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So this is my concern, feel free to refute...

Four samples sent to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) from the University of Delaware have officially been confirmed as being swine flu or H1N1 as it is now being called.

However, now the CDC is telling the University of Delaware not to send any further samples and to treat all cases as if they were the swine flu. "With confirmation from CDC that swine flu is present in the community, routine testing of UD students is no longer required and all flu-like symptoms will be treated as potential swine flu." - SOURCE

My feeling is that if the CDC does not confirm further cases officially than how do we know what the real numbers are nationwide, because you can be sure they have told other states the same thing, right?

In response to an intensifying outbreak in the United States and internationally caused by a new influenza virus of swine origin, the World Health Organization raised the worldwide pandemic alert level to Phase 5 on April 29, 2009. A Phase 5 alert is a "strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalize the organization, communication, and implementation of the planned mitigation measures is short."

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When the phone rang after 9 p.m. and it was a work number I didn't answer it. I thought to myself, if they leave a message I'll see what's going on. Well, they left a message and sent a text and then called again.

The recording I heard started with "This is a University of Delaware Health Alert..."

The warning continued to say that four UD students were experience mild flu-like symptoms which meet probable definitions for swine flu.

Oh great!

I work for the University of Delaware, as a web developer for their College of Agriculture & Natural Resources. This semester there are not any swine on campus, but of course we know that this swine flu is spreading from human-to-human contact and not just from animal-to-human so it doesn't matter if there are no swine on the farm.

Regardless I find myself creating a health alert graphic banner to link to the UD page which is now collecting information about swine flu in the area and on campus. We're expecting to hear more at a news conference at 11 a.m. today.

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