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Daniel_Cheung
04-26-2009, 05:22 PM
Swine flu empties Mexico City's churches, streets
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2009/04/swine-flu-empties-mexico-citys-churches-streets

Churches stood empty Sunday in heavily Roman Catholic Mexico City after services were canceled, and health workers screened airports and bus stations for people sickened by a new strain of swine flu that experts fear could become a global epidemic.

President Felipe Calderon has assumed new powers to isolate people infected with the deadly swine flu strain that Mexico's health minister says has killed up to 81 people and likely sickened 1,324 since April 13....