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Slovakia has announced the closure Sunday of all border crossings with Ukraine, because of the outbreak of H1N1 in this country. A crossing point, the largest, will remain open.

This measure stems from "the continuous deterioration of the epidemiological situation in Ukraine," said Interior Minister Robert Kalinak. He said the decision is temporary and is designed to protect the European Union, which Slovakia is a member.

Doctors will be sent to the checkpoint to examine passengers, with the power to prohibit the entry of anyone suspected of being infected.

The influenza virus H1N1 has infected more than 750,000 people in Ukraine, where hundreds perished. Kiev could postpone presidential elections from January to May due to the epidemic.

The World Health was on the alert Saturday, saying "very concerned" about the appearance of a swine flu virus that spreads among humans in the United States and Mexico, where he makes 20 fatal cases identified.

The virus was "clearly a potential pandemic" and the evolution of the situation is "unpredictable," warned the Director General of WHO Margaret Chan at a press conference call at the organization's headquarters in Geneva .

The non-affected countries should "increase their vigilance," claimed Ms. Chan, a specialist pandemics, returned the same morning the United States.

For her, this "new virus" identified as H1N1 and transmitted to humans constitutes a "serious situation".

"The most worrying is that (the virus) is transmitted from man to man", told AFP spokesman for WHO, Thomas Abraham, saying he had transferred "in genes never encountered before. "

"This is the first time we see an avian strain, two strains pig and a human strain, has also raised the head of the U.S. Centers for Control and prevention of diseases, Dave Daigle, who works closely with WHO.

These characteristics, together with the fact that the disease affects an age unusual for a bird - "young healthy adults - are fears of a serious epidemic, recalling the fears caused by avian influenza.

Especially since pigs are considered by experts as "crucibles" ideals that may give rise to a highly virulent strain for humans by combining genetic material from swine flu and avian flu.

According to WHO, they have been "involved in the emergence of new influenza viruses responsible for two pandemics of the twentieth century.

In Mexico, where 40 deaths were suspicious and a little more than a thousand patients placed under observation, authorities are already talking about the term epidemic.

The alert was given in the two countries, Mexico and the United States, where emergency operations centers have been opened. As the WHO has activated its "operations center" for managing emergencies.

For WHO, which has decided to send a special mission to Mexico, time is running out because the disease spreads geographically.

In Mexico, three homes were identified: the main city in Mexico, with 20 deaths from the virus (18 according to WHO), the second in central San Luis Potosi (24 cases including three deaths) and a third smaller, on the border with the United States, Mexicali (four non-fatal cases).

Evidence of the spread, the strain detected in 12 fatal cases in Mexico is "genetically identical" to that found in California in the United States, neighboring country where eight non-fatal cases have been identified, said WHO.

Moreover, in addition to California and Texas, suspect cases were reported in New York, where 75 students with flu symptoms were subjected to analysts, according to CNN.

Given the urgency, the Mexican authorities have ordered the total closure of schools and universities in Mexico and its state. The mayor of the capital decided on a mass vaccination campaign. Vaccines, however, were not available Friday, according to testimony.

"Vaccination is the second step," said the spokesman of the WHO stating that "vaccine production (was) possible since the virus was found" but needed "some time ".

Meanwhile, Tamiflu, a drug based oseltamivir used against bird flu, is effective for this virus, he said.

In the United States, a Mexican baby 23 months died of the H1N1 virus in Texas. The country is most affected after Mexico: 91 cases have been confirmed and 11 million antiviral treatment should be distributed. In California, authorities are investigating the cause of 2 deaths in the Los Angeles area and could be related to the swine flu. The state of emergency was declared, but the U.S. refused to close the border with Mexico. The U.S. president, Barack Obama, urged Tuesday the Congress to release $ 1.5 billion to strengthen the response capacity of the United States face a potential worsening of the epidemic. Moreover, the U.S. military investigation into a suspected case in a California Marine quarantined with the soldier who shared his room, while about thirty others are under surveillance, said Wednesday the head of the Marines.

The swine influenza (also known as porcine influenza, swine flu ') is running an acute infectious disease of the airways in domestic pigs. This is caused by porcine (pig belonging to), influenza virus, the virus influenza virus A genus, species belonging to influenza A virus. By reassortment of the segments of the RNA genome of porcine and human influenza viruses, it may, when outbreaks of swine influenza to the emergence of new anti-genetic variants occur (antigenic shift) having the new animal or human pathogenic properties. These new subtypes (reassortants) are, however, no causative agent of classical swine influenza.

Swine flu in Germany. Rip off with rapid tests "(Hamburger Morgenpost. But no one answered the question: What to do with the bodies? In the cellar perhaps?

I constantly have to think here of films and do not know how it is that I always want to "Dogs, ye have eternal life" (swine flu in Stalingrad) or "At death, each of the first" (The swine flu as a dark parable about the arrogance of urban civilization).

We hope for protection and rescue of a health system that is affordable for anyone, the doctors and medicines, such as shareholders fattens ne pork ribs. The corruption in the system like a virus has changed and is even under the Mirkoskop of PR agencies, ehm, I meant of course: under the microscope of the free press ... no longer recognizable. Adapted as a team leader with a time of medical service contract comes along and speaks with chalky, but a thousand voices. Whom to believe? And what?

More and more we become. Getting older. These parallel, we fear our demise as the Regisseuer censorship. We just live twice. Once for the operation, so for the work (any stop, dammit!) And the second time for the medicine. Just do not bite the grass, is called the Divise. For who sirbt loses loosed off to die, do the rest. And if so, say as well. And if not healthy, then filled with the blessings of civilization, just can not even get into the river ...

Honestly, we need not explain long further beating around the bush: The earth will be much better off without us. Much better. All animals, all animals, all of nature will go there without us better people. The less we are living beings, the better for everyone else. Do something good to bite into the grass! I must be "The man who never lived to think"!

For this reason, it makes absolutely no difference if a virus, whether or not pigs, 800 million people and carried off a volcanic eruption three times as much. So why the panic? Sure, nobody wants to believe in it and refuses to be his strength from all the successes and failures, from the pains and hopes, I inflated the eternal nothingness to tender. Moreover, it is very painful to lose family members. So to prevent it may still cost billions! "Death at a Funeral".

I do not know exactly how it happens, but the older I get, the more boring I find this whole panic about natural disasters, epidemics and economic collapses. Have I ever been immune to the press?

Look at you but at times in the magazine store at the station. The vast majority of publications are absolutely irrelevant, redundant or just stupid. But you get the feeling there are more and more magazines and newspapers, even if the publisher pulped all Nas long title. It almost seems as though ignorance and banality are constantly fed ... so that not one day wakes up and finds himself is one of the deadly virus!

Maybe it's because we have to plan anything, there are no real dangers and adventures to experience, nothing challenging, and therefore are constantly on the lookout for the next kick ...

Because we do not seem to know right living, we can not really die. And perhaps it is also so that we can not really BE healthy, because we were never really sick. Right?