Jose Cordova, Mexico’s health secretary, said at a press conference last night that “the number of deaths has remained more of less stable” since Monday, when the official death toll stood at 152 with 2,000 thought to be infected.
The number of suspected swine flu deaths in Mexico rose again last night to 159, with 2,498 others thought to be infected, although the numbers showed signs of stabilising as the country imposed a dramatic lockdown on restaurants, gyms, and tourist attractions.
Of those thought to have contracted the disease, about half have been treated and sent home to recover.
Sr Cordova said that since the weekend the authorities have put in place rapid testing procedures to rule out other types of flu and start anti-viral treatment more quickly in swine-flu cases. However, the tests to definitively determine swine flu remain time consuming.
Officials in Mexico City have ordered all restaurants, bars and cinemas closed as they take increasingly radical measures to fight the outbreak. Establishments offering food are prohibited from serving sit-down customers under the measure, although they are allowed to provide take-away orders.
The Mexican government also yesterday closed all its pyramids and other archaeological sites. Meanwhile, Cuba yesterday became the first country to ban flights to and from Mexico. Argentina soon followed and ordered 60,000 visitors who arrived from Canada, Mexico and US in the past 20 days to report immediately to the Health Ministry.
Scientists, however, say it is more likely that people who worked with pigs became infected and passed it on to other people. “Influenza in pigs is a respiratory disease, so there is much less risk associated with pig waste,” said Andrew Pekosz, an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. “The primary risk is from swine [flu]-infected people, and not swine or any swine products.”
After the outbreak, authorities here fumigated the streets and houses, gave checkups to the patients and distributed vaccines, though officials have not identified a vaccine for swine flu. Health officials said 35 of the people who fell ill were tested for swine flu, so others might be infected.
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The Sophisticated Kindle Reading device
Kindle has been being a buzzed thing in recent decade. All people mostly politicians and businessman, and aven author using kindle to their life simply and styly. We could see people like Sara Nelson, the former editor of Publishers Weekly, and/or Ed Rollins, the Republican campaign consultant, using Kindle too. May be it is expensive, which Amazon sells for about $359. People who are going to pay that, has been giving a statement to the world that they like to read - and they are probably not using it to read a mass market paperback.
But to other writers and editors, the Kindle is the ultimate bad idea whose time has come. People like Anne Fadiman, the author, was relieved to learn that her essay collection, “Ex Libris,” was not available on Kindle. “It would really be ironic if it were,” she said of the book, which evokes her abiding passion for books as objects.
The publishing world is all caught up in weighty questions about the Kindle and other such devices: Will they help or hurt book sales and authors’ advances? Cannibalize the industry? Galvanize it? Please, they’re overlooking the really important concern: How will the Kindle affect literary snobbism? If you have 1,500 books on your Kindle - that’s how many it holds - does that make you any more or less of a bibliophile than if you have the same 1,500 books displayed on a shelf? (For the sake of argument, let’s assume that you’ve actually read a couple of them.)
The practice of judging people by the covers of their books is old and time-honored. And the Kindle, which looks kind of like a giant white calculator, is the technology equivalent of a plain brown wrapper. If people jettison their book collections or stop buying new volumes, it will grow increasingly hard to form snap opinions about them by wandering casually into their living rooms.
It’s a safe bet that the Kindle is unlikely to attract people who seldom pick up a book or, on the other end of the spectrum, people who prowl antiquarian book fairs for first editions. But for the purpose of sizing up a stranger from afar, perhaps the biggest problem with Kindle or its kin is the camouflage factor: when no one can tell what you’re reading, how can you make it clear that you’re poring over the new Lincoln biography as opposed to, say, “He’s Just Not That Into You”? TO some book lovers and editors, there are myriad reasons to deplore the Kindle. Publishers will no longer get the bump that comes when travelers see someone reading.
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Recently, public and media buzzed with information that Obama should choose and appoint a Muslim in His Administration. She was a Muslim woman named Dalia Mogahed. The question remains, however, whether interfaith dialog with the President will lead to a tangible change in how the average American views Muslims. Rather than be skeptical or speculate, Let’s simply look at Mogahed’s appointment as a small step in the right direction.
Muslim Woman Named Adviser in the Obama Administration
Who is Dalia Mogahed?
According to Gallup.com, Dalia Mogahed is a senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. She leads the analysis of Gallup’s unprecedented study of more than 1 billion Muslims worldwide. Mogahed also directs the Muslim-West Facts Initiative (www.muslimwestfacts.com), through which Gallup, in collaboration with The Coexist Foundation, is disseminating the findings of the Gallup World Poll to key opinion leaders in the Muslim World and the West. She travels the globe engaging audiences on what Muslims around the world really think. Her analysis has appeared in a number of leading publications, including The Economist, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy magazine, Harvard International Review, Middle East Policy, and many other academic and popular journals. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Mohamed, and two sons, Tariq and Jibreel.
