Luckily for the rest of the world, at least for now the swine flu is not killing anyone outside of Mexico. However, that could be short lived. The best way from what I have studied so far to prevent major problems in your area on earth(wherever that may be) is to watch for the number of cases in your country, state, province, or city. As those cases of confirmed swine flu increase past about 20 all businesses that deal with the public in large numbers everyday(restaurants, theatres, meeting halls, museums etc. should close for about 10 days. People should stay at home with their families and not have any kind of physical contact with anyone beyond their families. Be sure to have enough food available for your family for at least those 10 days.
10 days is enough to kill off the virus in an area. It only can spread with physical contact(touching, kissing on the cheek and possibly sneezing or being breathed upon). So isolating people into family groups prevents the major spread of the flu. Though if a family member has it all members of the family could get it, one could further isolate the patient into a separate room and have everyone caring for the patient to wear masks and gloves when helping, feeding and caring for the family member.
Also, if you suspect a family member has the flu then notify your local hospital or health authorities or both so your local government officials know of the case. In this way the power of this virus to move and potentially to kill is stolen from the flu virus worldwide and a pandemic can thereby be prevented by an educated and informed worldwide citizenry.
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