Mexico City suspends schools over flu epidemic

Friday, April 24, 2009 - 12:14 in Health & Medicine

(AP) -- Mexico City closed schools across the metropolis of 20 million Friday after at least 16 people died and more than 900 others fall ill from what health officials suspect is a new strain of swine flu. World health officials worried that it could mark the start of a flu pandemic.

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