This is a late breaking news that US will be relaxing treavel warning for Mexico. This is happening about three weeks after the warning for all non-essential travel was put in place.
The warming will be downgraded to ‘travel precaution’ for high risk individuals.
According to the article “The warning, and a similar one issued [...]
Is it now safe to go to Cancun, considering the outbreak of swine flu? On my blog, this is now a more common question; folks want to know if and when it is safe to go to Cancun.
There are currently two camps out there, the locals who believe it is very safe (including Mexican officials), [...]
Club Med has announced its travel policy for Mexico.
Here is excerpts from the page above, without interpretation:
“many countries to postpone non-essential travel to Mexico, Club Med has taken the decision to postpone all travel to its villages in Mexico until May 30, 2009.
Club Med will allow all bookings in the US or Canada for arrivals [...]
We have been asked by our blog commentors to blog swine flu in other areas of Mexico, including Mazatlan. So we will provide you information on a variety of Mexican locations. Please sign up to our newsletter to get the latest information.
There are currently no reports of Mazatlan Swine Flu.
There are currently no reported cases of Cabo San Lucas swine flu infections. This comes in the backdrop of multiple states in Mexico reporting swine flu outbreak.
Baja peninsula (home to Cabo San Lucas) appears to only have breakouts in Mexicali, a non-coastal city about 120 miles inland, near the California border and located between Pacific [...]
Although swine flu is wide-spread in Mexico (18 states at least), there are currently no confirmed cases of swine flu in Puerto Vallarta.
We are monitoring English and Spanish media and if we hear about any swine flu Puerto Vallarta cases, we will bring it to you.
In the meatime, this is a pretty good video on [...]
What are the most swine flu affected areas in Mexico? Well, the first infection was reported in Peroto, Veracruz, Mexico, on April 2nd, but it was misdiagnosed. The first death occured on Oaxaca on on April 13th.
The areas most affected areas in Mexico by swine flu virus include the following, courtesy of wikipedia:
Cases [...]
As of this date, no confirmed cases of Isla Mujeres Swine Flu are reported. Isla Mujeres is an island off of the Coast from Cancun that can be reached by ferries. It is a favorite day trip destination from Cancun, although it does have great accomodations for extended stays as well.
There was an [...]
A number of cruise lines, including Royal Caribbean Cruises and Princess Cruises are rerouting cruises from Mexican ports to other ports. The new plan replaces stops in Mazatlan, Cancun and Puerto Vallarta with U.S. ports such as San Diego, Santa Catalina, Santa Barbara and San Francisco.
This is the latest case of how H1N1 virus (aka [...]
Online paper Noticaribe (Spanish) has a report about QR swine flu. This report indicates that there are currently 11 people admitted for suspected influenza, including 4 tourists (tourists from Brazil, Scotland, US, and Austalia), in the northern part of Quintana Roo (the state in which Cancun and Yucatan Penninsula are located).
Test results are expected to [...]