Schools across Mexico have closed and public gatherings are restricted, after more than 150 people are believed to have died from swine flu. The number of cases globally is rising, though no-one outside Mexico has died.
New swine flu infections were found around the world and the specter of a pandemic began to hit the travel industry as governments warned people to stay away from Mexico where 149 people have died.
Carnival Cruises said it canceled stops at Mexican ports for three of its ships on Tuesday and the Canadian tour operator Transat AT postponed flights to Mexico until June 1 due to the swine flu alert.
The virus is not caught from eating pig meat products but several countries, led by Russia and China, banned U.S. pork imports. The EU said it has no plans to restrict pig meat products from the United States.
Possible cases of the new H1N1 swine flu have been found in several locations in Mexico hundreds of miles apart from as early as mid-March, complicating the search for the source of the epidemic that his killed 149 people in Mexico.
The flu, a novel mixture of DNA from avian, swine and human viruses, appeared in Mexico in recent weeks in Oaxaca, Veracruz near the Gulf Coast, Baja California (Norte) on the U.S. border and the central state of San Luis Potosi.

According to unconfirmed information is the Dos Mares 500 race – planned to be held the coming weekend in La Paz – postponed based on the federal health authorities preventive steps to avoid spreading of the swine flu in Mexico. The La Paz Automobile Club will reschedule the race. Information on the Cabo 500 and Dos Mares 500 websites.

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