Swine Flu: A little perspective

My best pal in Argentina wrote today and told me his wife's pregnant with their second child. This is great and I'm really happy for them, but he then told me how worried they are about the swine flu outbreak down there, what with pregnancy being a vulnerable moment for two souls, not just one. Then I saw this report today and wow!, look at the coverage all those pro-Peru journalists and commentators give this story.

Perhaps one day this might change; y'know if somebody with a voice loud enough to be heard cared enough to whip up a bit of hysteria about the fact that a country that boasts and brags about its GDP growth rate can't be bothered to look after its poorest citizens.

Viva investment grade. Viva, viva, viva.

Mexico Swine Flu Update

For all news and views coming out of ground zero Mexico on the quickly-becoming-world-number-one headline story about the swine flu outbreak, I thoroughly recommend you switch channels immediately and go to The Mex Files, as RG is on the case and updating regularly. He's already posted on the situation in downtown and provincial Mexico, but now he's dug up a story about how BigAgro and its confined space farming techniques for pigs in Mexico may (repeat 'may') have created the breeding ground for the mutated virus. Interesting stuff.

Go see for yourself. Here's the link to The Mex Files. Use it and be wise before the rest of them.

UPDATE: I just happened across this report in Mexian daily La Jornada and it's worth sharing, I think. According to Mexican doctors in the thick of things, early diagnosis and treatment of the swine flu virus strain that's making all the headlines is effective in treating the problem. That, in my book, is good news. Here a translation of the quote from the doctor:

"...the information we have is that those patients that are admitted early are managing to control the effects of the virus."