Swine flu hits mexico !!!!

An outbreak of swine flu in Mexico has killed scores of people and sickened hundreds, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.

Fadela Chaib, a WHO spokeswoman, said on Friday there had been 57 deaths in the capital, Mexico City, while Mexican authorities were also investigating three deaths and 24 suspected cases in San Luis Potosi in central Mexico.

Jose Cordova, the Mexican health secretary, said the disease was a flu virus "that mutated from pigs and then at some point was transmitted to humans".

Meanwhile, US public health officials on Thursday said that seven people had been diagnosed with a new kind of swine flu in the states of California and Texas, but it was not clear if they were linked with the cases in Mexico.

All seven people have since recovered from the virus, the Associated Press news agency reported.

US officials said the White House was closely following the outbreak in the United States and Barack Obama, the president, has been informed.

The officials said the virus in the United States was a never-before-seen mixture of viruses typical among pigs, birds and humans.

Armando Ahued, Mexico City's health minister, said a massive vaccination campaign was being launched against the illness.

Pandemic fears

The WHO, which has identified swine influenza as a potential source of a human flu pandemic, said it had activated its global epidemic operations centre, which oversees acute public health events in response to the crisis.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said the A/H1N1 influenza identified in at least two of the recent cases by US counterparts could develop into a pandemic-type virus.

Human outbreaks of H1N1 swine influenza virus were recorded in the US in 1976 and 1988, when two deaths were recorded, and also in 1986, while in 1988 a pregnant woman died after contact with sick pigs, the WHO said.

In recent years the global focus for a possible pandemic has shifted to the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has spread from poultry to humans and killed 257 of the 421 people infected by the virus since 2003.
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Another Iraqi professor killed

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:30:23 GMT
A female university professor has become the latest victim in a string of murders of intellectuals in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

The professor of law was assassinated in front of her home in the al-Intissar district of western Mosul by unknown gunmen on Tuesday, the local police said. They declined to give her name.

The US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 unleashed a vicious cycle of violence, and in the first three years of Iraq's occupation, more than 200 academics were killed and hundreds went missing or were driven into exile, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report said.

Last month, Ahmed Murad Shehab, a professor of Mosul University's Faculty of Administration and Economics, was fatally shot in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of al-Nur, on Mosul's left bank.

Many others have stopped teaching and researching in order to protect themselves and their families since the US occupation forces have proven unable or unwilling to protect them.

However, as violence dropped sharply across the war-torn country, the number of scholars assassinated decreased as well.


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Pentagon fears defeat by Hezbollah

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:26:44 GMT
The Pentagon is spending millions to learn from Israeli's defeat in the 33-day war on Lebanon, amid fears the US army would be outpowered by Hezbollah in case of a conflict.

The US Department of Defense has conducted interviews with those Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers, who fought against Hezbollah in the summer of 2006, to learn from the failures of their campaign, The Washington Post reported Monday.

The US military experts who studied the Israeli Army's annihilation were surprised by the defeat Hezbollah inflicted upon the armored columns, using anti-tank guided missiles.

Hezbollah forces are "extremely well trained, especially in the uses of anti-tank weapons and rockets," the newspaper cited a Pentagon report conducted on the group's military power.

According to another study conducted by the Army's Combat Studies Institute, "From 2000 to 2006 Hezbollah embraced a new doctrine, transforming itself from a predominantly guerrilla force into a quasi-conventional fighting force."

The 33-day war highlighted a rift among US military leaders, with some believing that the military should be restructured so that it would be better prepared for asymmetrical wars.

Others, meanwhile, were concerned that such changes would make the military vulnerable to conventional battles.

Many top Army officers however believed the war's outcome illustrated the price of focusing too much on counterinsurgency wars.

"The real takeaway is that you have to find the time to train for major combat operations, even if you are fighting counterinsurgency wars," said one senior military analyst who studied the Lebanon war for the Center for Army Lessons Learned at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

In an attempt not to be caught off-guard by Hezbollah forces in the event of a war, the US Army and Marine Corps had arranged several multi-million-dollar drills to simulate battles against the group.

Citing Frank Hoffman, a research fellow at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory in Quantico, the newspaper reported that the organization has conducted "five major [war] games in the last two years, and all of them have focused on Hezbollah."

Andrew Exum, a former Army officer who has studied the battle from southern Lebanon, was quoted as saying that "Even if the Israelis had done better operationally, I don't think they would have been victorious in the long run."

Tel Aviv, which launched the offensive to destroy Hezbollah's military power, was forced to eventually leave the region without achieving any of its objectives.

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