Countries slow to admit flu epidemic

As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world-health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to protect public health. By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ The Associated Press CANCÚN, Mexico — As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world-health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to protect public health. Only Friday did Argentina's new health minister, Juan Manzur, raise the country's official death toll to 44. He estimated 320,000 people have been stricken with influenza, including about 100,000 with swine flu, a significant increase in what the government acknowledged previously. Britain, for its part, had refused to do widespread testing for swine... [read full story]                    

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