Mexico recording fewer flu victims

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The number of deaths from the A/H1N1 flu in Mexico have risen to 64. More than 2,700 people have been infected. Mexico's health authorities say the fatality rate is 2.4 percent and the virus is making fewer people sick. They forecast no more than one-hundred deaths.

Mexican Health officials says hospitals in the country were seeing a drop in cases of the virus in recent days. Additional fatalities could come from people already in serious condition in hospitals.

Juana Maya, resident, said, "I feel quite calm, that is why I'm no longer wearing a surgical face mask. People are also much calmer. The pressure of the influenza, I suppose, is passing."

But the government advises the public to remain alert.

Officials say there is no proof of a mutation in the virus, but there has been a suggestion that one mutation caused the more serious cases and another caused milder cases, both within the same family of viruses.

In Mexico, some people suffered severe headaches, muscular pain, breathing difficulties and high body temperatures. The victims faced death if not treated swiftly. Others suffered very mild cases and showed little or no symptoms, and recovered without prescription drugs.