President of Colombia has Swine Flu - Polidicks

[url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jeNxbFRPCCPKsRu9_7LIqUjh5yuAD9ADJDI02]Hot Sauce[/url] [quote]Colombian president comes down with the swine flu By VIVIAN SEQUERA (AP) – 1 hour ago BOGOTA — Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has the swine flu and officials have advised other South American leaders who met with him at a summit of the infection, authorities said Sunday. The 57-year-old Uribe began feeling symptoms Friday, the same day as a meeting of South American presidents in Bariloche, Argentina, and he was confirmed to have swine flu after returning home, Social Protection Minister Diego Palacio said. "This isn't something that has us scared," Palacio said at a news conference. Uribe, a key U.S. ally in Latin America, is not considered a high-risk patient and will continue working from his computer, officials said. Public health director Gilberto Alvarez said in a telephone interview that there was no need to put the president in isolation and that his condition would monitored for three days to a week. During a Union of South American Nations summit of the region's presidents Friday, Uribe spent hours defending his plan to give U.S. troops more access to Colombian bases as part of his government's fight against drug traffickers and leftist rebels. Many of his colleagues have voiced concerns about the idea. Palacio said Colombia's foreign ministry was informing governments whose leaders may have come in contact with Uribe. No governments immediately reported cases of sick officials. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who attended the summit, said he felt fine and had been tested for swine flu after returning from another UNASUR summit in Ecuador earlier in August. He said he didn't see any need to be tested again. "At this moment, no, because I do not have anything," Chavez said. "I am so well that last night I pitched" in a game of softball. Chavez, a socialist who has strained relations with the conservative Uribe, wished the Colombian leader good health. "I regret this and hope there are no repercussions for the president's health and that nobody else has caught the disease," Chavez said. Dr. Alberto Cortez, an infectious disease specialist at Colombia's Universidad Nacional, said it is possible the disease could have been passed to other leaders at the summit. But he added it needs to be established when Uribe became sick to determine whether he picked up the virus in Argentina — where there are many cases — or if he arrived there with the illness. Uribe is the second Latin American leader to come down with the swine flu. On Aug. 11, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias announced he had swine flu and was being quarantined at his home. The 69-year-old leader, who won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending Central America's civil wars, has recovered. Colombia's presidential office released a brief statement Sunday saying the country's National Health Institute confirmed that Uribe had swine flu. It said his case was "developing satisfactorily." The health institute's director, Juan Gonzalo Lopez, said Uribe's case was confirmed Sunday and the president he had complained of body pains and general discomfort. Cesar Mauricio Velasquez, spokesman for Uribe, said Uribe planned to handle his duties while recovering. "The president will continue doing his work by computer," Velasquez said. Colombia has reported 621 confirmed cases of swine flu, including Uribe's. There have been 34 deaths from the illness, the government says. Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. [/quote] All I have to say is, at least it's not the President of Madagascar. We'd really be fucked then. :v:

Trying to think of a pun >.>

Uh Oh... Is he going to lock down everything? :P

This just in: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HAS A COLD.

[quote=black hat;17037915]this just in: The president of the united states has a cold.[/quote] shut down everything

cool, maddox should talk to him

I'm sure a sniff of their domestic cocaine will cure that right up.

[quote=black hat;17037915]this just in: The president of the united states has a cold.[/quote] Kill everyone who has a disease!

Stop drinking coffee guys, my aunts friends dogs brothers owner told us that if you drink coffee from colombia you'll get swine flu because they're all infected there!

Swine flu is like AIDS now. You have to tell everyone you were in contact with that you had Swine flue when you contacted them.

[b]Pool closed due to swine flu[/b]

One in my class got it too, and I think I have just been trough a very light one (fainting or near fainting once, and feeling tired and light headed fornearly 6 days). I think that most will get it sooner or later. But yeah, politicians get sick too, even if we rarely get to know/see it.

well its okay because the president of columbia has no power over his own country anyways

My Doctor was one of the first people in the UK to die from swine flu. They tried to cover it up saying he had heart issues but his family where like "STFU".

Damn it guys, close [b][i]public transportation and lets cutoff water![/i][/b] somebody has a cold

My math teacher and one of my friends brothers has had it too. For all I know I might have had it but it's so piss weak I didn't even notice.

Well, we're boned.

Quick! To Madagascar before they close the ports!

A bunch of people I know got swine flu when they went on holiday. It's honestly only as worse as normal flu.

Oh my god! Someone else has a now pretty common mutation of human influenza a everyone run!

Madagascar :bandwagon:

Funnily enough an ad for colombian tourism just turned onto the TV OH WAIT NOW ITS A $cientology Commercial FFFF-

H1n1.

Swine flu is over-hyped by the media, and I'm tired of hearing about it every single day.

Lol agreed to below

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[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;17037748] All I have to say is, at least it's not the President of Madagascar. We'd really be fucked then. :v:[/QUOTE] Drat, I saw the thread and I had the joke ready and everything... Really, does it matter? Do we hear about it every time a world leader gets normal flu? It's killed more people than Swine flu has in the same time... I edited the thing so I'll post it: [img]http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/6244/columbia.jpg[/img]

Hell, normal Influenza A takes 500000 lifes a year. Swine Flu's taken like 3000?