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Hundreds of public concerts, sporting events and meetings were canceled
in Mexico City on Saturday as authorities tried to contain an outbreak
of swine flu.
Gregory Bull/Associated Press
White-coated health care workers fanned out across the international
airport here to look for ailing passengers, and thousands of callers
fearful they might have contracted the rare swine flu flooded
government health hot lines. Health officials also began notifying
restaurants, bars and nightclubs throughout the city that they should
close.
Of those Mexicans who did go out in public, many took the
advice of the authorities and donned the masks, which are known here as
tapabocas, or cover-your-mouths, and were being handed out by soldiers
and health workers at subway stops and on street corners.
“My
government will not delay one minute to take all the necessary measures
to deal with this epidemic,” Mr. Calderón said in Oaxaca State during
the opening of a new hospital, which he said would set aside an area
for anyone who might be affected by the new swine flu strain that has
already killed as many as 81 people in Mexico and sickened more than
1,300 others.
[Link to full story: http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090426/ZNYT03/904263014/1004/LIVING?Title=Mexico-Takes-Powers-to-Isolate-Cases-of-Swine-Flu]
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