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...Mexican deaths may also be attributable to some underlying coinfection or health problem that is simply not present in the U.S. cases - but that will require more investigation to uncover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Mystery: Why Is Swine Flu Deadlier There? | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...public health response must be to slow the spread, which means getting a better handle on the virus. While the difference in severity between Mexico and U.S. cases would suggest that there are different viruses affecting the two countries, researchers have genetically sequenced swine-flu viruses from both Mexican and American victims, and "we see no difference in the viruses infecting sick people and less-sick people," said Fukuda. And even if there were genetic differences, it wouldn't necessarily mean much - scientists still don't know exactly which genes do what on flu viruses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Mystery: Why Is Swine Flu Deadlier There? | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

When the U.S. sneezes, Mexico catches a cold - so goes the old saying that is ironically being turned on its head as all eyes look south, afraid that the U.S. may be infected by what appears to be Mexican swine flu. But while public health and government officials on both sides of the border battle the outbreak, a virus of another sort is spreading across the Internet as anti-immigration groups use the imminent flu pandemic as an argument for closing the U.S.-Mexico border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calls to Shut U.S.-Mexico Border Grow in Flu Scare | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...almost 2,000-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border would be a disaster of a different sort. While anti-immigration groups focus on the impact of illegal entrants to the country, there is little attention paid to the goods that flow both ways: wheat (vital for production of the Mexican staple, tortillas) and other food commodities head south, while assembled goods made from U.S. components head back north. In that mix are some products that could be essential if the flu spreads. Dr. Carlos del Rio, chairman of the global health department at Emory University, wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calls to Shut U.S.-Mexico Border Grow in Flu Scare | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...border were feeling the economic downturn - and the ripple effect was moving farther north. Phillips says the manager of a large outlet mall in San Marcos, 200 miles north of Laredo, Texas, told him that sales were down over the Easter holiday, traditionally a popular shopping time for Mexican tourists in Texas. But that slowdown would pale beside the impact of a border shutdown. (See a video of protests against building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calls to Shut U.S.-Mexico Border Grow in Flu Scare | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

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