Keep calm and carry on

WWII ERA SLOGAN STILL APPLICABLEGENEVA, April 28 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation is not recommending travel restrictions and border closures to fight swine flu, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

Infected people may not show symptoms at the airport or when they reach a border crossing, so travel limitations like those imposed during the SARS outbreak are ineffective, spokesman Gregory Hartl said.

“Border controls don’t work. Screening doesn’t work,” he told a news conference, describing the economically-damaging travel bans as basically pointless in public health terms. - full story here

Update on April 28, 2009 by Frank@OBOW

Brits flee Mexico…