If the Swine Flu is based in Mexico City, how in the world did it make it to New York over night?
Let’s say the flu is very contagious. It can spread like wildfire. Fine. But even if it did, it’s not going to jump several thousand miles over night.
Okay, so someone will argue airplanes. But it appeared in eight school children. Were they all on the plane together visiting Mexico City?
How can something nobody’s ever heard about all of a sudden jump from Mexico City to Texas and then on to New York within a day. What about everything in between?
kuapp.com/
11 Responses to “If the Swine Flu is based in Mexico City, how in the world did it make it to New York over night?”
Comment from bactiman63
Time February 28, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Students that returned from a trip to Mexico
Comment from jake
Time March 2, 2009 at 12:24 am
Yet to be solved.
Even NZ has 10 suspected cases.
I wonder if we/they have had any imported pork that could have been contaminated?
This is out of my league.
Comment from ~*K*~
Time March 4, 2009 at 7:06 am
The first poster is right.
Also I think they are not being truthful to the number of people who have it. You read articles and they mention their family also falling ill. Exactly how many people have it!?
Comment from lolzzzzPSE
Time March 6, 2009 at 9:24 am
kids got back from a trip to mexico. it really doesnt help with all this traveling. at this rate the swine flu will become a pandemic because no one is taking the right precautions.
Comment from Leo
Time March 6, 2009 at 3:19 pm
i just know its possible. but i have now idea how.
most probably it wasn’t overnight. it seemed to be over night because of when it was discovered in Mexico. it was probably around way earlier but only discovered the day before it was discovered in New York.
Comment from Julienne’s Mom+1 (ITS A BOY)
Time March 9, 2009 at 6:33 am
Viruses like this can incubate inside of human hosts. Meaning the virus is living in someone, is completely transmittable, but isn’t making them sick. That’s how stuff like this spreads out of control.
Basically the swine flu has been traveling around for a while, incubating in people who travel to Mexico and back home and the people they come in contact with. Its just starting to make people sick now and people are just getting tested for it now. That’s why we weren’t hearing about it a few weeks ago.
Comment from Shogun
Time March 11, 2009 at 6:13 am
In our highly mobile society diseases are quickly spread through air travel. Years ago they tracked the arrival AIDS to the US via a gay airlines employee who traveled to Africa. However with Mexico you don’t need airplanes, just look at the open border.
Comment from grumpy
Time March 12, 2009 at 8:51 am
It is very likely that it did spread through the air system on the planes.
All it takes is for one person to be infectious, they don’t even have to have the symptoms, and it can be passed on. So what if it was 8 school children? Maybe they all go to the same school and were infected by one person? Maybe someone on the plane infected another person besides the school children and that person then travelled to New York? The way viruses can travel now, be thankful it’s not Ebola.
Comment from hsym
Time March 14, 2009 at 5:21 am
It made it to New Zealand overnight. Think about it. There must be stacks of flights between New York and Mexico City every day, so take 3 people from every flight as a base- and boom! NYC is contaminated.
Comment from Jane
Time March 14, 2009 at 8:20 am
Possible vaccines available
Comment from FS
Time February 26, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I think those kids all got back from a trip to Mexico. I think..