The Plank interviews a global health expert, and Obsidian Wings features a guest post by immunization, vaccine, and bioethics directors. A dispatch from Mexico City:
...as the death toll continued to rise and health officials sounded more and terrible warnings, the tangled, bustling atmosphere of this giant city descended to a surreal stillness. Movie theaters, bars, and discos are closed. Schools have been shuttered until at least May 6. Traffic is light. A Sunday soccer match in the Azteca stadium was played to empty bleachers. The occasional jogger still passes by my window, and a few brave families can be found hanging out with their unmasked kids in the nearby park. But the strange and scary swine flu is on everyone’s mind.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/04/how-bad-is-the-swine-flu/202572/
