Opinion by Andrés Oppenheimer MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS / MIAMI HERALD Tucson, Arizona | Published: 06.21.2009 The swine flu outbreak that has wrecked Mexico’s economy may become a case study in reckless journalism. It now turns out that it’s not clear whether the H1N1 pandemic originated in Mexico, as first reported, or in the United States. Like [...]
Mexico’s Shock Doctrine – The Swine Flu Hype
The Swine Flu Hype Mexico’s Shock Doctrine By JOHN ROSS Upon returning to Mexico City after 100 days in Gringolandia dealing with a personal health crisis, I was met at the door of the downtown hotel where I have bedded down for the past quarter century by a uniformed security guard in jackboots and blue [...]
Mexico, US, Canada announce swine flu deaths
Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) – Authorities in Mexico announced three more swine flu deaths and the United States and Canada one more death each as the world’s largest vaccine maker signed a deal with the United States to produce a swine flu vaccine. The World Health Organization says at least 46 countries have confirmed more [...]
Oceanside Luxury Made Affordable (Think Mexico)
by DEIRDRE VAN DYK Time Magazine Mexico Beckons. On May 15 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted its ban on nonessential travel to Mexico. Now, a month since the height of concern over swine flu outbreak, the country’s resorts are on a mission to coax back skittish tourists. Twenty Mexican hotel chains [...]
Mexico Goes On Sale
By SARAH NASSAUER The Wall Street Journal With a clean bill of health and a lifted travel ban, Mexico tries to draw tourists back with deals and perks. Everything for the wedding was ready — the on-site florists, photographers, and a 35-foot acrylic platform built over the blue ocean water at the Rosewood Mayakoba resort near [...]
United States Consulate General Guadalajara – Update Travel Alert
United States Consulate General Guadalajara PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO AS MANY AMERICAN CITIZENS AS POSSIBLE Update Travel Alert TRAVEL ALERT: MEXICO 1. The Department of State wishes to inform U.S. citizens traveling to and residing in Mexico that on May 15 2009, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [...]
Handshakes, high fives return as US flu fears wane
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US traditions of handshakes at graduation and slapping a high five during sports competitions were banned when fears of a swine flu pandemic were at their peak, but are gingerly making a comeback. “Did you see that? We touched skin,” an 11-year-old boy said after he and his baseball teammates tapped [...]
Carnival Cruise Lines to resume visits to Mexico this month
By Hugo Martín May 16, 2009 LA Times Carnival Corp., the world’s largest cruise line operator, announced Friday that it would resume visits to Mexican ports later this month. The decision came after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it would no longer recommend that Americans avoid non-essential travel to the country [...]
CDC downgrades Mexico travel warning
By Kitty Bean Yancey, USA TODAY The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped their recommendation Friday that U.S. travelers avoid Mexico because of the flu outbreak. The Travel Health Warning recommending against non-essential travel to Mexico, which went into effect April 27, is “downgraded to a Travel Health Precaution for Mexico,” the health agency said Friday [...]
The Crisis Came. Mexico Didn’t Fail. Surprised?
By LARRY ROHTER Published: May 9, 2009 New York Times MEXICO CITY – Just for argument’s sake, let’s compare Mexico’s management of the swine flu epidemic that broke out here last month with China’s handling of SARS in 2002. The Chinese initially tried to deny there was an outbreak, were slow to combat its spread [...]
Even as Fears of Flu Ebb, Mexicans Feel Stigma
By MARC LACEY and ANDREW JACOBS Published: May 4, 2009 NY Times MEXICO CITY — Medical experts are calling the new influenza virus A(H1N1), but for many Mexicans it is simply a scarlet A. From Chile, where sports officials declined to host Mexican soccer teams, to China, where the authorities forced even healthy resident Mexicans and Mexican travelers into [...]
Flu response downshifts as fears lessen
Chicago Breaking News May 1, 2009 8:47 PM On a day when federal health officials confirmed the first cases of suspected swine flu in Illinois, it also seemed clearer to health officials today that this strain of flu wasn’t becoming the killer once feared, and the state’s reaction to the outbreak downshifted in response. The flu [...]
Scientists see this flu strain as relatively mild
Genetic data indicate this outbreak won’t be as deadly as that of 1918, or even the average winter. By Karen Kaplan and Alan Zarembo April 30, 2009 LA Times As the World Health Organization raised its infectious disease alert level Wednesday and health officials confirmed the first death linked to swine flu inside U.S. borders, [...]
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