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Then the hospital had a request. "After she died," Jose Luis says, "they told me they needed some samples to be sent to Mexico because her disease had been so different, so I let them." The results of the biopsies of Adela's lungs and liver would help send Mexico and the world into a panic: she had the H1N1 swine flu virus and was the first known fatality. On the day she died, the state of Oaxaca notified the Ministry of Health that it had a case of atypical swine flu; and on Sunday, Health Minister Dr. Martin Vazquez...
...April 2, Adela, who had diabetes, said she felt tired, cold, feverish. She suffered from diarrhea."We thought it was a normal cold," says her husband Jose Luis (who does not want his last name used). "We do not have Social Security or Seguro Popular [public insurance], so we went to a private doctor [on April 5]. She treated [Adela], and we paid her and bought the medicines." The physician said Adela had a throat infection and prescribed amoxicillin and Amboxal. But Adela did not get better. On April 7, she went back to the doctor by herself...
...husband and daughters stayed as close as they could throughout the process. "I was happy," says Jose Luis, "that even though the hospital has a rule of not allowing minors in, they let my middle daughter see her and say goodbye." The 17-year-old says, "I was sad to see so many tubes, but the social worker was very nice to us and allowed me to kiss her and stay with...
...Since she died," Jose Luis says, "doctors have come and asked us many questions regarding her work and anything we can remember - the names of her friends, colleagues, any place different from the usual that she had gone - but we really do not know." The physicians have also been monitoring the family's health. "We have not had any symptoms, thank God," Jose Luis says. "So we do not need to be tested. If we get sick, we will let them know, but now, there is no problem at all." Still, he says, "they keep on coming every...
...middle-class suburb with streets filled with single homes, one and two stories high, with garages and mom-and-pop shops, with interior patios and small gardens lined with flower pots, is the street where Adela lived with her husband and daughters. There, Jose Luis continues to mourn his wife. He wants her passing to have meaning. "What I want is [a piece of official] paper that says that she had this flu. I just want to see it in writing. I want my daughters to know that even in death she helped others. They say she was the first...