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To: LindyBill who wrote (302777)	4/26/2009 5:37:35 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 793537

Exactly. Reasons for the Mexico City cases being so much more severe than the current US cases are that Mexico City's air is incredibly polluted. Plus, the city is at a very high altitude [7300 ft.; Denver, by comparison, is 5280 ft.] so that respiration is more difficult under any circumstances. Sanitation? Well, it is the Third World. And lots of people still smoke. Anyway, there are lots of things that would make Mexicans much more susceptible to a nasty case of the flu that don't have anything to do with us or the virus.