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Show DAILY A6 Five questions Flu about swine flu I What is it? Swine influenza A (H1N1) is a new strain of flu that consists of a mixture of genetic material from swine, avian (bird) and human influenza viruses. I How widespread is it? The United States tias the most confirmed cases with 64, but no deaths. Mexico has had 26 confirmed cases and seven confirmed deaths. Other confirmed cases include six in Canada, three in New Zealand, and two each in the United Kingdom, Israel and Spain. I Is there a vaccine? Not yet, but the virus is susceptible to the antiviral medications zanamivir and oseltamivir. t Is Utah in danger? State Veterinarian Bruce King says there is no evidence of H1N1 in Utah so far, but advises caution anyway. There are 45 confirmed cases in New York, 10 in California, six in Texas, two in Kansas and one in Ohio. I What can I do to protect my family? Public health officials recommend washing your hands frequently, covering your coughs with a shirt sleeve, avoiding close contact with sick people, and staying home if you yourself are sick. Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, Utah Department of Agriculture and Food, Utah Department of Health. Most Items .49 Dry Cleaned & Pressed Pre-Pai- Tax d Excellent Quality Awesome Prices - brent brown "You Guys Are Great!"- Brent Brown Automotive Group mm mm, name Continued from Al Wednesday, April 29, 2009 HERALD ECONOMIC IMPACT "People are thinking that pork isn't safe, popularized in American meand it is." dia, steer clear of the bacon and pork chops they usually Lu Arnold consume. The stock prices of spokeswoman, UPPA two American pork giants, Smithfield Foods Inc. and Tyson Foods Inc., both took a hit Monday before recovering isn't taking the threat serioussomewhat on Tuesday. ly. The county has partnered with the local United Way to "We're trying to get this changed from the 'swine influ- provide a public hotline for swine flu information. enza' to the 'North American influenza,' " Arnold said. "It Any resident can dial 211 and be connected to a live ophas nothing to do with pigs. erator who has been trained to People are thinking that pork isn't safe, and it is." answer questions, said spokesman Lance Madigan. Indeed, scientists at the U.S. Department of Agricul"The Salt Lake Valley Health ture have said that properly Department had the idea to cooked pork products are safe hook up their system to provide information to individuals to eat. There's not even any on the recent swine flu outevidence that uncooked pork or live swine in the United break," he said. "We care enough in Utah States are infected with the virus. Arnold said in reality, County to steal from the very the one who ougRt to be most best." Lance said the county is also worried in a swine-huma- n encounter is the pig. Biosafety in Constant contact with the regulations have been in place state Department of Health to for decades to protect the stay apprised of new developments. Employees are reviewanimals from viruses that humans carry, she said. ing the county's pandemic plans in preparation for a "Pigs get colds, they get viruses, they' get pneumonia just worst case scenario, he said. like we do," she said. "That's one of the things that "If we were to go visit a pig we're going to be watching farm and we had a virus, we very closely," he said. There have been no conmight give it to the pigs." firmed or probable swine flu Arnold said pig operations in Utah are relatively small. cases in Utah so far, accordThere are about 1.2 million ing to a state situation report released Tuesday. There swine statewide most of have been 64 confirmed cases them at Circle Four Farms in across the nation, mostly in Milford, a facility that exports New York, including five the majority of the state's 24,000 pigs weekly to places hospitalizations. like California. The flu appears to be most "In Utah County, there severe in Mexico, where officials attribute 152 deaths to the would be some really small flu. The World Health Organiones around," she said. zation has definitively linked 26 infections and seven deaths to County building the new strain of flu. Swine flu fear catcliing fast in weak world economy MWMMiaaaiaMlBaHBMMfiiillilkMi I Ace Stryker can be reached 6 or at (801) 344-255- astrykerheraldextra.com. ASSOCIATED PRESS damage on a global economy already badly listing. "On top of a synchronized global financial and economic crisis, an outbreak of swine fever is the last thing we need just now," Neil MacKinnon, chief economist at The ECU Group PLC, based in London, wrote this week. The swine NEW YORK flu outbreak is unleashing a side effect the global economy is in no condition to handle: fear. Travelers are canceling or delaying trips to Mexico, Cuba banned all flights to its neighbor and Argentina announced Tuesday a five-daban on flights arriving from Mexico. China, Russia and South Korea have banned imports of some North American pork, despite assurances that the flu is not spread through meat. Investors just starting to regain their nerve have again caught the jitters. The threat of a pandemic comes just as the world economy is showing the barest glimmerings of what analysts say might be the light at the end of what remains a long, dark tunnel. And now this. "This is just another negative shock when the "economy can least afford another negative shock," said Jay Bryson, global economist at Wachovia Corp. So far, fear of the flu is at least as responsible for the economic disruption as the disease itself. The number of confirmed cases in the United States climbed to 66, and federal officials warned that deaths were likely. In New York, the city's health There are already early y signs that swine flu fear is taking an economic toll. In Mexico City, canceled events and closed movie theaters, night clubs, museums and other establishments are costing at least $57 million a day, according to city's Chamber of Trade, Services and Tourism. That's a 36 percent drop in revenue generated by tourism and services in the Mexican capital, chamber president Arturo Mendicuti said. Royal Caribbean Cruises suspended stops at Mexican ports indefinitely, and Carnival Cruise Lines canceled Mexico port calls through May 4. Norwegian Cruise Line canceled the Norwegian Pearl's final two calls in Mexico this week and said its schedules do not include any other ports in Mexico until the end of Sep- tember 2009. In Chicago, traders bid down the price of pork futures Tuesday for a second straight day, reflecting what analysts say are consumer worries about catching the virus from meat. The drop in prices came even as China the market for exports of U.S. pork banned shipments of the meat from California, Texas and Kansas, along with those from Mexico. Russia and South Korea have announced similar measures. commissioner said "many hundreds" of schoolchildren were ill at a school where some students had confirmed cases. safeguards But the small pig population locally doesn't mean the Utah County Health Department that scale or greater could inflict severe 2003. An epidemic of Adam Geller THE third-bigge- President Barack Obama asked Congress for $1.5 billion in emergency funds to fight the disease. 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