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Swine flu symptoms include high fever, body aches, headaches, coughing, sore throat, diarrhea, vomiting, fatigue and chills. The disease is transmitted directly between people, and not through animals, making it highly contagious. A single cough of an infected person can transmit the sickness to an entire room full of people. []


 * World Health Organization raised its global pandemic alert, saying the disease is no longer containable
 * As many as 152 people have died in Mexico from flu-related causes, although the number of confirmed cases in Mexico is 26
 * alarm level has increased to 4 from 3
 * Barack Obama declared a public emergency after 40 U.S. cases were confirmed in California, Kansas, New York, Ohio and Texas
 * The World Bank, in a worst-case scenario published in October, said a flu pandemic that’s similar to the 1918 outbreak known as the Spanish flu could kill 71 million people worldwide and push the economy into a “major global recession” costing more than $3 trillion.
 * symptoms of swine flu may be fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue.
 * sometimes diarrhea and vomiting are associated with swine flu.