Sunbathers at an Acapulco resort were photographed wearing surgical masks while they sunbathed to prevent contracting the swine flu. According to CNN, the number of reported swine flu cases is continuing to rise. Currently there are 365 cases with 141 of those cases in the United States and 156 reported in Mexico. Researchers and scientists are working to come up with vaccine for what they are now calling 2009 H1N1 flu. Scientists hope to have the vaccine to the public within a month. According to these scientists it is highly likely that they will develop the vaccine quickly. In the past it takes 4 to 6 months after the initial outbreak of a virus to develop and distribute a vaccine for it. Authorities in Mexico are reporting that the virus seems to be letting up by the measure of victims which were recently hospitalized form the virus. Since the outbreak hundreds of schools have closed in response and precautionary measures have been taken. Many schools have also halted interscholastic and athletic activities until the virus is further under control.
When asked to compare the 2009 H1N1 virus with that of the 1918 deadly virus Nancy Cox, chief of the CDC's Influenza Division stated "What we have found by looking very carefully at the sequences of the new H1N1 virus is that we do not see the markers for virulence that were seen in the 1918 virus".
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