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People leave the Mixcoac health center using scarfs to protect themselves from the virus of swine flu in Mexico city, on April 24, 2009.
Monday, Apr. 27, 2009

Open quoteIt's like declaring one for a hurricane. The hurricane may not actually hit. Close quote

  • JANET NAPOLITANO,
  • U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, on the government's public-health-emergency declaration in response to the emerging swine flu
Photo: LUIS ACOSTA / AFP / Getty Images | Source: The New York Times