look at the AIDS virus. However, It will probably be the next outbreak or the one after that that we should be worried about.
There are 16,000 TB cases in the United States, with 644 deaths last year. Where is the media frenzy? After all, tuberculosis is spread through the air when people who have the disease cough, sneeze, or spit, just like this flu.
What a great crisis for the sheeple. Perhaps we can do another 50 million mandatory vaccinations like we did for the swine flu in the 1970's? How many died from that "cure"? How many were permanently paralyzed?
Blah blah blah blah - this is just like all the whining post y2k when the world didnt end. If nothing had been done to help stop the spread of this potentially (albeit not so) world killing disease then I'm sure the same people that are complaining now be be decrying the WHO, the worlds goverments and media for doing to little.
I really like comment no. 3.
# 19 is priceless!
DID YOU KNOW? There are several vaccines that can protect you from outbreaks of panic caused by corporate media. They are called:
1) Your brain.
2) The 'OFF' button on your television.
3) Independent news.
Please use them as often as possible. We will all benefit.
Thank you.
– The Humans
Photo 18 is NOT a baptism, it's a "Primera Comunión".
Best regards.
Photographs of how we react to this event say so much and capture our emotions. We will look back on this historical event, just as we marked the 1918 influenza epidemic. Right now governments are gearing up for the next major sweep of this mutating virus for the winter season with those boxes of tamiflu.
I think it is a shame that so much money is being spent on these drugs and preparing new vaccinations when we don't even know whether they will provide immunity to a new strain of influenza. Homeopathic Pharmacies, such as Helios UK, carry remedies that have worked for influenza symptoms for centuries. Read this historical article by M. Grimes http://www.naturalnews.com/026148.html
#19 is sweet
I think the problem is that the difference between the "ordinary" definition of a pandemic, and what the WHO calls a pandemic. To the WHO, a pandemic a new, widespread infectious agent. Not millions of people dead around the world.
This hype has more to do with politics than anything else. And the reason being it is a taking focus away from the economy and hence all this media frenzy now on this virus. Politicians love it!
This Virus is no where as deadly as the SARS virus as that one was pretty much fatal if you get it, unlike the H1N1 where the survival rate is as good as the common flu. With SARS people and media had every right to panic due to the almost 100% fatality rate. Go figure.
¿29 muertos en una ciudad de 20 millones y ya lo llaman pandemia?Creo que los chicos de la OMS se pasaron esta vez. Mi solidaridad con el pueblo mexicano:una vez más, las autoridades de mi país(Argentina),dan una muestra de su estupidez al prohibir los vuelos desde México.Acá muere por día más gente en accidentes de tánsito y nadie nos prohíbe circular por el resto del mundo
Anybody notice the hiragana table on that gas mask guy's shirt in #33?
At the "persecution complex" Christians who think that Egypt was simply inciting a pogrom against "poor Christian farmers," by ordering the swine slaughter: Last I checked, Egypt is a secular society. Yes, they overreacted. No, it is not some sinister anti-Christian agenda.
Get over yourselves, and quit acting like everyone's out to get you. No one with a brain cares about your misinformed histrionics.
Ever heard about "El Chupacabras"? Sounds just a bit like it.
It is amazing how the media and world governments can produce so much panic out of a lie. LIES, LIES, LIES!!!
We have to keep pur eyes open!!! Something is happening behind all this distractions!!!
To Mitch comment # 34: "Mexico didn't react or report initial outbreaks until it could have been far too late" It is wrong to look for somebody to blame on a matter that concerns all of us as humans, You probably do not know that the H1N1 influenza was detected on american soldiers many years ago and it was in the US where gained the ability to be passed between humans. All over the media you can read how Mexico has been praised for what it did on time to control the H1N1 and how it sacrifized its economy to contain it.
Para Mitch comentario #34: Mexico no reaccion'o hasta que pudo haver sido demasiado tarde". No es correcto buscar culpables en una situaci'on que concierne a toda la humanidad. Probablemnete no sabes que la influenza N1H1 fue detectada en soldados gringos desde hace varios anyos y que mut'o para transmitirse entre humanos en Los Estados Unidos.
En todos los medios puedes leer come se le ha apaludido a M'exico por la manera en que ha controlado al virus y por como ha sacrificado su econom'ia para contenerlx
Hot thing sells!!
Covering AIDS and hepatitis is boring these days, thats why the news channels want a new piece of new action..So Swine flu.
Go save humans from AIDS, "wear the mask some place else".
hahaha! All this so that we don't the think about the economic crisis...
The "regular" flu gets more people infected and killed every year and there's no big fuss about it.
why this ? Because there's no vaccine for H1N1 ? For the "regular" flu it's not that efficient either.
ooh, i am getting dizzy...
To Ech, coment 23:
Thank you for asking! In Photo 35 the kid Edgar is playing by pulling
the wooden pole or stick that is placed half way on long clotheslines so it does hang too low while drying the wet and heavy clothes at the Sun. You can see it in the shadow on the floor behind him.
Para Ech, comentario 23:
Gracias por preguntar! En la foto 35, Edgar esta jugando al jalar el poste que se usa para que no cuelq\guen bajo los tendederos largos donde la ropa mojada y pesada est'a secandose al Sol . Puedes verlo en la sombra al lado izquierdo.
To everybody: Please make your own little contribution and use the proper name for the HUMAN INFLUENZA, Influenza A, or H1N1. I also want to ask the editor to remove the word swine from the title of this article.
The pictures, comments and posts are great as usual. At the office we are all addicted to The Big Picture, your articles always give us iteresting topics to discuss and lets us understand and see the world with different eyes.
Comment 41 " The humans" is best of all!
Thank you!
A picture tells a thousand words! Excellent reporting! I love your paper. I live in Atlanta and always look to the Globe when a major story breaks. Thanks for all you do.
No. 31: Donald Duck, anyone? :)
Great pics, a picture say a thousand words. Maybe this is why the hype. Makes sense to me.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1176743/Donald-Rumsfelds-controversial-links-drug-company-Tamiflu.html
I agree with the Egyptians, they should have killed all the birds too. Can't wait for the "Taliban Flu".
#7 Reminds me of Ghostbusters!
Mexico always receives with open arms to all nationalities. Why this attitude for Mexicans?
Great pics
Laugh at it now. Wait til fall, u will not be laughing.
as always, great job, koko
Aren't people supposed to die?
Exelentes fotos, definitivamente quedaran marcadas en la historia de Mexico, sea una gran mentira o no.
the student on # 33 does understand it's an hype, he can't be serious.
Behind this Kaos, Love exist (Pic. 19)
IN MEXICO AS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHEN ARE AN ACCIDENT,MURDER OR ANYTHING THAT MEAN DEATH THE MEDIA (TV,NEWSPAPPER,RADIO ETC.ETC.)USUALLY LET US KNOW THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE "DEATH PEOPLE" AND SUPORT THE NEWS WITH SOME PICTURES. WHY THE MEDIA DIDN´T SHOW ANY DECEASED?, WHY THEY ARE ONLY NUMBERS? WERE THEY LIVED AND WHAT HAPPEN WITH THEIR RELATIVES? HOW THE AUTHORYTIES SPECT TO BE TRUSTED WITH ONLY NUMBERS?
Realmente con las fotos uno se da cuenta que la paranoia es total!
At least this way everyone got to remember how important is to keep some basic hygene rules, and in doing so we all be more healthy. if there's a more dangerous virus in the future, hopefully we'll be better prepared and less prone to panic.
I should book a holiday to Mexico soon, I bet there's no cleaner place on earth now!
Edgar Hernandez its doinng NOTHING with that stick on #35
The stick is called "Palo de Tendedero" , and the stick supports the cable where people put the clothes to dry with solar heat.
Hmmm...true or not, a pandemic is nothing to sneeze at.
Great photos as always, ty for showing them.
LET'S SEE SOMEONE IN MEXICO HOLLER'S SWINE FLU. ALOT OF MEXICANS LEAVE MEXICO TO OTHER COUNTRIES. AN INVESTIGATION. ALL PIGS ARE IN GOOD HEALTH. A RUMOR STILL RUNNING. A RUMOR THAT IS PANICKING EVERYONE. YOU MAY HAVE A COLD, FLU ON ACCOUNT OF A RUMOR. IS THIS WHAT OUR COUNTRY DOES WHEN A NEIGHBORING COUNTRY HOLLERS 2 WORDS. LETS SEE. 2 YEARS AGO. THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO TAKES ALL PRISONERS AND DUMPS THEM OFF IN OUR COUNTRY, TELLS THEM COME BACK AND YOUR DEAD. THEN THE DRUGS, NOW A RUMOR. NOW THOSE ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE GETTING UP TO $1800 A MONTH, TAKING JOBS FOR LESS=10 TO A HOUSE. THATS $18,000 A MONTH, A RUMOR OF FLU.
I can't believe what a huge media frenzy has been made over a statistically non-existent virus. It just shows how ready people are to jump on the next Panic Bus, and how primed the media is to feed us all we need for the jumping.
The "poor pigs" were headed for the slaughterhouse anyways. Don't write off H1N1 yet. It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.
Here in Holland, we don't speak of a swine-flue anymore cause there is no prove that swines/pigs have got anything to do with it.
That's why we call it the Mexican-flue, cause it supposed to have started there.
IMO a complete overhype, although it's very sad for anyone who knew a victim of this flue.
But not world threatning thing I think
Photo #21 makes me think about how much money is involved in this whole thing.
Finally...I can saw a lot of pics of my country in the big picture and it doesnt feel so well. :(
I live in mexico city and last week, I feel I was in a phantom city...the noise, the traffic...stopped. And there was an imposing presence: the fear of people. And in many circles a certidumbre: the incompetence of autorities.
And I DO BELIEVE that all this influenza history have more to do with a media distractor that whith a real threat. As I've always thought: when they unfold the media machine, doubt better, or at least...question it.
I like the designer face mask in pic #2.
pic #19 is awesome... I saw similar thumbnail photos somewhere in the web few weeks ago, but failed to found the bigger version. Glad that i can find it here.
#43 Homeopathy is placebo and humbug.
Pic 26. This must be religious politics.
A lot of these people don't seem to understand that while the media may have not handled the swine flu news in a professional way, it is hardly been "overblown". This is a real threat. We have no resistance to this virus, the last time a pandemic happened like this half a million people died in the United States alone. Flu viruses mutate rapidly and should a deadlier strain of this appear...or one more virulent (god forbid both), then we would be in a lot of trouble. And people always forget that when good health care works -> nothing happens. The precautions taken by Mexico may have greatly reduced the number of people who have died and it certainly reduced the number of people who contracted this virus.
These are absolutely amazing photos touching heart of millions of people around the world describing what "SWINE FLUE" means to the world.
I was actually present at #25 in the manshiyat nasr riots. 400 people is a weak figure... the whole neighbourhood was up in arms.
Wearing a mask when sick or during an outbreak of flu is common practice in many parts of the world. It's nothing to demonstrate against.
"Over-hyped" - looks like that was the case, thankfully - but the fact that flu can jump between species can't be ignored and pigs and humans biologically have far more in common than birds. Basically we were lucky and should be thankful for the media frenzy to bring attention to this now so that we have a chance to look at what the causes are and to do something about it now before there is a more virulent strain that spreads faster and causes wide spread life loss. A lot of farming practices need to be looked at and not just that the inhumane treatment of the animals is immoral but also that it can and will directly affect our health at some point in the future if something is not done.
T-Shirt in Pic #30: textbook definition of "irony".
One just wonders how much the makers of tamiflu suddenly made profit during these times of economical crisis.
Picture #27 says it all. Oh so dangerous disease . . but remember to let the cameras roll!
Gosh.
#33 is seriously awesome!
This Reminds me of back in Nam'
Hey folks, before you rest on your laurels and go off about hype and conspiracy rubbish, remember that back in 1918 the H1N1 virus initially appeared, did little of note for a few weeks, disappeared for a few months, then came back and killed 5% of the entire planet's population. That would be 300 million people in today's terms - roughly equivalent to the population of the United States.
But oh no, much easier to act like it was just a great big, centrally orchestrated, conspiratorial money-making machine than to actually know what the hell you're talking about, right?
I think that you should still do that and so that ppl shouldn't get the swine flu and more ppl can't die in our econimy
PUZZZ MI COMENTARIO ES DE QUE ES BUENO MANTENER UNA HIGIENE CONSTANTE, SIN SALUDAR DE MANO Y DE BESO....
CUIDENCE!!!!!!!!!!
Number 19 is bgy far my favourite!!
i bet ..there is "UMBRELLA CORPORATION" behind this... :D
where is Alice..??? help us..
It was overhyped to the point that people became "sheeple" and panicked.
My mexican wife, who hasn't been to Mexico in over 4 years, and we don't even know anyone who has been in Mexico in at least 6 months, was positive she had swine flu because the local spanish news implied it. And we live in Chicago!
The local WalMart doubled its prices on antibacterial stuff and cleaned house. Those little travel bottles were selling for $2 as fast as they could put them out.
Yes, you should respect the disease, but not any more than any other disease. It's not a superbug that can bend steel and knock you over. Take normal precautions and you should be fine.
that is just sad
i dont get it, why is the fact that its overhyped a problem? whos it hurtin? well, besides teh egyptian pigs......
#30 Megadeth, cool. And don't forget #7 "The Swinebusters".
Wow the pictures are Insane .
Funny !!! all the pictures are from Mexico or from China when the first person infected was located in San Diego and now The States is the country with more infected people in the world . It´s the same old edited story told from the so call first world that becomes the " truth " .
Great pictures anyway !!! .
I like the happy pig smiling in the Taipei grocery store (#10). Can pigs smile?
I think #34 (the image of the Mexican's boarding the Hong Kong flight) is hysterical!
Pic #18, that is not a baptism ceremony, it is a Catholic First Communion Ceremony. Usually babies and not kids are baptized and when this happen, the priest drop holy water on their heads.
i hate to be insensitive but where are all the comments on how awesome god is... o that only applies to pretty pictures
Isn't yhere any highly effectivbe injections opr medicines developed against this virus?
we the people should have a say in what the government is doing about this the government does not want every one to find out about this and this is not the Mexicans fault this is our fault for not being more careful
The pics were really great. but my doubt as to how exactly an ordinary tissue mask can prevent the infection from virus particles which are so small that they are even able to pass through bacterial filters of 0.20 Microns pore size(as they are not visible under light microscope). some one please clarify this .
It's a very danger calamity for human being. We should take care about everything& everybody should aware of it& it's safety precautions. We must fight together against it with our all power .
very useful
this is an absalulely nice pics and should wear mask
people are dieing from so much of the flu lets make a cange.
It's a bloody lie and 'we' are eating this crap story. They found another great way to scare the sh*t out of us.
Why in one single, medium-sized country more people die from a regular winter flu than now globally from this H1N1 flu? Why? Why are we scared? There is nothing to be scared of.
wow i never knew that it was so bad. I hope That scientests find a cure. No on should have to wear a mask on there wedding. Tat is terrible! The Swine flu is absolutly insane i can not even believe that it has led to wearing masks. Well i hope all goes well and everyone is going to be heathy and safe good luck all!
I hope nobidy gets the swine flue anymore! the kid in #16 looks like my old neighbor so weird! Its really sad