[Aztlan] Mexico's Flu Epidemic & Possible Maya Correlation

Tue May 12 22:11:51 CDT 2009

What I find surprising about today's release of the "Mexican 
Genetic Diversity Project" is its being publicized as if it unique
and had just occurred in response to Mexico's flu outbreak when it 
could just be a derivative of the "prior" studies that you refer to 
below.

In any case, by itself any genetic relation of the virus to Mexican 
populations without comparative reports on just what the fatality 
incidence from the virus is to Mexican populations outside of 
Mexico City, there can be no real determination.

It appears it was only April first when Mexico City even sent its 
first orders to its federal authorities in Mexico outside of Mexico 
City to report to Mexico City just what was going on outside of 
Mexico City:

BOLETIN URGENTE

http://www.canacintrayucatan.org.mx/

http://snipurl.com/hwrjg

 From nearly the beginning of the outbreak, I thought and posted 
elsewhere on the I-Net that the CDC's suspicions that there could 
be a direct genetic link accounting for the high fatality rate 
among Mexicans was premature without receipt of such report as 
Mexico City still awaits or, if in receipt of reliable reports, has 
yet to compile and publish.

What if such reports indicate a fatality incidence among Mexicans 
outside of Mexico City to be significantly less than the fatality 
incidence of those Mexicans within Mexico City?

Two weeks ago NOVA had a program describing the condition of the 
U.S.'s water. In relation to the poisoning of the Columbia, 
investigators searched for the source of the known poison. For 
years they combed valleys and mountains upstream to, in the end, 
find the source right under their noses on an airstrip in Seattle.

Being the lake it once was and the cistern for potable water it 
extensively remains, Mexico City's very foundation is what has to 
be also the world's largest septic tank.

Mexico City has been experiencing a prolonged drought. And, for 
this reason and just prior to the outbreak, Mexico City had cut off 
the city's water supply to "20%" of the city's 
population---4,000,000 people---with no reports that even to this 
day the water supply has been restored.

During very dry conditions, as the city has been experiencing, the 
percolate from this source becomes dry and airborne admixing to the 
city's already monumental smog. A fetid percolate that settles and 
can reside in the lungs. Mexico City's population already suffers 
most lethally from upper respiratory ailments and, next, from 
severe diarrhea. Not unlike the symptoms of this flu.

While not necessarily accounting for the origin of the flu, 
certainly accounting for a vulnerability particular to, not 
Mexicans per se, rather than Mexico City's residents.

Residents particularly vulnerable, during prolonged droughts, from 
essentially a fouled water cistern.

Which, aside from how this perspective may assist Mexico to solve 
its present problem, brings us to just what may have happened to 
the pre-Conquest Maya, themselves dependent on porous, subterranean 
water supplies that at times could stagnate or as stagnating and 
porous man-made cisterns.

In Punta Laguna, I recall the first time I saw a Mayan toilet. 
Prior, I presumed the people there were relieving themselves 
wherever nature could provide sufficient distance and cover from 
the village.

It turned out to be a short sling upon which one sits over the 
surface slit of a naturally occurring well not ten yards from a 
section of Punta Laguna's lakeshore where the villagers took their 
water. 

They too were especially vulnerable to "la gripe" and diarrhea. In 
fact so constantly inflicted by both that it wouldn't take much of 
anything else at all to knock them down for good.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jaime Andres Pretell" <jaime_pretell at hotmail.com>
> To: "John Pastore" <jpastore at email.com>
> Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Flu Study Indicates A Genetic History of Mexico
> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:47:51 -0400
> 
> 
> I'm not surprised at all. From prior studies:
> 
>       Arizona
>      68% Euro
>      29% Indi
>      3% Afro
> 
>       Colorado
>      62% Euro
>      35% Indi
>      3% Afro
> 
>       Nueva Leon
>      59% Euro
>      31% Indi
>      10% Afro
> 
>       Mexican Americans overall
>      58% Euro
>      39% Indi
>      4% Afro
> 
>       Jalisco
>      56% Euro
>      43% Indi
>      1% Afro
> 
>       California
>      46% Euro
>      43% Indi
>      11% Afro
> 
>       Saltillo
>      45% Euro
>      52% Indi
>      3% Afro
> 
>       Merida
>      43% Euro
>      51% Indi
>      6% Afro
> 
>       DF
>      41% Euro
>      56% Indi
>      3% Afro
> 
>       Veracruz
>      35% Euro
>      39% Indi
>      26% Afro
> 
>       Nevada
>      34% Euro
>      58% Indi
>      8% Afro
> 
>       Puebla
>      33% Euro
>      57% Indi
>      10% Afro
> 
>       Oaxaca
>      30% Euro
>      68% Indi
>      2% Afro
> 
>       Tamahihua
>      29% Euro
>      31% Indi
>      40% Afro
> 
>       Tlaxcala
>      17% Euro
>      76% Indi
>      7% Afro
> 
>       Tlapa
>      1% Euro
>      98% Indi
>      1% Afro
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Studies that only focused on Indigenous/Euro
> 
> 
> 
> Nueva Leon 21.5%-Indi, 78.5%-Euro
> 
> 
> 
> In a study of nine indigenous groups on the east coast of Mexico 
> (non Spanish speakers) the European contribution fluctuated from 9 
> to 37%-Euro from:
> 
> Huasteca 63%-Indi, 37%-Euro to Huichol 91%-Indi, 9%-Euro
> 
> 
> 
> In a study of Mexican Americans by neighborhood income:
> 
> Low Income neighborhoods 46%-Indi, 54%-Euro
> 
> Middle Class 27%-Indi, 73%-Euro
> 
> High Income 18%-Indi, 82%-Euro
> 
> Similar study in Texas found:
> 
> Barrio: 43.8%-Indi, 56.2 Euro
> 
> Transitional: 30%-Indi, 70%-Euro
> 
> Suburb: 18.7%-Indi, 81%-Euro
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Pastore" <jpastore at email.com>
> To: <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:00 PM
> Subject: [Aztlan] Flu Study Indicates A Genetic History of Mexico
> 
> 
> > Mexican genomes show wide diversity
> > May 11, 2009 10:51 PM (17 hrs ago) By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP
> >
> > Excerpt:
> >
> > "The mestizos studied were from Sonora, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, 
> > Guerrero, Veracruz and Yucatan. In addition the research included 
> > 30 Zapotecos from Oaxaca.
> >
> > They found genomes closer to Europeans in northern states and 
> > closer to American Indians in southern areas. Indications of 
> > African ancestry were low in most areas, though a few individuals 
> > had high levels of African genes. Mestizos from Yucatan were the 
> > only ones with a detectable Maya influence."
> >
> > 
> http://www.examiner.com/a-2010345~Mexican_genomes_show_wide_diversity.html?cid=rss-Science
> > http://snipurl.com/hw6ln
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