Central America Battles Swine Flu
April 28th, 2009 | by admin |Managua – Nicaragua is adopting measures to prevent contagion with the swine fever outbreak affecting Mexico and the US that also reports human-to-human transmission.
The National System for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Assistance (SINAPRED) banned live pigs and porcine derivative imports from Mexico or crossing through Mexico, which has already reported more than 20 fatalities.
El Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatemala adopted similar measures, and the latter has placed an epidemiological closure of its border with Mexico.
