Anyone else notice the Swine Flu only kills Mexicans?

Bud Frosty

Bud Frosty

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SikSol said:
Has anyone else other than me noticed that so far the Swine Flu has only killed mexicans? Even in the US the only victim so far was a young mexican girl. Hrm.. purposly engineered virus to attack a certain genetic attribute in Mexicans? A virus release by some government or organization to rid the world of most mexicans??? .........Dum, Dum, Dum.... and a new consperiacy theory starts lol.
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The rest of us wash our hands occasionally.
 
LedZeppelin8906

LedZeppelin8906

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The reason it started in Mexico is because of alot of biological and environmental reasons, the living conditions are horrible combined with a high denisity of population (8,836,045 Mexicans in only 1,485 square km, which is about 5,950 People per Square Kilometer) and a poor healthcare system thus A H1N1 is born out of need of the environment to re-establish populations to meet that environment's carrying capacity. (I'm just using Mexico City as an example, i'm not sure where the point of origin of swine flu is) Therefore, Swine Flu is just a Regulating Factor for Carrying Capacity.

Carrying Capacity -


The carrying capacity of a biological species in an environment is the population size of a species that the environment can sustain in the long term, given the food, habitat, water and other necessities available in the environment. For the human population, more complex variables such as sanitation and medical care are sometimes considered as part of the necessary infrastructure.

Regulating Factor -



In population ecology, a regulating factor is something that keeps a population at equilibrium (neither increasing nor decreasing in size over time). All regulating factors are densityhttps://www.rollitup.org/wiki/Density-dependent, meaning they keep populations at equilibrium by counteracting fluctuations in population size.
Examples are Food supply, water supply, prevalence of communicable diseases etc
 
Johnnyorganic

Johnnyorganic

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Benassi said:
Strike that

"It's because they can't afford anything"

There we go.
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Eleven Americans, ranging in age from 9 to 50, have come down with swine flu, the Associated Press reports: "All those people either recovered or are recovering; at least two were hospitalized."

In Mexico, however, the toll has been much worse. "About 70 deaths out of roughly 1,000 cases represents a fatality rate of about 7 percent," the AP notes. This is far higher than the 2.5% fatality rate from the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-19, although the latter was many orders of magnitude more widespread, killing 40 million people world-wide.

"The Mexican rate sounds terrifying," the AP writes. "But it's possible that far more than 1,000 people have been infected with the virus and that many had few if any symptoms." Which is somewhat, though not entirely, reassuring.

The AP dispatch is titled "Swine Flu Worse in Mexico Than US, but Why?" There's no definitive answer, but here's one of the possibilities:
Access to medical care has been an issue in Asia, where a rare bird flu--which does not spread easily from person-to-person--has killed more than 200 over the last several years. Maybe Mexican patients have also had trouble getting medical care or antiviral drugs, some have speculated--even though the government provides health care.​
Wouldn't this paragraph make more sense if it ended ". . . because the government provides health care"?
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http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB124085154600159863.html
 
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