Tag: "swine flu"

Mexico City museums ask for help after influenza

Mexico City museums ask for help after influenza

| June 1, 2009 | Comments (0)

Visits to some of Mexico City’s museums have fallen by as much as 90% since the outbreak of the H1N1 virus last month that prompted a near shutdown of numerous facilities

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Cartoon pokes fun at Subcom Marcos' mask

Cartoon pokes fun at Subcom Marcos' mask

| May 15, 2009 | Comments (0)

The Mexican newspaper La Jornada today takes a poke at the jungle-dwelling rebel leader in the context of a nation trying to returning to normal after a H1N1, or swine flu, outbreak.

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Taxi-driver conspiracy theory on swine flu outbreak

Taxi-driver conspiracy theory on swine flu outbreak

| May 4, 2009 | Comments (5)

If you’ve spent any time in Mexico, especially Mexico City, then you’ll be acquainted with Mexicans’ love of conspiracy theory.

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Photo-blogging swine flu

Photo-blogging swine flu

| April 29, 2009 | Comments (0)

Deanna Dent is an American photographer currently in Mexico City documenting what’s going on at ground level.

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Track the swine flu outbreak on Google Maps

Track the swine flu outbreak on Google Maps

| April 29, 2009 | Comments (0)

Well, as usual, Google is ahead of the game. You can watch the cases of swine flu outbreak around the world pop up here on Google Maps….

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Hospitals are my new Mexico City hangout

Hospitals are my new Mexico City hangout

| April 28, 2009 | Comments (2)

Over the course of the last three days I have been to five hospitals. I was expecting to find lines of people, all of them coughing into their government-issued face masks, winding around the block. Not so.

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Making fun of face masks in Mexico City

Making fun of face masks in Mexico City

| April 28, 2009 | Comments (0)

As the global media coverage of the swine flu outbreak continues around the world, here in Mexico City people are starting to see the light side of the situation.

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Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse in Mexico…

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse in Mexico…

| April 27, 2009 | Comments (4)

then Mexico gets hit by a 6.0 earthquake!

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Filming the knock-on effects of swine fly in Mexico City Sunday

Filming the knock-on effects of swine fly in Mexico City Sunday

| April 27, 2009 | Comments (0)

I was out shooting all day in downtown Mexico City Sunday, trying to get a sense of how the swine flu outbreak is affecting local businesses.

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Swine flu doesn't deter art fans in Mexico City

Swine flu doesn't deter art fans in Mexico City

| April 25, 2009 | Comments (2)

I at least expected to see fashionable versions of the blue face masks being combined with the latest clothes labels, but it wasn’t so.

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