Reply #83: only 26 have been confirmed from the same strain

[bobbert]

there is no proof yet that all of those people died of the same strain of the virus. right now it is still only a locally spreading disease. it seems like # of cases has been going down, not up. Although the disease has spread quickly, and to young adults, there's no proof anywhere that this has higher than the typical 1.5% mortality rate of a typical flu... it's just different. I'll pass it on as more serious than a regular flu when people who live in a clean city with access to good health care have a problem (not poor people in Mexico City, where 1/2 of the city hasn't had running water for days prior to this outbreak).