For what its worth, I still had the page up before they took it down so here is a copy and paste of this dummy ~ I swear these leaders do NOT have a clue
First of a level 6 HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH US. A level 6 means is has spread to another region in the world. A level 5 when you live in the region is the highest level
a level 6 to us doesn't mean squat
And again here we go with the "No confirmed cases in Florida" crap
OF COURSE NOT YOU DOOFUS ~ you never sent the samples to the CDC to get confirmed
well... until a reporter called you on it the other day
Theme parks, state brace for CDC test results on 3 possible swine-flu cases
By Fernando Quintero, Walter Pacheco and David Damron | Sentinel Staff Writers
May 1, 2009
As Florida health officials anxiously awaited test results on three potential swine-flu cases including one from Orange County there was continued attention on the area's theme parks as a potential hot spot for the deadly virus.
Lab workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday were testing samples from Orange, Lee and Broward counties that were sent by the state after preliminary tests showed they contain a protein associated with swine flu.
Dr. Kevin Sherin, director of the Orange County Health Department, said Gov. Charlie Crist's top health officials urged him to upgrade the Orange County Emergency Operation Center to Level 2 or partial activation. This means emergency responders are available and prepared should the need arise.
"It's not ... a panic," Sherin said at a news conference Thursday morning at Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty's office. "It is a threat, and we need to prepare."
There are no confirmed cases of swine flu in Florida.
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Ana M. Viamonte Ros said state health officials were expecting results on the Florida cases by today. It takes up to 48 hours to confirm a positive sample of swine flu. Lab tests at the CDC are the only ones in the United States capable of confirming the deadly swine-flu virus.
One of the samples sent for testing was from an Orlando patient who had visited Walt Disney World earlier this week. He had also either traveled to Mexico considered the epicenter of the virus or had close contact with someone from that country. This met the criteria Health Department officials established for high-risk patients.
S.C. school shut down after Disney trip
On Thursday, students in a South Carolina high-school marching band were being tested for swine flu after showing influenzalike symptoms after a trip to Disney World. Officials with Greenville County Schools said they shut down Mauldin High on Thursday and disinfected the building while waiting on lab results from swabs taken from the 18 students. The students began showing signs of the flu Monday, shortly after returning from Festival Disney, a four-day event for student bands.
Representatives from Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, SeaWorld Orlando and the University of Central Florida, Valencia Community College and Orange County Public Schools met with other top business, health and public-safety officials for about 45 minutes Thursday morning for a swine-flu briefing and strategy session.
Disney 'monitoring' events
At the session closed to the media except for a few minutes for photo and video opportunities mobilization plans were discussed, but no specific information flowed from the theme parks, one attendee said.
Walt Disney World spokesman Mike Griffin was peppered with questions afterward about how the parks were handling general precautions and didn't go into specifics.
But he said that Disney was "monitoring" the situation surrounding the South Carolina students. "That's all we can say at this point."
A Disney official later said the company continues to employ "rigorous" cleaning standards, including, among other things, monitoring bathrooms closely and sanitizing restaurant tables after each guest. "We are working closely with public-health officials and will continue to rely on their guidance and adjust our operations as needed," spokeswoman Kim Prunty said.
Sherin said some of Orlando's theme-park-area hotels are equipped to hand out special masks to sick visitors who request them, and each has sanitizing and cleanup plans in place to deal with the swine-flu virus, he said after the meeting with business leaders convened by Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty.
Crotty: 'We are prepared' for anything
Sherin said he's comfortable with how Orlando's major theme parks and hotels were handling the situation, but he plans to send more masks and more basic swine-flu information to some smaller tourist hotels and attractions, which may not have plans in place.
Sherin also noted that about 35,000 people die each year from seasonal influenza, which hits the U.S. mostly during the winter months.
Crotty said officials are "on top of their game," just as they were after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and multiple hurricane strikes in 2004. "We are prepared to deal with any situation as it may emerge," he said. "This has not begun to play out yet at this point. ... We're prepared to do deal with this as is appropriate in the days ahead."
At Orlando International Airport, almost all passengers on an incoming Aeromexico flight Thursday afternoon wore blue masks provided at the airport in Mexico City, passengers said. Irene and Jorge Flores of Mexico were on their way to Miami for a family cruise reunion but said they would have postponed their plans if they hadn't been arranged a year in advance. Irene Flores, 43, held up her mask and a bottle of hand sanitizer and pronounced the swine-flu situation "scary."
"We are afraid of people sneezing or talking to you in crowded areas," she said.
