Mexico City's Flu Scare: Empty Streets & Churches

[LowlyPion]

Mexico flu scare empties streets, churches, bars
Sun Apr 26, 2009 10:07pm BST

By Helen Popper and Mica Rosenberg

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - One of the world's biggest cities slowed to a snail's pace on Sunday as millions in the Mexican capital hid indoors to avoid infection from a flu virus that has killed up to 81 people.

The Roman Catholic faithful listened to mass on the radio rather than go to church, a professional soccer game was played in an empty stadium and weekend cyclists stayed off the road in a lock-down of a normally chaotic city of 20 million people.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE53P2EG20090426

Another virus springs up. Also apparently Texas, California, New York.

More information:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124077900486757017.html
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/

 

[Evo]

There is already a thread in biology.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=309673