Swine Flu Watch: NYC reopens schools & Mexico erects a statue of Patient Zero?
>>New York City reopens schools shuttered by flu
Students have returned to more than two dozen New York City public schools that were closed because of swine flu.
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>>Politician’s Novel Idea for Mexican Tourism: Statue of Swine Flu Survivor
Édgar Hernández, the Mexican kindergartner who is the first person known to have contracted the swine flu now circling the globe, may soon have a statue erected in his honor in the mountain village where he lives.
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[Gov. Fidel Herrera] considers Édgar to be not “Patient Zero,” the source of a global outbreak, but rather the first person in the world known to have survived the virus. In an interview with local reporters on Sunday, the governor likened the statue, which might be made of concrete or bronze, to the Manneken Pis in Brussels, the sculpture of a little boy peeing in a fountain.
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