Saturday, June 27, 2009

H1N1 cases in the USA pass 1 million

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now estimate that over one million people in the USA have been infected with H1N1 and of those 127 have died. That would make the infection death rate 0.000127%, so obviously most of those cases have been mild. Confirmed cases around the world continue to rise but it seems that this pandemic is far reaching but not that serious. The NY Times is suggesting that 500,000 in that city alone could have been infected based on flu cases in the public school system.

Are we concerned about H1N1 in Mexico - NO. Are we concerned about the poverty of the migrant workers we are going to visit and the lack of general health care that they have - YES.

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