Ukraine Residents Dying of Mystery Illness

Elizabeth Prata has picked up on a story out of the Ukraine, where a mysterious illness is taking the lives of its residents.  Schools have been closed, public meetings banned and travel restricted as the illness, suspected to be pneumatic flu, spreads throughout the region.  Think swine flu is bad?  Click on over to Elizabeth’s post at the link below to read how bad pneumatic flu can be and, if this is truly what is killing people in the Ukraine, it could be worse than the bubonic plague.  The number of confirmed deaths in the nation nearly doubled from Saturday to Monday with 15,000 hospitalized harboring cases of flu and respiratory illness.

[Link:the-end-time.blogspot.com]

H1N1 Closes Schools in Michigan

At least two schools are closed for the rest of the week in St. Joseph, Michigan, because of the flu. Upton Middle School experienced 50 percent absenteeism on Tuesday due to illness with Lincoln Elementary found 30 percent of its students out because of illness. At least 17 schools in the Kalamazoo-Battle Creek area were closed on Tuesday due to low attendance.

http://www.wsbt.com/health/64982232.html