Mexico Confirms Two More Swine Flu Deaths, Toll At 66
MEXICO CITY — Mexico has confirmed two more deaths from swine flu, bringing the death toll to 66, the health secretary said Friday. Tests have ...
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 06.14.2009 | World
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 06.12.2009 | World
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 06.08.2009 | World
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 06.07.2009 | World
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 06.06.2009 | World
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.
GlobalPost | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY -- China holds 70 healthy Mexicans in forced isolation. Paris airport baggage handlers refuse to touch suitcases from Mexican planes. Mexi...
Inter Press Service | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
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...
The Mex Files | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
In the street, the only mask is a condom. So says Fátima, a 40 year old Parque Sullivan "strolling hostess" interviewed by AFP....
Global Times | Posted 06.05.2009 | World
Following its accusation of China's "discrimination" against its citizens during attempts to contain the far-reaching A (H1N1) influenza, the Mexican ...
AP | ALEXANDRA OLSON | Posted 06.02.2009 | World
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 06.01.2009 | World
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...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.31.2009 | Chicago
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 05.31.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government decided Thursday to kill three wild boars at the Baghdad Zoo amid worldwide fears of swine flu, officials said. ...
AP | PAUL HAVEN and NIKO PRICE | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
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...
Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
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.
Betsy Perry | Posted 05.29.2009 | Style
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.
Inter Press Service | Marwaan Macan-Markar | Posted 05.29.2009 | World
BANGKOK, Apr 29 (IPS) - When the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised the influenza pandemic alert from phase three to an ominous phase four warn...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media
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.
Posted 05.29.2009 | World
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...
David Kirby | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
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 | NIKO PRICE | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
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 05.28.2009 | World
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...
guardian.co.uk | Chris McGreal in Washington, Jo Tuckman in Mexico City and Rachel Williams | Posted 05.28.2009 | World
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 | Posted 06.15.2009 | World