So who is telling the truth? do you think all of these people had underlying health conditions and the families are angry at how slow the responses have been and are trying to incite fear to get them to move faster to avoid panic (the principal's family have blamed his death on the slow reaction to close the schools) or do you think they're making up the underlying health issues as a way to NOT incite panic?
oh, and he was a stabbing victim. Overweight, stab victim and sleep apnea doesn't sound like a "healthy boy".
all I know is... one 21 year old in Utah recently died. family members say he was severely overweight (which you could tell) and had sleep apnea and another ailiment...
now that they're mad at the hospital because they released him too early... now they're saying he was a healthy boy. No body that big is healthy. I'm sorry but obesity is a health problem in itself
so i'm starting to think this is angry family members trying to incite fear to get things done faster.
lisett
well actually what i think is that they themselfs cant even figure it out there supposed to have a vaxin for that but people are still dying.
Aravyndra
if there were like, 100 cases, with all having underlying health issues, I'd be more concerned.
but as it is, out of thousands of swine flu cases, there have been only 9 deaths... so it's not so hard to believe that they all did have chronic problems of some sort. I mean, if it wasn't for chronic health issues, why just 9 people? if this was killing healthy people, wouldn't there be more seeing there are now over 10,000 confirmed cases?
1. the assistant principal in Queens, from his pictures you could tell he was overweight... and Gout can cause kidney damage. so it's not that far to believe the gout or his size could have attributed to his complications from the flu
2. The husband of that texas teacher who died may have been right, she may have been healthy as a horse, but being pregnant is a health risk during even the normal flu season, as a pregnant woman's immune system is weakened during the pregnancy. so the fact she was pregnant could have attributed to her complications.
3. 13 year olds suffer chronic and dangerous illnesses too. Chronic health issues aren't just for adults. There's asthma, adolescent diabetes, childhood cancers, one student I taught when I was an assistant instructor in Martial arts, was 6 years old and had a heart transplant due to heart disease... at SIX! it's not unheard of for a young person to be chronically and/or seriously ill.
So I honestly don't feel it's that far fetched to say all the current known swine flu related deaths, would be people with underlying health issues.
just remember to wash your hands, take showers, avoid extreme crowds if you can, don't use public bathrooms if possible, if you have to use public restrooms, I'd use disposable gloves, and wipe the seat down with clorox handy wipes. Since I travel a lot, i've been carrying those around with me just in case.
use hand sanitizer that is 60% or more alcohol (anything less than 60 is useless.) and if you're sick, stay home as to not spread whatever you have. Call your doctor if you develop flu symptoms. If it's after hours, don't panic and run to the E.R., you can call after hours/on call doctors or the hospital nurse for advice.
many people want to panic and get tamiflu. problem is, if you don't have the swine flu, you could be taking tamiflu for nothing... and the more you take it, the more resistant you become to it, which means if you need it, it may not work.
follow this advice and you'll be fine.
Melvar_10
The flu, like many other viruses, attacks DIFFERENT people, DIFFERENTLY! Its just doing what a virus does, get someone sick, and hopefully that person will not die. Its all chance, health, genetics, and immunity to the virus.
The First Dragon
Excellent question.
Early reports of the flu from Mexico said that many of the deaths were in healthy adults in the prime of life. Of course statistics were very sketchy at that time; the swine flu had just barely been identified. Many of those who died did not have a laboratory diagnosis, so it isn't certain what they had. And no doubt many many people got sick with flu symptoms and never even went to a doctor, but recovered on their own. So, indications at that time were that this flu had a higher than usual mortality rate, especially among healthy adults. That's disturbingly similar to the 1918 flu.
But once the 2009 flu passed into the US, the picture changed. The mortality rate seemed much lower. Whether that is accurate, I don't know; because a lot depends on how thoroughly the diagnoses and statistics were made; and I'm willing to bet that methods for these are different in the US than in Mexico.
Aside from that, it looks to me like even in the US they are not being too diligent about making a laboratory diagnosis. A lot of people are getting sick and recovering without seeing a doctor; or anyway without a lab test. It's hard to know how many had the 2009 flu. And without knowing that, how can you calculate the mortality rate?
Now it seemed at first that most who died in the US had underlying conditions to weaken them. But as you are saying that some were healthy adults, it may be that the 2009 flu is more dangerous than they have being saying lately.
Frankly, I have to think that they don't know how this will play out. Clearly most people who get the 2009 flu will recover, and most of theme even without treatment. But of those who got sick with the 1918 flu, only 2.5% died; and that included those who died of secondary infections in a time before antibiotics. So even if the 2009 flu were to turn out as bad as the 1918 flu, the death rate would be lower, at least in developed countries. Nothing to panic about.
mrfollis
For now it's a normal (MILD) flu which has a new strain but other than that looks that the yearly flu that we all get or get the chance to get.
Every year many more die from flu and hell if it was like the 1918 flu we'd all be screwed big time.
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