
The excellent Banderas News Web site has a videotaped interview with Dr. Alejandro Rios, a Puerto Vallarta Internal Medicine Doctor and member of the Puerto Vallarta Epidemiology Committee. He talks about the swine flu in Mexico and how it is impacting Puerto Vallarta.
Click here to go directly to that video.
If you are considering a trip to Puerto Vallarta,here's some important info you should know.
For my most recent post on the risks of traveling to Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara, click here.
For more information, click here, for an article on the Jalisco governor's press conferenece from the English language newspaper, the Guadalajara Reporter. The cities of Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara are in the Mexican State of Jalisco. It is important to keep in mind that there have been NO confirmed cases of swine flu in Jalisco.
Click here for the latest advice from the US Consulate in Guadalajara.
The fears over swine flu have turned the resort town of Puerto Vallarta into a virtual ghost town. Bars and most restaurants have shut down. A former Chicago TV reporter who know lives in Puerto Vallarta recently reported on the scene there. For that story, click here.
For my previous post on Puerto Vallarta's bars being shut down, click here.
For my earlier post on the risk of swine flu in the Mexican State of Jalisco which includes Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, click here.