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...from the World Health Organization, based in Geneva, Switzerland, suggesting that Mexican officials should have sent samples from flu patients - including the first Mexican believed to have contracted A/H1N1, 5-year-old Edgar Hernandez of Veracruz state, and the first to die from it, Adela Maria Gutierrez, 39, of Oaxaca - to labs in Canada and the U.S. sooner than April 22. Reforma notes that the first analyses of Gutierrez's blood and tissue samples done by Lezana's agency diagnosed severe pneumonia instead of flu. (Swine-flu victims usually die of pneumonia-like symptoms.) TIME has obtained a copy...
...improve its general public health system once the epidemic has passed. The country of 110 million people still has fewer than two doctors per 1,000 inhabitants, almost half the average of countries belonging to the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In rural states and Oaxaca and Veracruz, where Mexico's first swine-flu cases (and first death) are believed to have emerged in late March and early April, access to physicians and nurses is even more threadbare. The nation's public health budget is about 3% of GDP, again about half the OECD average...
...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 recognized Oaxaca as being the state that started the alert. (Though other affected states may have suffered earlier infections, they did not notify the central government...
...when she died, the first known fatality from the virus that swept through Mexico and into the rest of the world. A month before she took ill, she had just found temporary work, a government pollster job that sent her from door to door in the outskirts of Oaxaca, the city where she lived with her husband, a welder, and their three daughters, ages 21, 17 and 10. Her mother-in-law, whose house she lived in, says Adela worked very hard "from 8 in the morning until 11 at night every day, even the last days, when...
...there much indication that the PRI is a reformed or even chastened entity. In fact, as democracy has engendered federalism in Mexico, critics say many PRI state governors have gotten even more brazen than their 20th-century forerunners. In the impoverished southern state of Oaxaca, PRI Governor Ulises Ruiz is widely accused by opposition parties, media and labor unions of winning his 2004 election through vote fraud, of muzzling the media and violently harassing indigenous groups. Ruiz denies the charges and rejects calls by the opposition for his resignation. But he's a reminder that if the PRI were...