Poverty, pollution, the high altitude would all be contributing factors to the Mexico deaths, although it's interesting that the Mexican fatalities are seemingly all young people (which were also the main demographic of the Spanish Flu but many of those were soldiers returning from WW1) whereas in North America and elsewhere it's the more traditional demographic (the very young and very old and chronically ill).
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Date: 2009-04-29 06:30 pm (UTC)