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Published 11/04/2009 by Time


Swine Flu: H1N1 Hits the Young, but Riskier for the Old

As the number of H1N1 cases continues to climb in the U.S., researchers are collecting more and more data on the spread of the pandemic flu and getting a clearer picture of its victims $ who is most vulnerable to H1N1, how the most severe cases progress and...

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(CIDRAP News) - A study of California's most severely ill patients during the first 16 weeks of the novel H1N1 pandemic is in line with other recent studies that ... - [11/04/2009 - Centre For Infectious Disease Research and Policy]

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...life-threatening. "The major point of our findings is that there has been a lot of perception that this is a mild disease, and a lot of people may be ambivalent about vaccination" says Dr. Janice Louie...
Swine Flu: H1N1 Hits the Young, but Riskier for the Old [Time - 11/04/2009]
...lead author. "But for those patients who were hospitalized, 30% required intensive care. This is something that clinicians should be aware of when patients walk into their clinic or office with signs of flu."
Swine Flu: H1N1 Hits the Young, but Riskier for the Old [Time - 11/04/2009]
...influenza. "A lot of us are puzzling over this, because this is not a trend with seasonal influenza in the limited studies that have been done in that area" says Louie...
Swine Flu: H1N1 Hits the Young, but Riskier for the Old [Time - 11/04/2009]

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