Flu? What Flu? | nytimes.com
If you are looking for a cheap travel destination, try Mexico. Short of war, Mexico has endured about the worst calamity that can befall a country’s tourism industry over the last few weeks. A few people who had traveled here came down with what looked, initially, like a potentially highly contagious flu. Within days, pictures of civilians clad in surgical masks, like scenes from some science fiction disaster movie, were leading newspaper and television reports around the world.