Mexico swine flu deaths spur global epidemic fears  Josh Hakala
By Josh Hakala Follow on Twitter on April 26, 2009 at 4:52 PM,
updated April 27, 2009 at 7:08 AM Faithful wearing face masks,
who managed to get inside a closed door mass, listen at the
Metropolitan cathedral in Mexico City on Sunday.   The worrisome
new virus -- which combines genetic material from pigs, birds
and humans in a way researchers have not seen before -- also
sickened at least eight people in Texas and California, though
there have been no deaths in the U.S.   The outbreak caused
alarm in Mexico, where more than 1,000 people have been
sickened. Residents of the capital donned surgical masks and
authorities ordered the most sweeping shutdown of public
gathering places in a quarter century.  President Felipe
Calderon said his government only learned late Thursday, with
the help of international laboratories, what kind of virus
Mexico is faced with. "We are doing everything necessary," he
said after meeting with his Cabinet to coordinate