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H1N1 Now 'Unstoppable'
The threat hasn't abated: The World Health Organization Tuesday gave the green light to drug makers to start manufacturing vaccines for the H1N1 flu, which will go to doctors, nurses, and other technicians first. Calling the illness "unstoppable," the WHO is pressuring all countries to administer vaccinations—as well as to continue vaccinating against seasonal flu, which kills anywhere between 250,000 and 500,000 people globally per year. Countries are asked to decide who gets priority after doctors, but new studies may help make the decision as the virus is found to affect the younger population and the severely obese. About nine out of 10 patients treated for the flu in an intensive care unit were obese, and had unusual symptoms such as blood clots in their lungs, making obesity a risk factor for severe reaction to the strain. Another study found that the blood of people born before 1920 carries the antibodies needed to fight off the 1918 flu strain (of the 1918 pandemic), adding a level of immunity to the swine flu, a distant cousin.
MaliciousDisorder
YES WE CAN, What a great way to control Aids..
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spinozareader
What? Since the virus seems most lethal to the obese, the very young and, often, the otherwise healthy what's "great way to control Aids.." business about?
MaliciousDisorder
It kills off the weak and stupid
spinozareader
Malicious
If that were true, then you certainly ought to have succumbed to H1N1 by this late date.
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shortcourse
H1N1?? We had the asian & hong kong flu... didn't this one come from mexico...hence mexican flu?
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