An electron microscope image shows an A H1N1 swine flu virus culture obtained from a California patient. (C. S. Goldsmith and A. Balish/Centers for Disease Control/Reuters)From CBC:
One quarter of Americans sick enough to be admitted to hospital with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and seven per cent of them died, the first study of the early months of the global epidemic suggests. That's a little higher than with ordinary seasonal flu, several experts said.
What is striking and unusual is that children and teens accounted for nearly half of the hospitalization cases, including many who were previously healthy. The study did not give a breakdown of deaths by age.
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