Word: viruses
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...market continues to stage an improbable rally which should have been affected by concerns about the spread of the Swine flu virus and the fact that several large American banks may need tremendous infusions of capital. GDP numbers issued by the government were also shockingly bad. The economy contracted 6.1% in the first quarter which was more than any of the estimates of sane analysts. This GDP drop followed a drop of 6.3% in the last quarter of 2008. Experts tried to calm the masses by saying that some of the fall-off was due to a dip in inventories...
...with French president Nicholas Sarkozy to discuss the flu scare. But France won't advocate suspending flights returning from Mexico, as that would strand thousands of passengers, leaving them in a scramble to find other ways out of the country and potentially increasing their risk of exposure to the virus. (Read a brief history of the flu vaccine...
...United States ballooned to 69 yesterday. The outbreak has already infected 1,600 citizens and claimed 150 lives in Mexico, the country where it originated. Effects of the potential pandemic could be felt across the U.S. as President Obama requested $1.5 billion from Congress to combat the virus, and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency after the virus infected more than 10 Californians and is currently being investigated for any role in the deaths of two others. As the death toll continues to rise, public health officials are not optimistic about the illness’s decline...
...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...
...sadly divided between chingones (the screwers) and chingados (the screwed). The conservative PAN and liberal PRD at least have identifiable platforms. But even today, if you ask most PRI-istas to articulate their party's political philosophy, you'll get rollo, or meaningless blah-blah. (Read about why the virus seems to be deadlier in Mexico...