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why higher lethality in Mexico?
This hybrid influenza would, theoretically, operate in a ''virgin soil'' environment virtually anywhere in the world. The question of it being more deadly IN MEXICO ignores two important factual points (1) the U.S. cases were, for the most part, contracted in Mexico so that those individuals should have experienced similar lethality as that seen ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by mcts on April 30, 2009
flu mortality
The author does an excellent job of explaining how the true mortality of this swine flu is probably very low, but then misses the point entirely when mentioning bird flu. ''Bird flu terrifies infectious disease experts because it kills about half the humans who get it.'' This statement is simply not true. According to CDC studies, a large ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by EvidenceGuy on April 29, 2009