Swine Flu Hits Mexico

Erika Cruz, left, helps her husband Miguel Anguel Esquivel walk toward the emergency entrance of the National Institute of Respiratory Illnesses in Mexico City
Julio Cortez / AP / Houston Chronicle

In Sickness and in Health
Erika Cruz, left, helps her husband Miguel Anguel Esquivel walk toward the emergency entrance of Mexico City's National Institute of Respiratory Illnesses. Esquivel was grunting, sweating and wearing tissue paper in his ears as the couple hurried to the hospital, with him showing symptoms of the influenza virus that has plagued the city

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