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While NBC's Kerry Sanders and CBS' John Blackstone (no link) stayed in Mexico City to cover the empty streets and crowded hospitals, kudos goes to ABC's Jeffrey Kofman. He traveled to the village of La Gloria and located the globe's first ever patient of this strain of influenza. Meet Edgar Hernandez, aged five, bedridden for three days earlier this month with a high fever. How sick was he? "Very sick." What were his symptoms? "With a cough." How does he feel now? "Good."
In all, 800 of La Gloria's 2,000 residents were stricken with the 'flu, although none died. "Just a few miles from the village are about a dozen huge industrial pig farms," Kofman showed us, but was refused access. The villagers blame the hog farms, part owned by US-based Smithfield Foods, for polluted air and ground water. As for the virus, "there is no evidence of swine 'flu in any of our herds or employees," the factory farm asserted in a statement.
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