Stories we need to know more about
Is the swine flu affecting Latinos and blacks more? Here is a story from the L.A. Times which suggests that this has been the case.
But the ethnic composition of victims is changing somewhat, Lyn Finelli, head of flu surveillance at the CDC, said at a meeting Thursday. During the spring, Latinos had a disproportionately high number of infections, presumably because of contact with people returning from Mexico, where the virus is thought to have originated.
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Chicago has witnessed a dramatic increase in African refugees. Some of what they have found here has been dismaying to them. This Chicago Tribune story talks about the young Africans caught in the midst of school violence. But there is a bigger question: how are they and their families adjusting and how are they changing the nature of Chicago’s African communities?
Here is the Trib’s story
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This fall, the proportion of Latinos affected has declined, and the number of African Americans infected has grown for reasons that are not clear.
There has been some concern that swine flu is especially severe among Native Americans, but so far the CDC has received reports of only two deaths among that group, Finelli said.
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