MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The world's top epidemiologists fought on Tuesday to curb the spread of a new strain of flu that has killed up to 149 people in Mexico in a couple of weeks and may have spread as far as Asia.
Mexicans from company directors to delivery men on tricycles wore face masks while airlines checked passengers for flu symptoms and governments warned against non-essential travel to Mexico. Health experts assessed the risk of the virus becoming the first flu pandemic in more than 40 years.
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