Word: mexicanitis
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...though the malls and the supermarkets were open, there were few cars in the parking lots. Barriers were set up at the entrances to the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, the largest public university in Latin America; the museums were closed as were all theaters. (See pictures from the Mexican swine flu outbreak...
...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 pitch on Friday when the World Health Organization upstaged the Mexican government by saying that 60 deaths...
Fears of getting a killer bug are sweeping across the Mexican capital as reports erupted about an epidemic of swine influenza that is said to have killed dozens in recent weeks. The government ordered all schools and universities in Mexico City shut and advised people to 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...
...Mexican President Felipe Calderón cancelled a trip to the northern state of Chihuahua and called his cabinet ministers, state health chiefs and even senior military commanders to an emergency meeting on Friday. The Mexico City government initially had about 400,000 doses of vaccine left after the influenza season, which normally lasts from December to March. However, these were being used exclusively for medical personnel across the nation's hospitals, where hundreds of people with flu symptoms were being treated. The Mexican federal government was also reported to be handing out a million flu vaccines to the public...
...also unclear how much the virus had spread outside of Mexico. At least seven non-lethal cases of a swine virus had been reported in Texas and California (the U.S. cases seem to be susceptible to antiviral treatment; and, in a hopeful note for Mexicans, preliminary tests show 14 samples from Mexico to be identical to the American strain). Canadian officials have also found the swine virus in one tourist returning from Mexico. A Canadian travel advisory Thursday held back from telling people not to go to Mexico but advised Canadians to get flu shots and warned which Mexican states...