AP – The World Health Organization warned countries around the world Saturday to be on alert for any unusual flu outbreaks after a unique new swine flu virus was implicated in possibly dozens of human deaths in North America.
AP – The Mexican government has issued a special decree clarifying Health Department powers to isolate patients and to inspect homes, incoming travelers and baggage to curb an outbreak of swine flu.
Reuters – A new flu strain that has killed up to 68 people in Mexico could become a pandemic, the World Health Organization warned on Saturday, as Mexico's crowded capital hunkered down in fear of the disease.
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aren't taking the drug, a national survey indicates.
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HealthDay – SATURDAY, April 25 (HealthDay News) — Mexican authorities
continued to take dramatic steps Saturday to try to contain the swine flu
outbreak that has killed as many as 68 people, and sickened more than
1,000 others.
AFP – Alarmed world health officials scrambled Saturday to contain an outbreak of swine flu that has killed as many as 68 people in Mexico, as the WHO warned that the virus had "pandemic potential."
HealthDay – FRIDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) — Mexican officials took
extraordinary steps Friday to try to contain a swine flu outbreak that has
killed as many as 20 people, and possibly dozens more, and sickened more
than 1,000 other people in recent weeks.
AFP – Mexican authorities sought to reassure citizens Saturday over a deadly new multi-strain swine flu, as the World Health Organization warned that the virus had "pandemic potential."