When swine flu began to
show up last month in North America, the CDC started work analyzing
virus samples from swine flu patients in Mexico to compare against the
viruses extracted from swine flu patients in the US. The two kinds of
swine flu were found to be similar, and different from anything that
had ever been seen before.
Mexico has seen in excess of 60 deaths from the swine flu so far.
Surprisingly, the slain in Mexico are people who were young and
healthy. This confirms the feeling that this virus is a new strain that
has previously never been encountered before by humanity. If it
happened that the flu was slaying the weakest in the population, that
the old or the very young, just the way things happen with normal
seasonal flu, it would be a normal scenario. To have the healthiest
part of the population succumb with their health and their strong
immunities offering no defense against the flu, shows that it is not a
matter of strength or health anymore; it is a matter of a new organism
that the human body has no resistance against yet.
In normal flu, winters are the most troublesome months; with the onset
of summer, the flu virus withers away in the heat. It is beginning to
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