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...Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova warned his countrymen Saturday evening that it's "premature to say we've passed the [outbreak's] most worrisome moment." But the positive flu-containment news coming from the government may well put public pressure on Calderón to let businesses like restaurants open sooner than the end of the long Cinco de Mayo weekend on Tuesday. With few people on the streets on what is usually a bustling Mexico holiday, businessmen like taxi driver Francisco Diaz are chafing. "I've been driving all day and all I've got to show...
...services Friday through Tuesday, the nation's long Cinco de Mayo holiday weekend. On Thursday, for example, the government reported that the daily number of new suspected cases is now about a fifth of what it was less than a week ago. That "makes us optimistic," said Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova. "We had expected geometric or even exponential growth. So we think we're on the right track." (See photos of the swine flu hitting Mexico...
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...
...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...