Mexico to shut down government in flu fight

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Source: Associated Press

Decision comes as the World Health Organization warns of pandemic
Mexico's government is temporarily suspending all nonessential activity of the federal government and private business as the number of confirmed swine flu cases jumped.

The decision came as global health authorities warned Wednesday that swine flu was threatening to bloom into a pandemic, and the virus spread farther in Europe even as the outbreak appeared to stabilize at its epicenter. A toddler who succumbed in Texas became the first death outside Mexico.

Health Secretary José Angel Córdova Villalobos announced the move to shut down most of the country’s government and economy shortly after his department reported that confirmed cases of infection with the new strain of influenza had risen. The death toll in Mexico is believed to be 160.

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[uppityperson]

1. huh. Added this to my gd H1N1/swine flu topic.

Seems doing what must be done to try to contain the further spread?

[Xipe Totec]

2. Sounds like when my mom was a child,

and they shut down the churches during mesquite season.

The kids would eat mesquite beans and their farts would stink so bad, they would shut down the church, until mesquite season was over...

:rofl:

I'm not making this up; this is a story from my mother's own lips.

She was born and raised in Mexico...

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. You may think this is a joke but it is not

this is essentially a nationwide quarantine

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