No Time to Relax Now

According to the World Health Organization, the infected cases of the H1N1 virus in the United States have way passed Mexico. As of May 13, 2009, Mexico has reported 2059 laboratory confirmed cases of infections including 56 deaths while the United States has reported 3009 cases alone including 3 deaths. Meanwhile, Canada reported 358 cases including 1 death. These three countries seemed to have the highest number of cases so far. Not only was that. The infected cases were now traveling across the Pacific Ocean and exported to Asia. Officials of the Asian countries were in high alert and remained vigilance.

Given that the frequent traffic between Asia and the United States, it would be very difficult to avoid the spreading of the virus to the Asian countries, especially when the United States seemed to be ill-equipped for the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic and showed no sign whatsoever to deter the virus from spreading to other countries. For example, there were already several confirmed cases in Tokyo, China and Hong Kong in this week only and all of them were infected in the United States. Perhaps, port authorities and the CDC in the Unites States should take up stricter measurement so that the H1N1 virus could be over sooner.