Hey, they just wanna some here and pick some lettuce and tomatoes! No harm, right? You're a racist if you don't want diseased little mexcrements at your child's school. 'Course in a completely incompetent and useless "country" like Mexico they're probably gonna have to have the Red Cross or something like that step in and try to take care of that mess.

Mexico Seeks To Stop Spread Of Deadly Flu

by The Associated Press

People walk inside Mexico City's international airport wearing face masks.
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People walk inside Mexico City's international airport wearing face masks as prevention against the flu virus. AFP/Getty Images

NPR.org, April 24, 2009 · Mexico's federal government has closed museums, libraries, and state-run theaters as well as schools in Mexico City to stop a swine flu outbreak that authorities say may have killed as many as 60 people.

The government already shut down schools across Mexico City Friday in hopes of containing the outbreak that has sickened more than 900 people. World health officials worry a global flu epidemic could spread from the city of 20 million.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says tests show some of the Mexico victims died from the same new strain of swine flu that sickened eight people in Texas and California. It's a frightening new strain that combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans.

Mexico's health secretary, Jose Cordova, told local media the flu is a "new, different strain ... that originally came from pigs."

Mexico's Public Health Department said tests proved that 16 died from the new strain, and about 44 other suspected cases were still being tested. The department put the total number of people sickened at around 943 nationwide.

Cordova described a chilling new strain that had killed only people among the normally less-vulnerable young and midadult age range. One possibility is that the most vulnerable segments of the population — infants and the aged — had been vaccinated against other strains, and that those vaccines may be providing some protection.

All seven U.S. victims recovered from a strain of the flu that combines pig, bird and human viruses in a way that researchers have not seen before.

The World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, said there have been 57 deaths in Mexico and estimated the number of total cases at over 800, spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said.

Closing the schools kept millions of students out of classes and forced their parents to scramble to juggle work and family concerns Friday — the first citywide closure since Mexico City's devastating 1985 earthquake, according to local media.

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