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	<title>Comments on: Living through the Flu epidemic &#8211; a perspective from Mexico</title>
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		<title>By: rverduzco</title>
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		<description>&quot;... two days ago the press agencies distributed a photograph of a young Mexican couple kissing tenderly with their protective masks on.&quot;

At the supermarket, I saw a little boy with a mask decorated as a lion&#039;s nose and mouth, and many other people with all sort of smileys in their masks.

In addition to funny masks, there are a few songs inspired by the epidemic:

&quot;La Gripa del Marrano&quot;  (&quot;Swine Flu&quot; or perhaps more accurate &quot;Pig Flu&quot;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMEFCRbbi0g

&quot;La Cumbia de la Influenza&quot; (&quot;Influenza&#039;s Cumbia&quot;)
http://jordi.net/la_cumbia_de_la_influenza.mp3

I haven&#039;t tried it , but a Flickr search of &quot;Influenza Mexico&quot; surely would yield some &quot;surrealistic&quot; results. 

Quoting Paco Ignacio Taibo: &quot;Nobody knows what surrealism is until he gets to know our (mexican) reality&quot;.</description>
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<p>At the supermarket, I saw a little boy with a mask decorated as a lion&#8217;s nose and mouth, and many other people with all sort of smileys in their masks.</p>
<p>In addition to funny masks, there are a few songs inspired by the epidemic:</p>
<p>&#8220;La Gripa del Marrano&#8221;  (&#8220;Swine Flu&#8221; or perhaps more accurate &#8220;Pig Flu&#8221;)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMEFCRbbi0g" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMEFCRbbi0g</a></p>
<p>&#8220;La Cumbia de la Influenza&#8221; (&#8220;Influenza&#8217;s Cumbia&#8221;)<br />
<a href="http://jordi.net/la_cumbia_de_la_influenza.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://jordi.net/la_cumbia_de_la_influenza.mp3</a></p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t tried it , but a Flickr search of &#8220;Influenza Mexico&#8221; surely would yield some &#8220;surrealistic&#8221; results. </p>
<p>Quoting Paco Ignacio Taibo: &#8220;Nobody knows what surrealism is until he gets to know our (mexican) reality&#8221;.</p>
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