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THE COUNTRY?S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: ?U.S. public health officials did not know about a growing?

By Glenn Reynolds

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: “U.S. public health officials did not know about a growing outbreak of swine flu in Mexico until nearly a week after that country started invoking protective measures, and didn’t learn that the deaths were caused by a rare strain of the influenza until after Canadian officials did. . . . U.S. public health officials are still largely in the dark about what’s happening in Mexico two weeks after the outbreak was recognized.”

UPDATE: “Where’s Gerald Ford when we need him?”

Plus, a reader emails: “Drudge is doing a bang-up job of keeping US informed of what is going on. MUCH better than our duly appointed public officials.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 26, 2009 (boomark / email).