Mexican Health Chief: Swine Flu Cases Leveling Off (ap)

A doctor questions people seeking medical treatment at the makeshift waiting area set up at the entrance to the Naval hospital in Mexico City, Thursday April 30, 2009. Mexico is telling citizens to stay home, urging businesses to close for five days and suspending government services as the World Health Organization warns the swine flu outbreak is on the brink of becoming a global epidemic.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP – Mexico’s top health official said Thursday the number of new swine flu cases is stabilizing in the nation at the epicenter of the outbreak. Health secretary Jose Angel Cordova told a news conference he hoped the trend will continue and that a vaccine would be available in six months. European health ministers said they would speed efforts to develop such a vaccine.

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