Uruguayan President: Deadly Flu to Cause Higher Fiscal Deficit
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The Influenza A/H1N1 will lead to bigger fiscal deficit of governments around the world, Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez was quoted as saying by local media on Thursday.
"The fiscal deficit of our government and most governments in the world will be affected, there is no doubt," Vazquez said in an interview with weekly "Busqueda."
The spread of the flu lowered the values of airline stocks and impacted the tourism industry, Vazquez said.
The epidemic must be added to the international financial crisis and the climate change, which "justify the government to end with a fiscal deficit, which would not have existed if there were not this inconvenient," the president said.
The Uruguayan Public Health Ministry said Wednesday the country had not registered suspicious cases of human infection of the H1N1 flu.
(Xinhua News Agency May 1, 2009)