Obama Greeted By Man That Died Of Swine Flu

April 25. 2009

President Obama (Reuters)

President Barack Obama was greeted by a man in Mexico City, Felipe Solis, who has since died of swine flu. The outbreak has brought the city to a standstill. There are over 1,000 confirmed cases.

Mexicans wearing masks to ward off swine flue (Reuters)

Obama’s Visit

The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.

The Mexican government is distributing breathing masks to curtail the disease’s spread. There is no vaccine against the new strain of swine flu, health authorities said.

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