CDC chief says businesses, citizens should prepare for swine flu pandemic
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- April
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It’s too soon to tell if the swine flu will become the pandemic that everyone is fearing, but a report on the Bloomberg news wire certainly doesn’t tamp down the flames.
Richard Besser, acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an interview that he expects to find more cases and deaths in the U.S. and citizens and businesses should review plans and be ready to act in the event of a global pandemic.
“Given the situation in Mexico, where they’re seeing much more severe disease, I would expect that as we continue to look we’re going to find hospitalized individuals and, unfortunately, I expect that we
will see deaths in this country,” Besser said.
The CDC today raised the number of confirmed cases in the U.S. to 64, with 45 of them in New York. No deaths have been confirmed in the U.S., but Besser said that will change.
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