US Declares Public Health Emergency for Swine Flu

For the past few days, Mexico has been dealing with an outbreak of Swine Flu.

Now the US has declared a public health emergency in order to prepare for a possible pandemic. As of now about 20 deaths from this virus occurred north of the border.

I haven't checked in at work yet, but I'm sure Washington State Emergency Management Division (WA EMD) is now gearing-up and putting folks on stand-by to man the Emergency Operations Center (EOC).

Here's the story so far:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090426/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_swine_flu_emergency

This morning Comrade Karla sent me us an earlier story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/med_swine_flu

The above picture by-the-way is of soldiers patrolling the streets in Mexico City.