My heart went out to this fellow and his family this morning.
23 year old man in the service. Gets sick one day and 10 days later he’s dead. (funny how the example the NYTimes uses in a story titled “Swine Flu Spreading Widely; Worry over Pregnant Women” uses a young and not pregnant man.)
Scientists at the disease centers also looked at lung samples from 77 fatal swine flu cases and found that in about a third of the cases, the patient had died not from flu alone, but from bacteria that infiltrate when flu inflames the lungs.
How can it be that we can’t nurse someone through the flu? What is killing them?
Turns out in many cases it’s bacteria in the lungs. Perhaps because we keep creating superbacteria by killing all the good ones? (Streptococcus pneumoniae is common, is found in HIN1 victims and is becoming resistant) Me – down on antibacterial anything.
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