Downtown Puerto Vallarta last summer. Photo by Ed Walsh
A former Chicago TV news reporter who now lives in Puerto Vallarta says the streets are virtually deserted, bars most restaurants closed, and people are walking around with face masks. That is despite the fact that there have been no confirmed cases of the swine flu there.
The reporter also says that the city has run out of the Tamiflu anti-flu medication.
Click here to go directly to that report.
Puerto Vallarta is in the Mexican State of Jalisco. Guadalajara is the capital of the state and is Mexico's second largest city. For advice directly from the US Consulate in Guadalajara, click here.
For my previous post on Puerto Vallarta's bars being shut down, click here.
For my post on the risk of swine flu in the Mexican State of Jalisco which includes Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, click here.
Comments
I am booked to arrive in PV May 7th and return May 11th with three others. Should I proceed with my travel plans? What do you think?
Mike Bowden
I live in vallarta. It depends on what you are going to do. The city is virtually shutdown but if your not into nightlife I say go
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I'm happy to let you know Banana Cantina is open at night. I cut my trip short by one day and left on Monday. I've been talking to ex-pat friends in PV who are wondering what all the fuss is really about.
We are arriving in PV tomorrow. Are the cabs in service from the airport to resorts?
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