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Its obvious from your faulty logic and irrational conclusions that you have no scientific training at all and that your moronic so called "micro-biologists" don't have a clue what they are saying. Please, leave it to the experts at CDC or WHO. Certainly don't need any racist inflamatory remarks from the peanut gallery.

Texan of TX 1:11PM April 30, 2009

The US imported a very sick tot from Mexico with the flu. Since he has since died, Texas can claim a death from the new flu virus.
I call this the Mexican flu because it is a mixture of the avian, swine & human flu virus. Several old acquaintances involved with micro biology have told me the flu could be a mutated version of the bird flu. Whatever the source one can expect the Mexican government to point the finger at the gringos to the north. Some of the micro biologists have expressed concern that this new virus could continue to mutate and further acclimate itself to the human immune system. From their view it appears to have the ability (though none has been proven) to bore inside & infect a cell & remain dormant until capable of overcoming the immune system, then bursting out. To date it looks like a garden variety flu as far as symptoms & mortality rates are concerned, but has the potential of being far more if it continues to mutate.
However, I am told it can infect pigs, birds or humans and therefore "the Mexican Flu" is the proper name for it.
Ed

Ed H of TX 8:13AM April 30, 2009