Comments on: Piggie Pandemic Potentially Pending? http://www.medminded.com/2009/04/piggie-pandemic-potentially-pending.html Musings on Health, Medicine, and the Art Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:34:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Aaron B Hicks http://www.medminded.com/2009/04/piggie-pandemic-potentially-pending.html/comment-page-1#comment-33 Aaron B Hicks Sun, 10 May 2009 17:30:15 +0000 http://www.medminded.com/2009/04/piggie-pandemic-potentially-pending.html#comment-33 From your link: "...current estimates show all but one of the swine flu deaths were confined to Mexico, and all but a few of those were in Mexico City. Why? Rampant poverty, for one... it just struck a particularly vulnerable population." Poverty is a huge perpetuator of pandemics. Hisotricaly, those with the lowest incomes have been hit the hardest. These same populations are dying from preventable diseases every year as well. It's no wonder the death toll was higher in Mexico. From your link: “…current estimates show all but one of the swine flu deaths were confined to Mexico, and all but a few of those were in Mexico City. Why? Rampant poverty, for one… it just struck a particularly vulnerable population.”

Poverty is a huge perpetuator of pandemics. Hisotricaly, those with the lowest incomes have been hit the hardest.

These same populations are dying from preventable diseases every year as well. It’s no wonder the death toll was higher in Mexico.

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