Officials Find Swine Flu Hits Minorities Harder : NPR: Young people are more at risk of getting swine flu, and pregnant women, among others, have a higher chance of hospitalization from the new flu. Now public health officials are discovering that blacks and Latinos have a substantially higher risk of both.
It is apparently not because of race or ethnicity, per se; it's because of the social circumstances of many African-Americans and Hispanics.
The new data are from Boston health authorities. Federal health officials are studying flu disparities on a national basis but haven't released numbers yet.
