Mexican Media Warn Of Alarming Increase In Swine Flu
MEXICO CITY — Three years after swine flu closed Mexico City and caused an international scare, the Mexican government and local media are at od...
MEXICO CITY — Three years after swine flu closed Mexico City and caused an international scare, the Mexican government and local media are at od...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
MEXICO CITY — Mexico has confirmed two more deaths from swine flu, bringing the death toll to 66, the health secretary said Friday. Tests have ...
Huffington Post Contributor | Catesby Holmes | Posted 05.25.2011
Front-page images of Mexican soldiers wearing surgical masks and armed with machine guns; 71 healthy Mexican citizens quarantined for two weeks in a H...
AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The number of cases of swine flu may have been several times higher than reported and the potential for rapid spread of the illness...
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
The slumping economy and the bloody drug war had been Mexican voters' top worries ahead of midterm elections in July. Then the mysterious A(H1N1) viru...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
The media's coverage of the H1N1 swine flu epidemic has been criticized by many for being overblown, fire-fanning, scare-mongering, overly hyped, and ...
Mike Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
There are no tourists. Nada. Although the only confirmed swine flu cases locally are across the border in San Diego, Tijuana as usual bears the stigma.
The Mex Files | Posted 05.25.2011
In the street, the only mask is a condom. So says Fátima, a 40 year old Parque Sullivan "strolling hostess" interviewed by AFP....
GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011
MEXICO CITY -- China holds 70 healthy Mexicans in forced isolation. Paris airport baggage handlers refuse to touch suitcases from Mexican planes. Mexi...
Global Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Following its accusation of China's "discrimination" against its citizens during attempts to contain the far-reaching A (H1N1) influenza, the Mexican ...
Inter Press Service | Posted 05.25.2011
By Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, May 5 (IPS) - Rebuked in the past for its sluggish response and attempts to cover up the 2003 outbreak of severe acut...
AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 05.25.2011
MEXICO CITY — Mexico reported three new deaths from the swine flu epidemic Saturday and urged citizens not to let their guard down against a vir...
Huffington Post Contributor | Catesby Holmes | Posted 05.25.2011
By Catesby Holmes The panic about swine flu reached a new pinnacle of absurdity this morning when a Mexican soccer player apparently threatened a Chi...
AP | PAUL HAVEN and NIKO PRICE | Posted 05.25.2011
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's top medical officer voiced optimism Thursday that swine flu has slowed in the nation hardest hit by the virus, but the Wo...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011
The nation has gone from zero to hysterical and the "Dirty Mexicans" everyone has been fretting about since the illegal immigration issue reared its ugly head just got dirtier.
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government decided Thursday to kill three wild boars at the Baghdad Zoo amid worldwide fears of swine flu, officials said. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
When White House reporters get the scent of a non-story in their nostrils, they pursue it with a maniacal zeal. And they won't just sit there and take "No" for an answer.
Betsy Perry | Posted 05.25.2011
Used to be the worst thing about visiting Mexico was drinking the water or tickling an ice cube in your margarita. Getting Montezuma's Revenge seems the least of Mexico's headaches for now.
Posted 05.25.2011
As more swine flu cases are reported, Mexico is fighting the claim that the disease started within its borders. The push back is becoming increasingl...
Inter Press Service | Marwaan Macan-Markar | Posted 05.25.2011
BANGKOK, Apr 29 (IPS) - When the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised the influenza pandemic alert from phase three to an ominous phase four warn...
Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011
The current swine flu epidemic, with all of its gravitas, actually almost makes light of another "epidemic" that has afflicted millions in the U.S. for years and which shows no sign of subsiding: childhood obesity.
guardian.co.uk | Chris McGreal in Washington, Jo Tuckman in Mexico City and Rachel Williams | Posted 05.25.2011
The EU's health commissioner today urged Europeans to postpone non-essential travel to Mexico and the US, as the death toll from the virus in Mexico r...
AP | NIKO PRICE | Posted 05.25.2011
MEXICO CITY — Two weeks after the first known swine flu death, Mexico still hasn't given medicine to the families of the dead. It hasn't determi...
Christian Science Monitor | Sara Miller Llana | Posted 05.25.2011
Streets in Mexico City that are normally choked with traffic were free-flowing over the weekend. Bars and churches were shut, and parks were empty. Th...
David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011
Mexican Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova announced Monday evening that officials have identified what they believe to be the earliest known case of the swine flu outbreak.
AP | KATHERINE CORCORAN | Posted 03.27.2012