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...H1N1 strain of the influenza virus—commonly known as “swine flu”—worry has arguably spread faster than the disease itself. Some countries have imposed bans on travel to Mexico, and some international flights carrying passengers who complained of flu symptoms have even made emergency landings at the nearby major cities. Yet, in the midst of the panic surrounding the outbreak of the disease, which has appeared in several probable cases on the campus of the School of Dental Health, Harvard’s reaction to swine flu addresses what...
...reaction is its commitment to informing the community instead of inspiring panic. We certainly echo the recommendations of University Health Services officials who have suggested taking small precautions such as frequent hand-washing, but we hope that students do not allow a fear of contracting this new flu strain to inhibit their daily routines and activities. In cases like this one, caution—rather than chaos?...
Health officials say it could take weeks to determine the swine flu's origin - and some now suggest it just as easily could have been somewhere outside Mexico, perhaps California. But even if Mexico's first-response report card is mixed, its follow-through since then has won praise from health officials both at the WHO and in developed countries like the U.S. As of Friday, the country had begun setting up reliable testing labs; and of the first 776 suspected cases they'd analyzed (there are about 1,500 total), 358 were confirmed as swine flu, with 16 deaths...
...Friday the sprawling and overpopulated Mexican capital seemed barely inhabited as residents stayed at home. One couple, Benjamin Perez and Andrea Arriaga, both 34, ventured out only to see their doctor, to make sure the flu-like symptoms Andrea had been feeling recently weren't A/H1N1 - and that she, more than eight months pregnant, wouldn't infect the baby, which is due any day now. As they climbed out of the Tacubaya metro station, they stopped to wash their hands with disinfectant and drink fluids provided at stations set up all over town by the government. "Sometimes it feels like...
Perez's baby will be luckier, however, than another Mexico City-born infant, 21-month-old Miguel Tejada Vasquez. The boy died this week of swine flu, most likely contracted in Mexico, while on a visit to Texas with his family. Miguel was the grandson of one of Mexico's most prominent citizens, publishing baron Mario Vasquez Rana - proof, anyway, that in a country with one of the world's widest gaps between rich and poor, this plague made no class distinctions. With reporting by Ioan Grillo and Dolly Mascarenas/Mexico City