Have there been any reported cases in Cancun? Odd.
There could be a twenty percent mortality rate there but it wouldn't get reported. It would hurt the tourist trade.
I saw a map this morning of the areas in Mexico where the concentration of reports was heaviest, and the Cancun area was practically ground zero. Perhaps the reports we have been hearing from Mexico are simply being produced in Mexico City, leading people to assume that most of the cases are in Mexico City, while the reports actually refer to cases elsewhere in Mexico.
In any case, it was interesting to see on the map that Southern Mexico, on the border with Guatemala and the area on the Gulf of Mexico, was the place where that seemed to have the most widespread incidence of this flu. It looked to me as if it had probably come into Mexico from further south. Mexico’s southern border is very hard to control because much of it is remote and jungly, and people smuggling is a big activity there. It would have been very easy for the flu to be introduced through there, either accidentally or intentionally, and spread north.
I wondered about that too as the mexican govt said no beach communities were affected. Of course they wouldn’t want to lose their tourism money. Who cares if people get infected and take it home.