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Swine Flu Could Hit Blacks, Latinos Hardest
August 28th, 2009The alarming news earlier this week that as many as 90,000 people could die from the swine flu this year has even more ominous implications for Blacks and Hispanics, a new Chicago study shows. By looking at 1,500 confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus reported to the Chicago Department of Public Health from late April through late July, researchers found that Blacks and Hispanics were four times more likely than their White counterparts to wind up in the hospital. But the wide disparity likely has very little to do with genetics, experts say. The fact that Blacks and Hispanics suffer disproportionately from diabetes, asthma is more likely the reason for the gap, they say. “We don’t have anything definitive to say one group is more affected than another,” said Dr. Daniel Jernigan of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study relied on a relatively small sample group. Of the 1,500 lab-confirmed swine flu cases, Blacks were hospitalized at a rate of nine per 100,000, Hispanics at eight per 100,000. For Whites, the rate was two per 100,000, according to the study. The Chicago study isn’t the first time race has been mentioned in context with the swine fle. In early August, health officials in Boston found that three-fourths of residents hospitalized with the virus were Black or Hispanic. “It’s very disturbing,” Barbara Ferrer of the Boston Public Health Commission, told The Associated Press. “But intuitively it’s understandable, because we have tremendous inequities in most areas of health,” said Ferrer, the agency’s executive director.
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Yalls bouts to get suckered into paying all kinds of money for this. You can thank obama for wanting to line his white friends pockets with this idea. I hope black america wakes up and realizes that voting for someone just because they be black was not just cute or fun, but it be dumb. And you see how it be costing us now. Taxes is going to skyrocket and these made up vaccines are going to be forced to be paid for by you with his new health plan. I bet most of us blacks are still dumb enough to vote for him again if he ran. I am almost ashamed to be black. Black almost equals “dumb” in america right now.
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