Thursday, October 15, 2009

Near half of swine flu patients otherwise healthy

ATLANTA – The largest U.S. analysis of hospitalized adult swine flu patients has found almost half were healthy people who did not have asthma or any other chronic illnesses before they got sick.Health officials released the surprising results at a news conference on Tuesday, noting that 46 percent of 1,400 hospitalized adults did not have a chronic underlying condition. They have said before that the majority of swine flu patients who develop severe illness have some sort of pre-existing condition, but the new data suggest the majority may be slimmer than was previously thought.A study of 272 hospitalized swine flu patients, released by the New England Journal of Medicine earlier this month, concluded that 83 percent of adults and 60 percent of children had underlying conditions...
PS:More government hype to produce fear in the population that IF YOU DONT TAKE THE VACCINE,you may DIE of SWINE FLU,and its COMPLICATIONS....!!!BEWARE.....!!!!
As in the days of Noah....

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