do.rflex wrote: > The first person to die of swine flu was a > 39-year-old tax inspector...
XONACATLAN, Mexico - The 39-year-old bricklayer fell ill two weeks ago and became one of the first Mexicans to die of swine flu. But no health worker has come to his home outside Mexico City to offer medicine or ask about the neighbors' pigs... Full report: 'Early victim's widow was not informed that he had swine flu' By Olga Rodriguez Associated Press, Tuesday April 28, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/cvnncm > Public health workers sealed off the town and > began exterminating huge numbers of flies that > had reportedly begun swarming through homes. > However, they are yet to identify this outbreak > as swine flu... > "But Lezana said the presence of Eurasian swine flu genes in the H1N1 virus makes it unlikely that the disease originated in a Mexican pig farm..." Read more: 'First Mexico fatal flu victim sought help for days' By Robert Campbell Reuters, April 29, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/d2bp2z
