* Names Dominic Addesso as CFO effective May 8 Stocks * Addesso succeeds Craig Eisenacher May 7 Reuters – Everest Re Group

* Names Dominic Addesso as CFO, effective May 8 Stocks * Addesso succeeds Craig Eisenacher May 7 (Reuters) – Everest Re Group Ltd (RE.N), one of thelargest Bermuda reinsurers, named Dominic Addesso as chieffinancial officer, effective May 8. “This is going to teach us a new cleaning protocol that can only benefit us in the medium and long term.”That would be welcome news for foreign tourists who are susceptible to “Moctezuma’s Revenge,” the Mexican version of traveler’s diarrhea, and for the Mexican public.Good hygiene can reduce the risk of all sorts of infections from common colds and pneumonia to gastrointestinal infections that kill thousands of Mexicans a year.(Additional reporting by Noe Torres and Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Eric Beech) France Mexico Swine Flu. Once inside, visitors were made to wash their hands with sanitized gel — for the third time.”The museum has been scrubbed from top to bottom,” said Benito Taibo, chief spokesman for Mexico’s National Anthropology Institute.”This is going to transform the culture, of course,” said Francisco de Souza, chief spokesman for Mexico City’s public transportation network, which moves 5 million passengers a day. Then, a doctor in a white coat asked whether they had flu symptoms and made them put on a flimsy cloth mask.

Outside, officials in blue surgical gowns obliged visitors to fill out health questionnaires. [nN07397054]But at Mexico City’s world-renowned National Anthropology Museum, which reopened on Thursday, employees painstakingly wiped down every article and book on sale in the gift shop with disinfectant.Authorities required three separate health checks to get inside. “The whole thing was a bunch of bull.”CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONPoor neighborhoods, such as the slum of Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl on the edge of the capital where water taps run dry, struggled with the flu hygiene measures. They’re so uncomfortable,” said taco vendor Jacobo Hernandez, 25. Food handlers cleaved chunks of goat meat and fresh fruit with bare hands.”We stopped using them (masks and gloves) yesterday. In a pedestrian tunnel beneath a Mexico City highway, none of the workers at 10 food stands used surgical masks. Within days every train, station, handrail, ticket counter and stairway was disinfected, officials said.When restaurants reopened on Wednesday after a five-day national lockdown of non-essential businesses, customers were triple-cleansed at some establishments with a shot of hand sanitizer followed by an obligatory hand-wash where a bathroom attendant applied one final blast of alcohol to the palms.But that was at upscale establishments.

It has been an important lesson for society,” said Dr Pablo Kuri, an adviser to Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova.The swine flu virus has killed at least 44 people in Mexico and two in the United States and infected more than 2,000 people in 24 countries, triggering fears of a pandemic.The scouring started in Mexico City’s subway on April 23, the same day health officials warned of a possible epidemic, when metro workers doubled their cleaning schedules and handed out millions of surgical masks and doses of anti-bacterial hand sanitizers. France  |  Mexico  |  Swine FluIn a country where poverty often prevents basic hygiene and many people wrongly believe a shot of tequila or a squeeze of lime juice will kill microbes, a sudden and urgent education in epidemiology is taking hold.”This is breaking with a paradigm I think there will be a change. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico is scrubbing itself clean to battle the new H1N1 flu, taking unprecedented precautions in restaurants, public transport and museums that officials hope will take hold once the health crisis passes. For the alerts, double click on [ID:nWNAB6037] (Reporting by Mary Meyase in Bangalore; Editing by JarshadKakkrakandy) Stocks Global Markets.

Shares of the company closed at $7.54 Thursday on the NewYork Stock Exchange. The company expects second quarter consolidated revenue todecline sequentially by about 20 percent. Earnings-per-share included $3.78 of non-cash goodwill andother intangible asset impairment charges, 5 cents ofrestructuring charges and 2 cents of non-recurring legal costs,the company said Revenue fell 15 percent to $250 million. For the quarter ended March 31, net loss was $121.8million, or $3.74 a share, compared with a net income of $8.7million, or 26 cents a share, a year ago Excluding items, thecompany earned 11 cents a share. * Q1 loss $3.74/shr vs EPS $0.26 last year Stocks  |  Global Markets * Q1 rev down 15 pct to $250 mln * Sees Q2 rev fall 20 pct sequentially May 7 (Reuters) – AMN Healthcare Services Inc (AHS.N), thelargest healthcare staffing company in the U.S., posted aquarterly loss, hurt by certain charges and forecast asequential fall in revenue for the next quarter. Additional information about the Los Angeles Times isavailable at Los Angeles TimesNancy Sullivan, Copyright Business Wire 2009. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times, has been covering SouthernCalifornia for over 126 years and is part of Tribune Company, one of thecountry`s leading media companies with businesses in publishing, the Internetand broadcasting.

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