The Late Barbara Davis, Age 48
The CDC concurs. The Swine Flu is becoming more virulent: a recent report from Milwaukee reads like books on the 1918 pandemic-swift, deadly and attacking healthy young people:
“Barbara Davis, 48, was healthy just a week ago. She had dinner with her mother Josephine last Friday night. But just hours after that dinner, Josephine got a phone call.“My friend, he called me and told me Barbara was real sick. And I said, “Well, she wasn’t sick when I left, so what’s the matter?” Josephine Davis said.
Barbara told her mother that she was ok. But the next day, things got worse. She had trouble breathing, and she was shaking. She could barely walk into the hospital.“She tried to talk to people, but she just couldn’t talk,” Josephine Davis said.Doctors treated her for two days, but they couldn’t save her. They believe she died from swine flu. {Authorities confirm a healthy adult died of swine flu but not that Barbara specifically is that person}
“They’ve never seen nothing like that, what she had. That infection just went through her body, attacking her kidney, her lungs, her liver. Everything,” said Josephine Davis.”
“More than 1,800 people have caught swine flu in Milwaukee alone. The city’s Health Department is stressing that if you are mildly ill with flu symptoms, you should call your doctor. If your symptoms are serious or if you have mild symptoms that are getting worse, you should see a doctor right away.”
CDC Press Conference, June 11:
“We continue to see a disproportionate amount of illness in
hospitalizations. Younger people compared with the elderly. With seasonal
influenza, in a typical year we see a lot more disease in the elderly. But
in some ways this Novel H1N1 virus is behaving somewhat like the seasonal
H1N1 viruses which tend to affect younger people and not the elderly so
much. The H3 viruses, the influenza H3 viruses tend to affect the elderly
and often are quite severe there. In other respects, of course, this virus
isn’t like the seasonal H1N1 because we don’t think there’s general
population protection. It is a very new virus. 57% of the cases that we’re
having reported to us occur in people 5 to 24 years of age, and 41% of the
hospitalizations are in that same age group — the older children and young
adults. But I also want to tell you about the rates, the cases per 100,000
population, and let you know that the highest rates of hospitalization are
actually in children under 5. And the next highest rates are in those
people 5 to 24. So it looks like this is a virus that’s disproportionately
affecting younger people but there are still lots of infections and
hospitalizations in older persons. According to the U.S. statistics, 71% of
the hospitalized patients have occurred in people who have an underlying
condition — respiratory illness like asthma or conic obstructive pulmonary
disease, immune deficiencies, and so forth. As we have noted, there’s been
a disproportionate amount of pregnant women among those who have had
infection.”
http://www.cdc.gov/media/transcripts/2009/t090611.htm
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