WHO Extremely worried about pandemic

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If there was ever a time to do your preps, this is probably it.

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A strain of pig flu found in seven people in California and Texas is linked to

the deadly bird flu that has killed as many as 61 people and sickened nearly one

thousand in Mexico.

The World Health Organization said it was extremely worried that the virus could

start a pandemic across North America as scientists in the U.S. and Mexico tried

to determine if the deaths were due to the same new strain.

" We are very, very concerned, " WHO spokesman Abraham. " We have what

appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human. "

" It's all hands on deck at the moment, " he said.

The organization said the illness that killed 12 in Mexico had the same genetic

structure as the virus found in California.

President Obama had been informed and is following the outbreak closely, an

administrative official said Friday.

It's unclear how the U.S. victims caught the illness since none of the seven

people had contact with pigs and few had contact with one another.

" It is a virus that mutated from pigs and then at some point was transmitted to

humans, " Mexico's Health Minister Angel Cordova told the Televisa network.

Mexico was forced to shutter schools in its capital and surrounding areas

following an increase in the number of kids who reported having flu-like

symptoms.

All seven of the U.S. victims recovered from the flu.

Symptoms are similar to the regular flu and involve fever, cough and sore

throat.