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Swine flu worse in Mexico than US, but why?
AP (via MyWay) ^
| Apr 25, 2009
| MIKE STOBBE
Posted on 04/25/2009 6:30:14 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:30:14 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo
Swine flu worse in Mexico than US, but why? No U.S. Emergency Rooms to parasitize.
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:33:25 PM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
(Chains you can believe in.)
To: Mr. Mojo
Could be an ironic situation that the Mexicans are acclimated to more bugs e.g. their immunity to Montezuma’s Revenge. Some viruses will provoke cytokine storms in particularly robust immune systems.
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:33:35 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
To: Mr. Mojo
Gee, maybe we have first-world health care, and they have third-world health care?
Nah, too obvious...
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:33:37 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: FormerACLUmember
Like what would you get if you did? Only known remedy is Tamiflu, and both Mexico and US have scads of it.
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:34:49 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
To: Mr. Mojo
ccess 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.Well that is shocking.
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:34:53 PM PDT
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: Mr. Mojo
We’ve had seven confirmed cases in US and supposedly a 7% mortality rate in Mexico.
Statistically, you’d need 14 cases here before you’d expect a death.
That’s not exactly how the math works, but the point is we still have too small a sample to decide the US version is less lethal.
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:35:58 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
To: Mr. Mojo
Why would anyone ask such an incredibly stupid question? Only if the reverse were true would it be a question worth pondering.
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:36:05 PM PDT
by
eclecticEel
("Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.' " - T. Sowell)
To: dirtboy
Along with other things like basic hygiene and living conditions, overall health of the populace, etc
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:36:26 PM PDT
by
Mom MD
(Jesus is the Light of the world!)
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To: Mr. Mojo
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:38:05 PM PDT
by
TornadoAlley3
(Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
To: Mr. Mojo
Just guessing here but if they died of severe pneumonia, isn’t that a reflection of the sanitary conditions inside hospitals? I once read that pneumonia is the biggest killer in hospitals where the infection that killed patients wasn’t from the original diagnosis and the reason was lack of proper sanitation.
Warning: I’m not a doctor or even associated with medicine in any way but I did stay at a HIE last night.
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:38:52 PM PDT
by
saganite
(What would Sully do?)
To: Mr. Mojo
To: HiTech RedNeck
"Some viruses will provoke cytokine storms in particularly robust immune systems. Isn't that a suspected reason for the death rate of the 1918 Spanish flu?
To: Mr. Mojo
Mexico has socialized medicine?
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:40:29 PM PDT
by
NavVet
( If you don't defend Conservatism in the Primaries, you won't have it to defend in November)
To: Big_Monkey
Isn't that a suspected reason for the death rate of the 1918 Spanish flu? Yes. Much like this outbreak, the 1918 flu killed mostly the 20-45 age group.
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:42:08 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Could be an ironic situation that the Mexicans are acclimated to more bugs e.g. their immunity to Montezumas Revenge.The experts are saying America's exposure to the H1 portion of the bug means the population has antibodies that may fight this adaptation better.
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:43:01 PM PDT
by
Glenn
(Free Venezuela!)
To: Sherman Logan
I've read that the BBC is reporting there are actually thousands of cases of this flu and about 200 deaths. That puts it into the statistical norm for a bad flu strain.
Not enough cases in the US yet to have statistics support any deaths by percentage of ill.
I'm believing very little from anyone about now. We do like to color up a story don't we?
Always have at least 21 days of food, pet food, water, medicines, ammo, etc. ready for storms, pandemics, etc.
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:46:48 PM PDT
by
USCG SimTech
(Honored to serve since '71)
To: Mr. Mojo
Because the medical system in Mexico, well.... sucks.
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:47:02 PM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: All; NavVet; Mr. Mojo
"Mexico has socialized medicine?" Why would people leave a country with "free" healthcare for the only major industrialized country without it? I thought utopia consisted of socialized medicine, high tax rates for the "wealthy", welfare payments for the shiftless and government control of everything...
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posted on
04/25/2009 6:48:24 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
("The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible." Machiavelli)
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