The New York Times examines how Australia ™s Aborigines are more vulnerable to H1N1, after the report last week that Amazonian Indians living in Peru tested positive for H1N1. "Experts say the danger [to aboriginal people] is more likely related to malnutrition, chronic disease and geographic isolation than to genetic differences. Australian Aborigines, for example, are not closely related to Amazonian Indians, but they share the ills of rural poverty," the newspaper states. The article explores recent efforts to contain H1N1 in Aboriginal populations of Australia and the language and cultural barriers that complicate such attempts (Foley/McNeil, 8/15).

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