(Editor’s note: I didn’t want to write anything about H1N1 flu, nor read about it. I’ve had enough of H1N1 for a long while. This story was totally Jojo’s writing. @#$@%)
At least four people at Duke Medical center have contracted a rare, drug resistant form of the virus. Three of the patients died, after being treated with Tamiflu, and not responding. All of them reportedly had underlying medical issues that complicated matters as well. It is not known how many other persons developed this mutated strain, or if they are connected in any way.
Scary stuff.
(Editor’s note #2: The flu sucks.)
Sorry dude.
and yes, it sux.
One of my sisters got infected with H1N1 or more commonly known as Swine Flu. Fortunately, she did not have very high fever and she was able to recover fast .
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If you look at the pandemic of 1977, when H1N1 or Swine Flu re-emerged after a 20 year absence, there is no shift in age-related mortality pattern. The 1977 “pandemic” is, of course, not considered a true pandemic by experts today, for reasons that are not entierely consistent. It certainly was an antigenic shift and not an antigenic drift. As far as I have been able to follow the current events, the most significant factor seems to have been that most people, who were severely affected, were people with other medical conditions.