Family of Mexico's first fatality grapples with infamy

Friday, May 1, 2009 - 02:14 in Health & Medicine

Adela Gutierrez of Oaxaca is the first person known to have died of the swine flu strain in Mexico. Her family says they are being shunned by the community. By the time she reached the hospital, Adela Gutierrez was gasping for breath, the tips of her fingers blue.

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