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To: Caramelgal
this strain seems so far to infect the younger and healthier

Why do you think this is? Perhaps it's striking the working ages who tend to be out in public areas and have more person to person contact. I suspect we'll start seeing it move into the elderly and children before too long.

147 posted on 04/25/2009 9:01:41 AM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: bgill
this strain seems so far to infect the younger and healthier

This was also true of the 1918 pandemic, one reason it was so devastating.

One of the present theories is that the flu turns the body's own immune system against the body. Young, healthy adults with a strong immune system are therefore more susceptible than children and older people.

161 posted on 04/25/2009 9:12:05 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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