Global Pandemic: Swine Flu

NOT CHILD’S PLAY Alexa Zuniga wears a surgical maskMEXICO CITY—Mexico readied a “temporarily closed” sign—taking the drastic step of ordering a suspension of nonessential federal government and private business activity as it tried to squelch a swine flu epidemic.

The World Health Organization ratcheted up an alert to Phase 5 and warned that “all of humanity” is threatened.

The dire warning showed that health officials are very worried about the potential for massive numbers of deaths worldwide from the mutated virus, even though the epidemic so far has claimed only a confirmed eight lives in Mexico and one in the United States. Roughly 170 deaths are suspected of having been caused by the virus in Mexico.

Switzerland and the Netherlands on Thursday became the latest countries to report a swine flu infection.

Swiss authorities said a 19-year-old student was stricken with the virus but was mistakenly released from a hospital and then hastily readmitted.

The Dutch government confirmed the country’s first case—a 3-year-old child who recently returned from Mexico.

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