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Living With Swine Flu: Mexico City Under the Cloud
It’s hard to read Reyna Hernandez’s distress behind her blue surgical mask. But you can hear it. “This is a very difficult time especially for our children,” the Mexico City housewife says as she waits outside the National Institute for Respiratory Diseases on the metropolis’ south side
Nearly 300 at Hong Kong hotel placed under quarantine
Hundreds of guests and staff were under quarantine in China on Saturday after health officials determined that a hotel guest had contracted the H1N1 virus.
Freedom of the media declines worldwide, report says
"Global declines in press freedom" persisted last year, with setbacks highlighted in Israel, Italy, Taiwan, Hong Kong and elsewhere across the world, an annual survey said Friday.
In the Developing World, Swine Flu Elicits Shrugs, Not Panic
If the fast spread of swine flu suggests the world is small, the global response to the epidemic reminds us that in many ways it’s still light years apart. Swine flu has been making headlines in the Western world, but in places like India and Africa, where “pandemic” is just another part of the daily vocabulary, no one has so much as stifled a sneeze
Swine Flu Update: Five Things Not to Do
The global rise in swine flu has showed few signs of slowing. Now in 11 countries, the H1N1 flu virus was confirmed on Thursday in the Netherlands and Switzerland; in Canada, cases rose to 27 and in the U.S., the caseload increased to 109 in 11 states, with hundreds of school closures that sent some 160,000 students home
A Spring-Break Legacy: Swine Flu Hits Colleges
Swine flu is going to college. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that a Notre Dame student tested positive for swine flu — school officials in Indiana said the undergraduate had not been to Mexico recently — and the University of Delaware has started screening students in a special clinic after four cases of influenza that meet probable definitions for swine flu popped on campus
Confirmed swine flu cases leap
The number of confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus has jumped more than 30 percent with 331 people being diagnosed so far, the World Health Organization said Friday. The virus, commonly known as swine flu, has spread to 11 countries, but the hardest hit areas were in the western hemisphere, the organization said
Putting a brave face on a crisis
In Mexico, few residents now venture out without a surgical face mask as the swine flu outbreak grips the country.
‘Swine’ flu a headache for pork producers
The disease that most people in the United States and worldwide have come to know as "swine flu" has caused a less-publicized rumbling among the nation’s hog farmers and producers.