all the other doom and gloom warnings we are given with minimal deaths. Be smart, take care of yourself, wash your hands and go to the Doctor if you feel sick and that's all there is to it.

should, according to the recommendations in my country of origin, first call the hospital and announce their arrival. The authorities do not want suspected flu patients to wait in the waiting rooms together with other patients.

Litzman should be fired. Israel, on a good day, struggles with PR abroad. This is just more fuel for the fire. So what, are Mexicans kosher instead of pigs? I'm sure more Mexicans eat pork than not, so maybe we should call it "stupid haredi minister who needs to get a life and leave the rest of us alone" flu? Gets my vote.

Israel is without a Health Minister, and now we have a Deputy Minister that has insulted another country and no one responsible in the cabinate to handle the Health Ministry.

Hey Yaakov, take ownership of your gaffe . . . LITZMAN's FLU

What a revelation - and what a display of leadership. Perhaps when that's over we could even get to have a health minister. With so many people milling around, with and without portfolios, surely the job could be given to one of the underemployed ministers. He or she might then at least be persuaded that wasting time on what to call the flu should hardly be the 'minister's' top priority.

Litzman is the de-facto Health Minister - he's not a full-fledged minister because his party has a policy of not taking up minister roles - a legacy of some dirty business between Agudat Yisrael and Mapai, all the way back in Ben-Gurion's days. Haven't you noticed that Agudat Yisrael never has ministers, but rather holds influential, yet more bureaucratic, roles? Essentially, Litzman got the Health Ministry without a minister above him - thus allowing Bibi to reach an agreement with United Torah Judaism without actually compromising Aguda's political red lines.

Below is an excerpt from CNN coverage, which includes countries supposedly behind us developmentally, who have taken at least some token measure. "ISRAEL Cases: Two (a third is suspected) Israel's Health Ministry confirmed a second case of swine flu Tuesday... Measures: The Health Ministry has not issued special instructions to the public, nor adopted measures for monitoring those returning from Mexico. The country is calling the outbreak "Mexico flu" so that citizens do not have to pronounce the name of an animal considered impure in Judaism and Islam" Who hired our current less-than-useless, shameful, and embarrasing anti-scientific health minister, who makes us look as neanderthal-like as any extremist country we oppose? Who makes even the patriots among us say, "Oh, I see why people hate us..."

is H1N1, not H1N2.

out of proportion, the passangers on that plane should have been given mouth masks before getting on the plane bechlul. and then for the idiot parent who sent the kid to nursery, i mean thats just stupid, irresponsible, caresless, selfish. should i continue. what about the children he/she came into contact with? like i said a selfish act.