Swine flu most lethal for targeting healthy, working-age individuals?!

[insomnia]

I was reading a Mexican newspaper on the Swine Flu outbreak, and noticed something disconcerting:

"la “incidencia de los casos graves” involucra a personas en edad productiva, de entre 20 y 50 años de edad."

In other words, seemingly healthy, productive people without weakened immune systems who aren't the typical fatality victims of the flu appear

Comments

[insomnia]

I understand that, but it's kind of splitting hairs. In Mexico, it's got about a 7% fatality level. Here, I suspect it would be less, but it's not something that should be treated like any other flu.

[robby]

There are probably unreported flu deaths in Mexico, very sick people that don't make it to the hospital and for whom there is no official cause of death.

[robby]

Well, anyway it's serious enough for me to stop with the swine jokes.

[putzicus]

You mean like this one?
Avian DNA + Swine Flu = When Pigs Fly Flu