Alert!!! Attention!!! Swine Flu just took over 160 Lives!!!

8.42pm: US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said travel warnings to Mexico will continue until the flu abates, and nixed talk of closing America's southern border.
"People could be coming in now, under passive surveillance, who actually have the flu," she warned.

7.02pm: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg today said that health officials believe more than 100 people at the St Francis Preparatory School had been sickened, with 28 cases confirmed.

6.48pm: Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said authorities have confirmed two cases of swine flu in Scotland, the first confirmed cases in Britain.

6.25pm: Besser said businesses, schools, parents and religious institutions should formulate plans in case a worker, student or parishioner takes ill.



5.45pm: Mexican health and education officials just announced they are shutting all schools in the country until Wednesday May 6. Officials said they are now investigating 149 possible deaths from the swine flu, and warned more cases are likely to surface.

Mexican Health secretary José Ángel Córdova said at a news conference that 1,995 people have turned up at hospitals with suspected swine flu symptoms, with about 53% of those, or 1,070, discharged.
"This is the high point of this epidemic, and the number of cases will likely increase," Córdova said, according to a CNN translation.