It would be interesting to know the breakdown on the people who have come down with the swine flu in the U.S. I would think it was across the board with regard to heredity.
Mexico says the World Health Organization has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu by one level, two steps short of declaring a full-blown pandemic
Mexico health department spokesman Carlos Olmos confirms the move.
WHO says the phase 4 alert means sustained human to human transmission causing outbreaks in at least one country. It signals a significant increase in the risk of a global epidemic, but doesn’t mean a pandemic is inevitable.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090427/ap_on_re_us/un_who_swine_flu
New cases in California....the articles noted that these children had not been to Mexico...by why bother when Mexico comes to ya every day!
[Updated at 12:50 p.m.: The Sacramento County public health officer, Dr. Glenna Trochet, said that swine flu had been confirmed in a seventh-grader at St. Mel’s school in Fair Oaks. Three other children at the school had similar symptoms and were being tested, she added. All four had mild cases and recovered or are recovering.]
State officials are trying to confirm what may be the eighth case of swine flu in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today at an impromptu news conference in Beverly Hills.
The latest possible infection involves a seventh-grader in Sacramento. It follows four confirmed cases in San Diego County and three in Imperial County.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/schwarzenegger-flu.html