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...course, the weekend that saw the swine flu panic grip Mexico and, quickly after that, much of the world. At the toll booths on the road back to the capital, health personnel were distributing pamphlets with instructions. They were also handing out surgical masks. Insurgentes, the main avenue from the south into the city, was deserted; restaurants were closed; and, 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...
...about 1 million people from 1968 to 1969. "We are very, very concerned," WHO spokesman Thomas Abraham said, according the AP. "We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human." WHO convened an emergency meeting on Friday and activated money and personnel to dealing with the outbreak. "It's all hands on deck at the moment." Abraham said. (Read a story about the fear of bird...
...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. But it was still unclear if the vaccines would be effective against this new strain...
...according to Armitage, the committee had not eliminated the idea of including graduate students and postdocs in a teaching capacity—especially since it is a common concern that there might not be enough professors to accommodate student demand. Other proposals to alleviate the personnel shortage included making great books seminars application-only to control the size of the program...
...prepare the company’s taxes for ten years as an independent contractor. Although he had never noticed any suspect activity at HMC before—he said he was simply given data from which to produce returns—his new position’s oversight and personnel access provided him with information that gradually coalesced into broader—and more disturbing—insights into the company’s complex network of operations...