Bird Flu

RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - Women clean inside the Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City May 3, 2009. Religious services are shut to the public in the capital since the flu outbreak but Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said on Sunday the country's H1N1 flu virus epidemic had passed its peak and was now declining. He added, though, that it was too early for Mexico -- the epicenter of an outbreak that has spread to 19 countries -- to let down its guard. New cases of the virus, which mixes swine, avian and human flu strains, were still being tracked across the world.