{"id":672,"date":"2009-04-27T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T15:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=672"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:44:02","slug":"swine-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"Swine Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>(Interesting! The CBC links in this article no longer work, but as of this update, the ABC one still does.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope we&#8217;ve all been taking this seriously, but in case you haven&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swine Flu <em>is<\/em> in Ontario, we just haven&#8217;t gotten the tests back yet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2009\/04\/27\/swine-flu042709.html?ref=rss\">Ontario probes suspected swine flu cases amid pandemic fears<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> under control in Nova Scotia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/nova-scotia\/story\/2009\/04\/27\/ns-swine-flu-windsor.html?ref=rss\">Swine flu symptoms spreading beyond Windsor, N.S., campus<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And for good measure, here&#8217;s a US link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/Health\/SwineFlu\/story?id=7434501&amp;page=1\">Swine Flu: What You Need to Know<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And just so you know, if the Mexico stats hold, it&#8217;s killing about 6.5% of the people who get it. So, wash your hands with soap and hot water, stay away from people who are coughing and sneezing, avoid crowds, and look around you: 1 out of every 20 people you know who catch it is going to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Interesting! The CBC links in this article no longer work, but as of this update, the ABC one still does.) I hope we&#8217;ve all been taking this seriously, but in case you haven&#8217;t&#8230; Swine Flu is in Ontario, we just haven&#8217;t gotten the tests back yet: Ontario probes suspected swine flu cases amid pandemic fears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkoftheday","tag-yikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}