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News of the flu had been lingering for several days but surged to national attention late Thursday after a televised announcement from Federal Health Minister José Angel Córdova. "With the information obtained this afternoon, we have before us the threat of a new type of influenza," Cordova said, announcing the first total school closures over the urban area of 20 million since the 1985 earthquake. Mexican authorities said there had been 20 deaths confirmed from the virus in recent weeks, mostly healthy adult men and women, who were in groups not normally considered vulnerable. Then panic increased to fever...
Fernando Navarette fingers his blue mouth mask and eyes other customers suspiciously at the juice stand as he orders a special anti-flu cocktail of pineapple, guava and honey. "I want to get the vitamins in me and then get back home," says the 37-year-old graphic designer, carefully keeping his distance. "I don't want to be in the street any longer than necessary and risk bringing the virus into my house. I have young children to worry about...
...pull their children out of nurseries and avoid busy places such as restaurants, bars and cinemas. Pharmacies rapidly sold out of hygienic masks and vitamin supplements. Many clinics stuck signs on their doors advising they had run out of influenza vaccines. (See pictures from the last outbreak of bird flu...
Sources concurred that the virus originated from pigs and mutated into some form that jumped to humans. That raised the terrifying prospect that humans could be completely unresistant to it, potentially leading to a pandemic. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 to 1919 killed about 50 million people. The most recent pandemic was the Hong Kong flu that killed about 1 million people from 1968 to 1969. "We are very, very concerned," WHO spokesman Thomas Abraham said, according the AP. "We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human." WHO convened...
...have a pandemic,†Zucker said during the event. “It is true, we are due for one.†Zucker noted that while the United States has been fortunate in avoiding health scares like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the avian flu in recent years, it is certainly not exempt from possible future outbreaks. “If we think we can outwit Mother Nature, we have another thing coming to us,†Zucker said. “We’re not done with the issue of pandemics. Something else...