Swine Flu cases in Asia...

Let’s talk about Swine Flu again… Since one week, everyone, everywhere, we are talking about it. So, I will take my turn and also talking about that but I will focus on Asia. Two cases have been discovered in Asia since the beginning: in China and especially Hong Kong and in South Korea. Not really far from Taipei I would like to say…

Why should we care more about Asia than about Oceania for example? In fact, if some forgot, Asia is still the world’s most densely populated regions. Both cases discovered came from Mexico. But now, we are also suspected others cases in Japan and India. Everybody has to know that if the WHO decided few days ago to put the level number 5, it means that a pandemic risk is for sure imminent. The WHO is still hesitating to put the level 6. It requires other infected area.

Chinese authorities are now quite worried. They tried to put under quarantine people which one have been in contact of the case. So it includes the hostel where the man slept in Shanghai, the air plane, transfer in the airport…too many places. Many people are not been finding yet. The problem in this kind of situation is that these people could be now in others countries, cities and for sure could infect other “innocent” people. Taiwanese authorizes are looking for 7 passengers on board in that fly.

Then to worsen the situation, we are in holidays in China and Japan, so a bigger risk of travelling exists. Yet now in a globalized world it seems very hard and difficult to stop people travelling. I mean we can order it and some of us can avoid moving but some of us need to travel for working or others good reasons. So that’s not a solution and I am afraid that nobody will find one. We just have to wait, to try our best to avoid such bad contacts and don’t panic, just enjoy life!