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Why mexicans have died?
The reason is simple: without information most of sick persons thought that this flu was a simple flu, and we used to underestimate most of the flues. So, the main difference between this swine flu and traditional one (usually we do not have the extreme flu, that one associated to 1918 epidemia). People that did not go to the hospital for this ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by robertoremes on April 30, 2009
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