On a conference call yesterday, the Centers of Disease Control said that around 100,000 people in the U.S. are infected with the swine flu (link). While it's currently a mild disease, it's affecting more young people than usual, with Dr. Anne Schuchat saying:
"That's very unusual, to have so many people under 20 to require hospitalization, and some of them in (intensive care units)... We are now...
Jesse Washington of the Associated Press - author of this sleazy pro-Obama article - now offers "Immigration foes link flu to Mexican threat claims" (link, assistance from Don Babwin and Barbara Rodriguez of the AP).
The article mainstreams - and references - the recent smear article from Tom Allison of Media Matters for America in which the latter downplayed the risk of illegal aliens bringing...
... not what this is about."
Per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting director Richard Besser:
"That's not helpful to pork producers. That's not helpful to people who eat pork. It's not helpful to people who are wondering, how can they get this infection,"
Israel wants to call it the "Mexico flu". Another group wants to call it the "North American flu". We'll call it the swine flu.