Many people who have died of H1N1 swine flu in the United States have also had bacterial infections, health officials reported on Wednesday.A study of 77 patients who died of the new pandemic H1N1 virus showed 29 percent of them had so called bacterial co-infections, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.About half of these had Streptococcus pneumoniae, which can be prevented with a vaccine, the CDC said. It said doctors may be missing these infections in people severely ill with flu...Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Many swine flu deaths linked with second infection...
Many people who have died of H1N1 swine flu in the United States have also had bacterial infections, health officials reported on Wednesday.A study of 77 patients who died of the new pandemic H1N1 virus showed 29 percent of them had so called bacterial co-infections, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.About half of these had Streptococcus pneumoniae, which can be prevented with a vaccine, the CDC said. It said doctors may be missing these infections in people severely ill with flu...
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