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...there are more questions than answers. Most important among them: Exactly what is going on in Mexico, where epidemiologists are still working to understand the swine flu outbreak? Uncertainty, however, is unavoidable when it comes to influenza - a shifty, erratic virus that is harder to get a handle on than, well, a greased pig. "There is no standard picture for how this will develop," said Fukuda. "We don't know...
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...order to address student perspectives and queries. Discussion ranged from global and national health policy issues to Zucker’s personal perspective in these fields and the journey that brought him to his current position. He also referred briefly to possible long-term effects of the current swine flu outbreak on health policy, as many of the WHO’s resources are being aimed at that problem. “All this energy gets directed towards a crisis like this,” he says, “But then after that the energy can be dissipated...
...empty cordoned-off seats in Mexico City restaurants signal the latest attempt to stop the killer swine flu virus from spreading. Mayor Marcelo Ebrard on Tuesday ordered that the eateries serve take-out food only. He also called for the shut-down of other places where people could mingle: gyms, swimming pools and sports halls. Others on the long list of closed spaces: bars, discos, stadiums, museums, theaters, cinemas, church masses and of course, schools and universities. Any non-essential place where the public can meet, have fun and spread disease is off limits...
These containment tactics in the Mexican capital are being closely watched in cities across the world from Los Angeles to New York, where swine flu is also slowly seeping through the streets. But how are policy makers going to judge Mexico City's shutdown response to the outbreak: as a model for slowing infections; or an ineffective recipe that might bring about economic disaster? (See pictures of how Mexico has been affected by swine...