The World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert to Phase 5 for the swine flu. This means that there have been cases reported all across the to world. And the outbreak can not be contained.
What really surprises me is that with todays modern transportation, why would someone think that an outbreak can be contained? People can get on an air plane, and in just a few hours be half way around the world. With this type of mobility its going to be impossible to contain the outbreak of a new disease.
This is one of the reasons why modern survivalist must be prepared on a moments notice. If areas are quarantined within just a day or two, any supplies that you are lacking will not be able to be obtained.
So far, Mexico has shutdown all of its schools, Britain has closed one of its schools and a school district in Texas was closed.
The government of Mexico is talking about shutting down the entire nation. This could have impact manufactured goods all over the world. Some estimates put the financial toll at 50 million US dollars lost every day because of what is going on in Mexico and businesses closing. The one topic that needs to be watched is food production. Until thousands of workers go from Mexico to the USA where they help harvest crops. Its not yet known how this Swine Flu situation is going to impact food production.
There are two major situations here that we need to watch. 1 - the development of the swine flu outbreak. 2 - how this outbreak is affecting production of needed goods, such as food and medicines.
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