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Friday, 1 May 2009 - More schools close, swine flu cases pass 100
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    Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: More schools close, swine flu cases pass 100 By LAURAN NEERGAARD,AP Medical Writer AP - Friday, May 1 WASHINGTON - Hundreds of schools scattered around the country closed as the nation's swine flu caseload passed 100 Thursday, and U.S. authorities said they eventually could produce enough vaccine for everyone if necessary _ but that shots couldn't begin until fall at the earliest. ADVERTISEMENT The outbreak penetrated over a dozen states and even touched the White House, which disclosed that an aide to Energy Secretary Steven Chu apparently got sick helping arrange President Barack Obama's recent trip to Mexico but that the aide did not fly on Air Force One and never posed a risk to the president. An estimated 12,000 people logged onto a Webcast where the government's top emergency officials sought to cut confusion by answering questions straight from the public: Can a factory worker handling parts from Mexico catch the virus? No. Can pets get it? No. And is washing hands or using those alcohol-based hand gels best? Washing well enough is the real issue, answered Dr. Richard Besser, acting chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He keeps hand gel in his pocket for between-washings but also suggested that people sing "Happy Birthday" as they wash their hands to make sure they've washed long enough to get rid of germs. It is safe to fly, U.S. officials found themselves stressing after Vice President Joe Biden got off message Thursday. Biden said he'd discourage family members from flying or even taking the subway. The White House insisted the vice president meant to say he was discouraging just nonessential travel to Mexico, the hardest-hit area. "It is safe to fly. There is no reason to cancel flights," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said. Not just planes but "all modes of transportation are safe in America," he added. But anyone with flu-like symptoms shouldn't be traveling anywhere unless they need to seek medical care _ the same advice that doctors give during the winter when regular flu kills 36,000 Americans each year. "If you're ill, you shouldn't get on an airplane or any public transport to travel," CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat told a congressional hearing. "If you're sick, stay home. I can't tell you how many times I've said that this week." So far U.S. cases are fairly mild for the most part, with one death, a Mexican toddler who visited Texas with his family _ unlike in Mexico where more than 160 suspected deaths have been reported. In fact, Schuchat said most of the U.S. cases so far didn't need a doctor's care. Still, the U.S. is taking extraordinary precautions, including shipping millions of doses of anti-flu drugs to states in case they're needed against what the World Health Organization has called an imminent pandemic, because scientists cannot predict what a brand-new virus might do. The Health and Human Services Department said late Thursday the government was buying 13 million treatment courses of anti-flu drugs to replenish the U.S. strategic stockpile and help fight the swine flu outbreak. The U.S. on Thursday also began sending 400,000 treatment courses of the drugs to Mexico to help against swine flu there. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the government was spending an estimated $251 million to replace the 11 million treatment courses offered to states recently and to purchase 2 million more courses. Part of the additional 2 million treatment courses will replace the drugs sent to Mexico. The U.S. has stockpiled about 50 million courses of anti-viral drugs and states have an additional 23 million. A treatment course is the amount needed to treat one person. A key concern is whether this spring outbreak of swine flu will resurge in the fall. Remember, CDC's Besser cautioned, not every pandemic is like the disaster of 1918. "There are some pandemics that look very much like a bad flu season," he said. Scientists are racing to prepare the key ingredient to make a vaccine against the never-before-seen flu strain, but it will take several months before the first pilot lots begin required human testing to make sure the vaccine is safe and effective. If all goes well, broader production could start in the fall _ if officials decide that's needed in addition to, or instead of, regular flu vaccine. "We think 600 million doses is achievable in a six-month time frame" from that fall start, Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Craig Vanderwagen told lawmakers. "I don't want anybody to have false expectations. The science is challenging here," Vanderwagen told reporters. "Production can be done, robust production capacity is there. It's a question of can we get the science worked on the specifics of this vaccine." Hundreds of schools were closed, with about 300 closures in Texas alone. At least seven Texas school districts have been closed entirely, including the 144-school Fort Worth Independent School District, affecting about 80,000 students. Officials in Texas were disinfecting school buildings, buses and playground equipment. High schools sports were suspended in the state as well as in Alabama. "We do think it's very prudent to close schools when a case has been confirmed or is highly suspect," CDC's Schuchat told lawmakers Thursday. Colleges are seeing cases too. Four were confirmed at the University of Delaware, and in Pennsylvania, Slippery Rock University will hold a separate graduation Saturday for 22 students who recently returned from Mexico and won't be beyond an incubation period. "People went to Mexico for spring break, came back and now we're seeing second and third generation spread," said Dr. Dan Jernigan, CDC senior science officer. Closing a school alone won't stop community spread. "If a school is closed, it's not closed so kids can go out to the mall or go out to the community at large," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said. "Keep your young ones at home." That means businesses will have to handle parents who miss work, Biden reiterated: "And the hope is that the employers will be generous in terms of how they treat that employee's necessary action of taking that child home and not being at work." The CDC confirmed 109 cases Thursday, and state officials confirm 21 more. Cases now are confirmed in: New York, Texas, California, South Carolina, Kansas, Massachusetts, Indiana, Ohio, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Delaware, Colorado, Georgia, Minnesota and Virginia. ___ Associated Press writers Eileen Sullivan, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Erica Werner and Libby Quaid in Washington and Mike Stobbe in Atlanta contributed to this report. 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