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Swine Flu symptoms - sudden fever, coughing, muscle aches and extreme fatigue, causes more diarrhea and vomiting than normal flu. Title: **How Swine Flu Spreads in Humans**

Facts: Swine flu mostly sickens pigs not humans - They get sick when people come in contact with infected pigs - Pigs can pass mutated viruses back to humans and they can be passed from human to human - There is no vaccine to protect humans from swine flu - You cannot get swine flu from pork or pork product Unbias site: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-flu-box25-2009apr25,0,5114253.story

Current Events - Swine Flu has made its mark in Mexico. - There have been 18 deaths that were confirmed to be swine flu. - Because people do not have a natural immunity from the virus it is hard to fight off or treat. Title: **Swine Flu Sparks Global Concern** site: []

Past Events - Henry Ford went up infront of a crowd and told them that he was going to get the swine flu needle right then and there. - He said that everyone there could get the vacination for free. - Only one person went up to get that vacination and that was Ford's secretary. Title: **1976 Fear of a Great Plague** site: []

Definations - CDC - Center for Disease Control Natural Immunity - immunity that is present without prior immunization. Vaccine - any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.

News Article - Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times Latest Developments | Updated: April 28, 2009 //April 28, 2009// //April 27, 2009// //April 27, 2009// //April 26, 2009//
 * Countries around the world began [|tightening their border and immigration controls] as the number of confirmed cases of swine flu continued to rise.
 * Investors [|bought heavily into drug stocks, spurned the Mexican peso and shied away from pork producers] as stocks dropped over fear about the outbreak.
 * [|President Barack Obama]said the growing number of cases of swine flu was "not a cause for alarm," and dispatched high-level officials from several agencies to allay concerns and demonstrate that the government was fully prepared to confront the outbreak.
 * American health officials declared a [|public health emergency] as 20 cases of swine flu were confirmed in the United States, eight of them in New York.

Speech - I think that president Obama should take action against the disease. It would be a good idea for him to fight this, schools have been shut down to keep from this from spreading. Obama has been taking as many precautions when there has been a slight case of the flu the person or people have been put under quarintine. Even though there has been no reason to call this an epidemic the president is trying to keep this under control and out of the way of the people. So yes, I do think that President Obama should issue a free vaccine to everyone.