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Swine Flu in Guatemala

The swine flu has really hit hard in Guatemala. But my personal feeling is that the media community does not really care about this third world country. I have not hardly seen any news articles discussing the situation that is taking place in Guatemala.
I did catch one article that was in the Associated Press today.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's government is asking two towns to close down nearly all public venues to prevent the spread of swine flu.

Health Secretary Celso Cerezo said the virus has infected 96 people in the Central America country, including 11 in the last 24 hours. Most have recovered.

On Wednesday, Guatemala suspended all schools nationwide until at least July 1.

The school that our dear friends run in Antigua "Escuela Integrada" will even have to shut down for two weeks. This puts a terrific hardship on the children and the family's. These family's rely on the feeding program that we offer to the children each day. With so much malnourished taking place in the country, for some of these children it is the only food they have to eat all day. So with the government closing all schools these children wont have food to eat. It is a disparate situation.