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People are concerned now with the recent news about Swine virus. Since a lot of people are eating pork, they have a cause for concern.

According to SFGate:

Hospitals and public health departments throughout California, where six of the American cases have been found, were told Friday to increase surveillance of the rare strain of flu that combines genetic material from humans, pigs and birds.

State and federal health officials said there is little cause for alarm in the United States at this point – all of the U.S. cases have been mild, and the flu has been responsive to drugs. Everyone infected so far has fully recovered; one woman was hospitalized, but she had an underlying condition that complicated her case, state public health officials said.

In a separate news from Bloomberg:

At least 68 died and more than 1,000 became sick with flu- like symptoms in the Mexico City region in the past month, Jose Cordova, Mexico’s Health Minister, told reporters yesterday. Swine flu was confirmed in 20 of the deaths so far, he said. Of 14 tissue samples tested from Mexico, half were a genetic match with the swine flu reported in eight people in California and Texas, the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention said.

The new influenza strain, a conglomeration of genetic fragments from swine, bird and human viruses, is the biggest threat of a large-scale flu pandemic since the emergence of the H5N1 strain that has killed millions of birds and hundreds of people, said William Schaffner, an influenza expert at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee.

Thankfully, doctors are testing the reports now, according to Reuters:

NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) – Health officials are investigating what sickened scores of students at a New York City school to determine whether a deadly swine flu virus infecting people in Mexico and elsewhere in the United States was responsible, New York media reported late on Friday.

As many as 75 students at St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens became sick with flu-like symptoms on Thursday, and more fell ill on Friday, WCBS television reported. Health officials had tested the students and were investigating, and the school canceled its Friday evening programs.

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Yesterday, we informed you of the hijacking of a Maersk ship.

Thankfully, the US destroyer, USS Bainbridge tracked the US-flagged ship and retook control from the Somali pirates. The sad thing, however, is that the Somali pirates are still holding the captain in hostage.

The USS Bainbridge belongs to the Arleigh Burke-class.

She was launched on 13 November 2003 at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, sponsored by Susan Bainbridge Hay, Commodore William Bainbridge’s great-great-great-granddaughter. She was commissioned on 12 November 2005, with Commander John M. Dorey commanding.

Bainbridge is more than twice as long and displaces 20 times as much tonnage as her namesake a century earlier. She is homeported in Norfolk, Virginia.

The ship currently features the Remote Mine-hunting System (RMS),[1] which includes the Remote Mine-hunting Vehicle (RMV), an unmanned craft that detects, classifies, and localizes underwater mines.

Source: Wikipedia