All Entries in the "health" Category
Video: Mexico’s drought leaves city dwellers and countryside high and dry
Crops are wilting in the countryside, and the capital’s water shortage has turned dire as Mexico grapples with its worst drought in more than half a century.
See the Los Angeles Times report here.
Share and Enjoy:
Money from Mexican migrants to Mexico continues to fall
The money that Mexicans living abroad send home to their families here in Mexico fell again in May, in what the Associated Press calls the biggest monthly decline on record.
“Money sent home by Mexicans working abroad fell by 19.9 percent in May, the biggest monthly decline on record as the U.S. recession slashed jobs.
“Remittances [...]
Mexico City museums ask for help after influenza
Visits to some of Mexico City’s museums have fallen by as much as 90% since the outbreak of the H1N1 virus last month that prompted a near shutdown of numerous facilities
An A-Z of the swine flu epidemic – from an armchair perspective
Apocalyptic doom scenarios, Bootleg Tamiflu, Compulsive news checking – the A-Z goes on…..
Taxi-driver conspiracy theory on swine flu outbreak
If you’ve spent any time in Mexico, especially Mexico City, then you’ll be acquainted with Mexicans’ love of conspiracy theory.
Video: Swine flu outbreak brings quiet to Mexico City
– Deborah Bonello in Mexico City for La Plaza.
Share and Enjoy:
Visual artist’s work is fitting during flu outbreak
Mexican-Canadian visual artist Alec Dempster, who lives in Xalapa in the state of Veracruz, got in touch to send us some images of his that are part of a series called “Toxic Love.”
Video: Mexico City restaurant business battered by swine flu
Fonda Garufa, a restaurant in the trendy Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, is feeling the effects of the swine flu outbreak.
Reactions in Mexican times of swine flu
The Internet really comes into its own during these times of swine flu. Here in Mexico, as many people sit out the crisis at home the Web is where many of them turn to express their feelings and stay in touch with what’s going on in the real world.
Pig Flu Paranoia: Aporkalypse Now?
Julia Cooke writes — But I worried this morning as I reached for the glass of water on my nightstand. I can’t tell my mother that my throat hurts, because she’ll think it means that she has to buy me a ticket home immediately.
Photo-blogging swine flu
Deanna Dent is an American photographer currently in Mexico City documenting what’s going on at ground level.
Track the swine flu outbreak on Google Maps
Well, as usual, Google is ahead of the game. You can watch the cases of swine flu outbreak around the world pop up here on Google Maps….
Share and Enjoy:
Hospitals are my new Mexico City hangout
Over the course of the last three days I have been to five hospitals. I was expecting to find lines of people, all of them coughing into their government-issued face masks, winding around the block. Not so.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse in Mexico…
then Mexico gets hit by a 6.0 earthquake!
Filming the knock-on effects of swine fly in Mexico City Sunday
I was out shooting all day in downtown Mexico City Sunday, trying to get a sense of how the swine flu outbreak is affecting local businesses.
Swine flu doesn’t deter art fans in Mexico City
I at least expected to see fashionable versions of the blue face masks being combined with the latest clothes labels, but it wasn’t so.
Video: Peter Gabriel asks for political will to end impunity over Ciudad Juarez’s dead women
Peter Gabriel implored President Calderon to show “real political will, muscle and budget” in investigating the hundreds of unsolved murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez.
Video: First soup kitchens opened in Mexico City as global economic crisis hits
The growing economic crisis has prompted the Mexico City government to launch its first ever soup kitchens for the city’s multitude of poor citizens, who are finding it increasingly difficult to feed their families.
Spotlight on dog overpopulation and abuse in Mexico
Still on the doggy theme of last week, a documentary screening in Mexico City over the weekend focused on how Mexico deals with the thousands of stray dogs roaming its streets. And no, it did not paint a pretty picture.
Video: Texan Travels South for Knee Surgery
Paul Hambleton is a Texan who traveled south to get some minor knee-surgery done.
Mexico’s HIV-positive orphans look to the future
An estimated 2,934 children ages 14 and younger have HIV/AIDS in Mexico, according to Mexico’s national center for the Control and Prevention of Aids (CENSIDA) (link to PDF). Those are just the cases that have been detected, and there is a lack of reliable statistics on the issue.
