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In response to "you cannot talk swine flu while I'm at lunch! -- nm" by loosilu

OK. So, yes, officials are puzzled why there are more deaths in Mexico and why it is killing adults in their prime.

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu) Apr 28 '09, 10:35

it's perplexing because that's not the normal pattern.

As for international travel, that certainly can bring the virus into the city. But once it arrives and starts spreading from person to person, you expect it to hit the immunocompromised.

This is the same pattern that was seen in the 1918 flu. The theory as to why that flu hit young adults the hardest is that older people had probably been exposed to a milder version of a related strain during an outbreak many decades earlier.

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My theory ... - Beryllium Apr 28, 10:37 6
- hang on, let me clarify. Mexico is where the immunocompromised have not been hit. -- nm - loosilu Apr 28, 10:39 1
  - Ah, I see. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 10:46
- That's not the pattern you normally see. Usually they will get it first. -- nm - loosilu Apr 28, 10:38 3
  - well, the whole "no one has died outside of mexico yet" thing made me think that normal-immuno-people were bringing it in -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 10:46 2
    - simpler explanation: The strain in Mexico is a substrain. -- nm - loosilu Apr 28, 10:50 1
      - And this is why I said I'd like to hear theories from experts. -- nm - mara Apr 28, 11:06

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OK. So, yes, officials are puzzled why there are more deaths in Mexico and why it is killing adults in their prime.

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