I am surprised with so many posters on ATS worried about the swine flu not ONE person has commented on this story, as it seems like it would be of interest to ANYONE that is following the swine flu situation.

Did I post this at the wrong time and it just got buried?

[edit on 13-6-2009 by Sonya610]

That would explain why there is a lot of people in mexico getting swine flu as many of them are indigonous. Feel sorry for them flu sucks I haven't had a good bout of flu in years. The only good thing about flu is it helps to shed a few pounds.

I've actually posted on a lot of threads about this topic. I've wondered about genetic diversity, founder's effect, etc. As we saw in 1918, many Native North Americans saw as high as a 90% rate of mortality from flu. It seems that people who are 'mutts", like me, or many others, take ill, but recover.

It's been true for millenia-The Justinian plague; the Black Death took most of China, most of the middle east, destroyed Sicily, Rome, Sienna, Florence, but not other areas of Italy near Switzerland (well- only 20%, rather than 35-50%).

England, France, Spain, Germany, wiped out- Russia escaped with only about a 15% mortality, as it is (was) comprised of Norse, Asian, Native Siberian, Mongolian, people, etc.

We need to be aware of this- and pharmas do, as well- genotyping might be a key to stopping a mass extincition event.

In the meantime, pray for the Canadian and American Nations and others who are being hit so terribly hard- pray for all.

Its colder up there, which means flu can spread much easier. I doubt this is due to genetics. The people in Mexico died because h3n2 and h2n3 was released at the same time as h1n1.