People tell me they’re worried that we’re going to Peru. But put it in perspective. We don’t stop traveling in regular flu seasons. And last year there were 38000 deaths in the U.S. from the regular flu. 38000. And how many with this new flu? 1. O-N-E.
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Forget Swine Flu, We’re Going to Machu Picchu
May 5th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Cusco · flu · influenza · Learn Spanish · Learning Spanish · Machu Picchu · Oaxaca Mexico · Ollantaytambo · Peru · speak Spanish · swine flu · swine-bird-flu · Travel Spanish
The Flu “Epidemic” in Mexico
April 26th, 2009 No Comments
I am writing about is another flu that turned very serious – one that not many of us learned about in school. I’m always surprised that so few people seem to know about it, since it was so devastating and had such an impact on the world. I’m talking about the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and 1919. The current “novel” strain of flu bears some remarkably similar traits.
Tags: influenza · Mexico · swine-bird-flu