Virus Hunters Try to Unravel Flu Virus Mystery

UTMB’s Thomas Ksiazek is featured in this article about the swine flu virus that is circling the globe. Some business leaders and citizens in Mexico and the United States complain that shutting down government services and public venues will hurt poor families and disrupt the economy in general, but Ksiazek says health officials and government leaders are doing the right thing. "There are, certainly, economic consequences for taking those actions, but what they are trying to avoid are the larger consequences of a whole lot of sick people in the population that are going to take it to an even higher order of transmission and also overburden the medical and other systems and shut down the other components of our economy," he said. Ksiazek also was interviewed and quoted by the Washington Post article published May 2 but a link is no longer available.