![_Ingleside Heights Bathroom Drug Cook Busted, Maybe More Boring Than Expected [Updated]](http://sfist.com/assets_c/2012/02/cisneros_bathroomexplosion-thumb-250x250-693209.jpg)
Australians, Hong Kong-ians Panic About Incoming Swine Flu From San Francisco
The insane worldwide panic preceding a potential (though unlikely?) worldwide pandemic of swine flu reached new heights today, with Australian flights from California being screened before deplaning and a woman in Hong Kong hospitalized after visiting (gasp!) San Francisco.
Australian news org ABC has reports of passengers on a Qantas flight from SFO to Sydney being greeted upon landing by health officials who boarded the plane and asked anyone with the sniffles to please raise their hand (and presumably prepare for execution on the tarmac).
Meanwhile, China Daily reports of a 27-year-old woman hospitalized in Hong Kong for testing after returning from a visit to (gasp!) San Francisco!
Perhaps we will feel like asses for chuckling at all this should we be engulfed in an actual pandemic, but we don't think we will. Also, as pretty much everyone has repeatedly reported, this flu does appear to be responsive to Tamiflu and another anti-viral, Relenza.
And doesn't this seem like a practice round for an actual, flu-season pandemic, no? Anyhow, below, a handy little graphic of the morphing of the virus, via Australia's ABC.
