Posts Tagged influenza AH1N1
President Felipe Calderon asked the Minister of Health José Angel Cordova to notify as soon as the Mexican laboratories have ready the vaccine against Swine Flu H1N1 virus, or even head on to purchase it through international markets. The efforts and resources that have been focused on the production of the Influenza vaccine should not [...]
Addressing an audience of entrepreneurs from the Tourism Sector, President Felipe Calderón said he was convinced that the leadership, participation and unity of society as a whole is crucial to the country’s current situation, referring to the three main challenges Mexicans have had to face: the battle fought against organized crime, the effects of the [...]
The President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón has made the official call out to the world, to revive its tourism industry. Vive Mexico (which translates as Live Mexico) is a 92 million dollar campaign that looks to bring back international tourism and Mexican visitors to the country´s vacation destinations. More than a campaign some call Vive [...]
Mexico will next month host an international summit on swine flu at the Caribbean beach resort of Cancun, the country’s health minister said Monday. Representatives from 40 countries and the directors general of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization will take part in the summit from July 1 to 3, [...]
Now it’s a great time to travel to Mexico and all its holiday destinations. Bad press has turned into incredible vacation deals at beachfront hotels and summer bargains. “It would not be unusual to see packages now on sale from 30 (percent) to 50 percent below what they were last year at this time,” Priceline [...]
It’s been two weeks since the State Department and the Centers for Disease Control lifted their travel warnings on travel to Mexico, and the deals are rolling in. The CDC lifted its recommendation against nonessential travel to Mexico on May 15, citing evidence that Mexico’s flu outbreak was slowing down, increasing numbers of cases in [...]
Canadian doctors and the general public have differing views on the severity of H1N1. Relatively few Canadian general practitioners (13%) consider the H1N1 swine flu virus to be an extremely serious condition. Indeed, most doctors believe H1N1 is a significantly lesser threat to the general public than SARS, and that H1N1 is more closely aligned [...]
Scottish tourists yesterday defied the threat of swine flu to jet off to Mexico, just a few weeks after the holiday destination was paralyzed in the grip of the virus. Though health officials warn that the world remains on the brink of a pandemic, tourists´ lust for sunshine overcame their fears as they lined up [...]
The Quintana Roo Ministry of Health reported today that there are only 11 cases of Influenza A (H1N1) in the state. The authorities continue to monitor the situation and additional sanitary measures have been implemented throughout the state and in Cancun hotels, Riviera Maya resorts, restaurants, schools, government offices and in the private sector to [...]
