BREAKING!!!!! Public Health Emergency Declared In The U.S. -- News Updates For April 26, 2009

A woman leaves an immigration post wearing a mask as a preventive measure against infection from swine flu at Tijuana airport, northern Mexico. Mexicans took new precautions on Sunday amid fears that a new flu epidemic believed to have killed up to 81 people in the country could reach "pandemic" proportions and spread to the United States and worldwide. (AFP/David Maung)

US Declares Public Health Emergency For Swine Flu -- Yahoo News/AP

WASHINGTON – The U.S. is declaring a public health emergency to deal with the emerging new swine flu.

The precautionary step doesn't signal a greater threat to Americans. But it allows the federal and state governments easier access to flu tests and medications.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napilotano says roughly 12 million doses of the drug Tamiflu are being released from a federal stockpile so that states can get it if needed.

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