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Flu-hit Mexico plans recovery
Tue May 5, 2009 12:20am EDT
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico announced plans on Monday to revive its economy hit by a deadly swine flu epidemic it says has eased, but the global alert has triggered a trade dispute over bans on Mexican, U.S. and Canadian pork.
In a broadcast to the nation, President Felipe Calderon said the planned stimulus package would include a temporary reduction in taxes for cruise lines that visit Mexico, in a bid to lure back shiploads of foreign visitors.
The tourism sector, which accounts for 8 percent of Mexico's economy, has been badly hit by the epidemic of a new H1N1 flu virus strain, which prompted major operators like Carnival Cruise Lines to cancel visits.
"We are now going to concentrate on achieving the recovery of the economy as fast as possible," Calderon said, adding details of the stimulus plan would be given in coming days. "We're going to come out of this experience successfully and soon."
He repeated government assurances that Mexico, epicenter of the flu outbreak that has now infected more than 1,200 people in 21 countries, was over the worst of its own epidemic.
To date, 27 deaths have been confirmed -- 26 in Mexico and one in the United States. The flu's global spread has kept alive fears of a possible pandemic, although scientists say this strain does not appear more deadly than seasonal flu.
IMPACT ON TOURISM, AIRLINES
While the new H1N1 virus is not foodborne, fears of cross-border contagion stirred up international trade tensions after about 20 nations banned imports of pigs, pork and other meat from the United States, Canada and Mexico, the three most flu-affected countries.
Canada threatened to take China to the World Trade Organization unless Beijing backs down from its ban on imports of pigs and pork from the province of Alberta, where a herd of pigs was found to have the H1N1 strain.
Health experts, citing precedents such as the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic that killed millions of people, warn the latest epidemic could attack more violently a few months from now.
In a brewing diplomatic dispute between Mexico and China over the treatment of Mexican citizens caught up in the flu alert, Mexico sent a plane to retrieve dozens of its nationals quarantined by Chinese authorities.
Mexico accused Beijing of discrimination against Mexicans, but China's Foreign Ministry rejected the criticism.
Calderon condemned the quarantine measures against Mexican citizens overseas as "discriminatory."
In Mexico, Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said the government would lift the precautionary five-day shutdown it had imposed on public and business activities on May 1.
"(We will) resume, as planned, activities in the public and private sector on May 6 with recommendations on matters of health and hygiene at the work place," Cordova said. Continued...
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