Food and the Flu in Mexico: Prices Tell All

Percentage rise in price in Mexican supermarkets from29 April to 5 May Chlorox   234 Mayo           27.7 Eggs             12.5 Fideos         21.6 Beans           54 Guavas        40   (on account of their high vitamin…

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It’s So-o-o Boring, Swine Flu. Or is it?

Probably there’s no one in Mexico who does not feel a little assaulted by the (understandble) international reaction.  Mexico should have reacted more quickly!  Mexico over reacted! It’s all a…

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Dean of Harvard’s School of Public Health Speaks

I don’t know how I missed this link yesterday in the NY Times.  It’s by Julio Frenk, Mexico’s Minister of Health from 2000-2006 and now Dean of the School of…

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