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Sun Apr-26-09 02:19 PM
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14. Maybe Mexico has more antibiotic-resistant pneumonia strains?

The more lethal forms of flu result in a over-active immune response in lung tissues. From news reports, it appears that the patients are actually dieing from pneumonia which follows lung damage.

So maybe the chain of causation is:

- get the flu,

- immune response to flu damages lungs requiring hospitalization,

- contract drug-resistant pneumonia propagating in hospital settings in Mexico,

- die of pneumonia.

Note that pneumonia can be caused by multiple kinds of bacteria and other microorganisms.

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