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Friday, June 19, 2009

Is lack of vitamin D linked to swine flu?

Scotland has a disproportionately high number of swine flu cases.
There could be a simple reason
Melanie Reid

It was all very predictable, I suppose, that when the first UK death from someone suffering from swine flu came, it did not come from St Ives or St Andrews. Jacqueline Fleming lived on a rundown council estate in Glasgow; she came from the other Scotland, the bleak one we garland with jokes and statistics but ultimately prefer to ignore. Click here for the rest of the article...

Note from Andrea: This article from Europe intriged me, it's interesting to think how getting the majority of this country on adequate doses of Vitamin D could affect the overall flu and illness rate in the winter months. Just something to think about.

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