Children are twice as likely as adults to catch swine flu, a study says, while dismissing suggestions they are "super-spreaders".
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Archive for December, 2009
It was a year in which health news caught a major dose of swine flu, from its rapid global spread to the rush by scientists to confront it with a vaccine.
It was a year in which health news caught a major dose of swine flu, from its rapid global spread to the rush by scientists to confront it with a vaccine.
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Swine flu raced through a New York high school during the early days of the outbreak last April infecting 35 percent of students in 15 days, a behavior typical of past pandemics, researchers said.
Swine flu peaked in the county Nov. 15 with 104 hospitalized cases. After weeks of steady decline, just 32 hospitalizations were reported for each of the last two weeks ending Dec. 27. Deaths in the county have risen in recent weeks to 17, a fact not surprising to health officials since a person may be sick for weeks before succumbing to the virus.
Young people aged under 18 years are more likely than adults to catch swine flu from an infected person in their household, according to a new study. However, the research also shows that young people are no more likely than adults to infect others with the pandemic H1N1 virus.
How contagious is swine flu? Less than the novel viruses that have caused big world outbreaks in the past, new research suggests. If someone in your home has swine flu,...
Swine flu raced through a New York high school during the early days of the outbreak last April infecting 35 percent of students in 15 days, a behavior typical of past pandemics, researchers said.
( Imperial College London ) Young people aged under 18 years are more likely than adults to catch swine flu from an infected person in their household, according to a new study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. However, the research also shows that young people are no more likely than adults to infect others with the pandemic H1N1 virus.
H1N1 swine flu is less catchy than previous pandemic flu bugs, a household study finds. Only 13% of family members caught the flu from the infected person.