Even as Fears of Flu Ebb, Mexicans Feel Stigma

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Even as Fears of Flu Ebb, Mexicans Feel Stigma [1]

Medical experts are calling the new influenza virus A(H1N1), but for many Mexicans it is simply a scarlet A.

From Chile, where sports officials declined to host Mexican soccer teams, to China, where the authorities forced even healthy resident Mexicans and Mexican travelers into quarantine, Mexicans say they have been typecast as disease carriers and subjected to humiliating treatment.

Publication Date:

05/05/2009

Source: New York Times (New York) [2]

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