Swine flu update

[Max2147]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Now why would people in Mexico be more pre-disposed to mortality?

Anyhow I keep hearing this but have yet to see anything about it in the media.

The sample size in Mexico is a lot bigger for this virus. So far the sample size for fatalities in the US is 1.

Here's the media on healthy people being more vulnerable: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/wo.../25mexico.html

"Most of Mexico’s dead were young, healthy adults, and none were over 60 or under 3 years old, the World Health Organization said. That alarms health officials because seasonal flus cause most of their deaths among infants and bedridden elderly people, but pandemic flus — like the 1918 Spanish flu, and the 1957 and 1968 pandemics — often strike young, healthy people the hardest."