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A flu outbreak affecting more than 900 people in Mexico,
including at least 16 who died, was caused by a new
strain of swine influenza "that can attack anyone,"
Mexico's health minister said Friday. "It is a virus
that mutated from pigs and then at some point was
transmitted to humans," Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos
said.
The outbreak, which Mexican authorities began
reporting April 18, is being investigated by public
health officials throughout North America. In the United
States, officials say they're studying eight cases,
including the initial two children in California and
Texas who had no contact with pigs or each other,
suggesting that human-to-human transmission of this new
swine flu virus occurred. All have since recovered.
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