School closures

[rov1200]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8160314.stm

The government may close schools in the Autumn to allow the transmission of the flu virus to abate before the introduction of the vaccine. Is the government doing enough to prevent further deaths and should the schools be closed?

[Gromit]

The government are in a complete shambles about this. They did not enough precautions at the beginning and now we are the 3rd worst country in the world for infection.

17th March: First Swine flu in Mexico though it wasn't diagnosed at the time.

24th April: First confirmation of swine flu in Mexico

Between 17th March and 24th April more than 30,000 British holidaymakers had returned from Mexico. (This covered the Easter holidays, a peak time for trips to Mexico).

27th April: First British cases. They had returned before 24th so were already here spreading their germs before the Mexican cases were identified as Swine Flu.

We have 3rd most infections, because after the United States (2nd most infections) we are the next biggest visitors to Mexico. In 2008 315,000 went there.

The Government are to blame for a lot of things, but trying to pin the spread of a virus on them is plain daft.

[sqad617]

Gromitz...hear! hear!

[rov1200]

How did China with a population of 1.5 billion succed where we have failed?

[sqad617]

rov...cus their standard of hygiene is better than ours, plus the population took H1N1 seriously.......simples.

[Gromit]

rov1200

Because they didn't have 30,000 holidaying in the infected area.

[rov1200]

Thats not an answer! China because of its failure during the SARS crisis intended to get on top of Swine Flu which they have. We decided to treat it as a minor illness and did not pull our fingers out. The attitude like yours means 31 people have died in the UK so far.