Anyone know the ages and health conditions of Mexicans killed by Swine Flu? Also if the Mexicans had a vaccine or treatment would it be probable that they would live?
Does Anyone Know The Ages And Health Conditions Of The Mexicans Killed By Swine Flu?
September 29th, 2009 by flufacts Leave a reply »1 comment
Regular flu kills 36,000 people a year in the United States and estimated 375,000 worldwide, About 90 percent of those deaths are among people older than 65 who already have health problems and cause their underlying disease to decompensate and then they don’t have the reserves to fight the regular virus. Peoples are worried about the new swine flu outbreak because many of those who died in Mexico have been young and otherwise healthy individual.
There is a similarity between the swine flu epidemic centered in Mexico City and the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918-19. Infants and elderly were spared. It was the young adults with robust immune systems that were the prime victims and the disease took them literally by storm. What happens with young and healthy patients is that their immune systems react so strongly that they can triggers something known as a “cytokine storm”.