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INFLUENZA A (H1N1): Mexico to seek financial compensation for flu epidemic


Mexico plans to seek financial compensation for damages caused by the A-H1N1 flu outbreak that paralyzed the country and drove away thousands of tourists, arguing that the country's early alert helped contain a worldwide spread.


http://ase.emv3.com/DTS?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.france24.com%2Fen%2F20090515-mexico-seek-financial-compensation-flu-epidemic-a-h1n1&emv_key=AHZWsOgY2sZyGyA9MA

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Getting paid for helping to contain an epidemic they helped to create with their overpopulated country?  Interesting.

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