SHOOT: 1500 sickened, 26 dead, Argentina is the country with the highest rates of infections outside of Mexico and the USA. Argentina presents a scenario that is certain to be repeated throughout other Souythern Hemisphere countries - in Australia, the rest of South America and Southern Africa with its highly vulnerable rural poor, Aids and TB infected populations, particularly susceptible. Of course South African authorities, while doctors strike, continue to advise citizens to remain calm. Of course, in today's culture we have only two modes: complacency and panic. We're now in Complacency Mode. But not for much longer.
Argentina has confirmed more than 1,500 cases of swine flu, which is spreading during the southern hemisphere winter.
They also said that school classes in the capital and three other regions would be cancelled from Monday, bringing forward winter holidays that had been due to start on 20 July.
He also appealed for calm, saying that officials were doing everything possible to control the epidemic.
Officials said that restaurants, cinemas and other public buildings would remain open.
There has been much criticism that the government may have responded too late to stop the epidemic, our correspondent says.
Argentina has had the third largest number of swine flu deaths in the world after Mexico and the United States.
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