Obama gets the Swine Flu Shot

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have received their swine flu shots, and a photograph of the President moments before being vaccinated was released on Tuesday.

Obama first announced Monday that he and his wife “just got the shots.” A White House official later said Obama was vaccinated at the White House on Sunday and that Mrs. Obama was vaccinated a few days before her husband.

The president also encouraged everyone to get vaccinated against the H1N1 strain of flu now that the vaccine is available to the general public. The vaccines had been restricted to high-risk groups such as children.

Obama said the vaccine is safe.

“I think people just need to understand if I had the two people that are most important in my life, my two daughters, get it right away … then you need to make sure your children get it as well,” he said.

Daughters Malia, 11, and Sasha, 8, got their shots in October when the vaccine first became available. In the interview, Obama said the girls have been just fine and have yet to get sick this flu season.

               
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This post was written by BerezObama on December 23, 2009 Comments (0)

Zombie Swine Flu Attacks

Jose, we've come for you and Berez.....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The great zombie swine flu hoax of 2009 had the Twitterati briefly in uproar.

“Does Twitter have panic-creating potential?” asked Entertainment Weekly, relating the sudden explosion of mostly light-hearted “re-tweets” of a parody news story about the new swine flu strain and an outbreak of zombies.

As the world grapples with its first pandemic threat in years, Twitter and other social media have moved center stage in communicating news about the new H1N1 virus, forcing a rethink of traditional communications strategies.

The immediate benefits: sharp, targeted, viral messages can reach more people more quickly than ever before. But this also represent new and unfamiliar terrain for public health experts for whom message control can be a matter of life or death.

The lesson to be learned is don’t believe in Zombies..-Jose Biden

               
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This post was written by BerezObama on May 6, 2009 Comments (0)

Afghanistan’s Only Known Pig in Protective Custody

Jose, nothing to see here. Just me dressed like a human...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan’s only known pig has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus popularly known as swine flu.

The pig is a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan, where pork and pig products are illegal because they are considered irreligious, and has been in quarantine since Sunday after visitors expressed alarm it could spread the new flu strain.

“For now the pig is under quarantine, we built it a room because of swine influenza,” Aziz Gul Saqib, director of Kabul Zoo, told Reuters. “We’ve done this because people are worried about getting the flu.”

Worldwide, more than 1,000 people have been infected with the virus, according to the World Health Organization, which also says 26 people have so far died from the strain. All but one of the deaths were in Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak.

There are no pig farms in Afghanistan and no direct civilian flights between Kabul and Mexico.

1 pig and thousands of terrorists… I would love to see that ratio reversed. -Jose Biden

               
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This post was written by BerezObama on May 5, 2009 Comments (0)

Pigs Fearful of Catching Human Flu

Look Jose, No offense..but you are a dangerous species....

KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - Humans have it. Pigs don’t. At least not yet, and U.S. pork producers are doing everything they can to make sure that the new H1N1 virus, known around the world as the “swine flu,” stays out of their herds.

“That is the biggest concern, that your herd could somehow contract this illness from an infected person,” said Kansas hog farmer Ron Suther, who is banning visitors from his sow barns and requiring maintenance workers, delivery men and other strangers to report on recent travels and any illness before they step foot on his property.

“If a person is sick, we don’t want you coming anywhere on the farm,” Suther said.

Those sentiments were echoed by producers around the nation this week as fears of a possible global flu pandemic grew, with more than 200 people sickened, including more than 100 in the United States, and at least 177 dead, all but one in Mexico.

“There is no evidence of this new strain being in our pig populations in the United States. And our concern very much is we don’t want a sick human to come into our barns and transmit this new virus to our pigs,” said National Pork Producers chief veterinarian Jennifer Greiner.

“If humans give it to pigs, we don’t have things like Tamiflu for pigs. We don’t have antivirals. We have no treatment other than to give them aspirin,” said Greiner.

The pigs are off the hook…Blame the humans who created this thing. -Jose Biden

               
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This post was written by BerezObama on May 4, 2009 Comments (0)

Swine Flu Virus Manmade

Investigative journalist from Washington Wayne Madsen says the outbreak of the swine flu virus is raising suspicions. The sources quoted by him say it could be manmade.

It wouldn’t shock me. Population Control. -Jose Biden

               
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This post was written by BerezObama on May 2, 2009 Comments (0)

Call grows to shut border.. by folks other than Lou Dobbs

Damn right! Keep those f*cking Canadians outta here!

When the U.S. sneezes, Mexico catches a cold — so goes the old saying that is ironically being turned on its head as all eyes look south, afraid that the U.S. may be infected by what appears to be Mexican swine flu. But while public health and government officials on both sides of the border battle the outbreak, a virus of another sort is spreading across the Internet as anti-immigration groups use the imminent flu pandemic as an argument for closing the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Americans want our borders secured now more than ever,” declared William Gheen, head of Americans for Legal Immigration. The North Carolina–based group is calling on the Obama Administration to shut down the southern border. “This latest in a series of health threats emanating from Mexico speaks loudly for border security, and the government’s failure to respond accordingly should be a wake-up call for all Americans,” Gheen said in a statement posted on the group’s website.

It’s so typical that these immigrant bashers would misuse a public health crisis like this to further their agenda. And make it more difficult for me to find decent lawn care!–BEREZ

               
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This post was written by BerezObama on April 30, 2009 Comments (0)

Mexican soccer games to be without fans… just like MLS

"Did all our fans get sick?"... "Yeah. They're sick of watching 1-0 finals."

(AP) - Every professional soccer game in Mexico this weekend—176 matches in all divisions—will be played without fans in an effort to slow the spread of swine flu.The ban stretches from nine top division matches to 12 first division A games, 40 in the second division and 115 in the third. It is a giant step from last weekend when only three first division games were played behind closed doors.

To give fans something to watch, at least six top division matches will be available on free channels. Normally, those matches are seen only on pay-for-view TV.

The move by the Mexican Football Federation comes as a Central American youth basketball tournament was canceled Wednesday because of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico. FIBA Americas, the governing body of basketball in the region, said an under-16 tournament set for June 3-7 would be moved to a venue in Central America. It did not specify where.

The fear of swine flu is altering daily life in Mexico with almost everyone wearing masks, families hunkered down at home, and many restaurants selling only takeout meals.

Hey, maybe it’s easier to concentrate without tens of thousands of noisy fans screaming and cheering. At least that’s what the American teams have been telling themselves.–BEREZ

               
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This post was written by BerezObama on April 29, 2009 Comments (2)

Watch Burglars Hide Behind Swine Flu Masks

Berez, I am the watch burglar..can you spot me in the crowd?

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Three armed thieves wore the blue surgical masks now ubiquitous in flu-hit Mexico City to hide their faces as they robbed watches from a department store, Mexican media said Monday.

 Employees and security guards at a branch of the Sanborns department store told the daily Excelsior the thieves were able to slip through the shop Sunday without attracting attention as they blended into a sea of masked shoppers.

 One of the robbers threatened store assistants with a gun while another guarded the door and the third helped himself to watches from the jewelry department.

 Mexico is in the grip of a new strain of flu that has killed up to 149 people and set off a major global health scare after infecting people in the United States, Canada and Europe, raising fears of a flu pandemic.

 Banks in the Mexican capital have been forced to abandon normal rules over not letting in customers wearing face coverings as the government took emergency measures over the weekend and advised residents in the crowded city to wear face masks at all times outside their homes.

What a clever idea..Using the masks to hide their identity and keep themselves from getting the swine flu…and they made out with the watches. Mexico is in the seventh circle of hell right about now. -JOSE BIDEN

               
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This post was written by BerezObama on April 28, 2009 Comments (0)

W.H.O. raises flu threat level…. W.H.Y.?

The sky's falling, the economy's collapsing and terrorists are gonna kill us.

More frightening swine flu news: At an emergency meeting today, the World Health Organization upped its pandemic alert level to Phase 4 from Phase 3—the first time the level has been above 3 since the system was adopted, in 2003. The designation doesn’t make a pandemic a foregone conclusion; it signifies that a “new virus can cause sustained outbreaks and is adapting itself to spread among humans,” ABC reports. In New York City, 20 additional cases of swine flu have been confirmed at a prep school, with 117 sick kids left to be tested and 42 cases in the U.S. in total. Mayor Michael Bloomberg cautions that the health of all the students is improving: “So far, we are not seeing a situation comparable to that being reported in Mexico.” South of the border, 150 are confirmed dead, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is announcing a new travel advisory for Americans visiting Mexico.

And the ice caps are melting, and bees and fish are disappearing, etc.  This literally goes on forever.  Ya know, maybe the earth is just trying to tell us to get the f*ck off. I would–BEREZ

               
Posted Under: Climate change, Swine flu, World Health Organization
This post was written by BerezObama on April 27, 2009 Comments (0)

Israel to Swine Flu: Not Kosher

Boy do I loooooooove Israel.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Swine flu? Not in the Jewish state. “We will call it Mexico flu. We won’t call it swine flu,” Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman, a black-garbed Orthodox Jew, told a news conference Monday, assuring the Israeli public that authorities were prepared to handle any cases.

Under Jewish dietary laws, pigs are considered unclean and pork is forbidden food — although the non-kosher meat is available in some stores in Israel.

C’mon Israel. Pig flu, swine flu, Mexican flu… What difference does it make what you call it? Bacon by any other name tastes just as sweet. But you wouldn’t know. -BEREZ

               
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This post was written by BerezObama on April 27, 2009 Comments (0)