Warning over swine flu virus
Tuesday 28th April 2009, 7:59AM BST.
Britons were warned to avoid all but essential travel to Mexico today as world health officials said the deadly swine flu virus can no longer be contained.
The UK braced itself for further cases as officials issued new travel advice after the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised its alert over the outbreak to level four, signifying a “significant increase in risk of a pandemic”.
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The first two British cases were confirmed yesterday and more suspected infections emerged last night.
The Foreign Office said: “We are now advising against all but essential travel to Mexico.”
It added that British nationals “resident in or visiting Mexico may wish to consider whether they should remain in Mexico at this time”.
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If the Government had ANY sense they would do the following for the next 4 months.
1) Ban planes leaving the UK
2) Ban planes entering the UK
As they did in Congleton, Derbyshire to prevent the spread of the plague.
For the next month I would also place all people returning from infected countries in isolation for a month.
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