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The state epidemiologist urged parents to seek urgent care if children's symptoms worsen.
The previous child fatality in Minnesota, which occurred in July, also involved an otherwise healthy child. That 2-year-old died because of a co-occurring bacterial infection -- pneumococcus, which causes pneumonia, said Dr. Ruth Lynfield, Minnesota state epidemiologist.
Alone, it's not usually dangerous in someone who is healthy. But the flu virus opens a door, allowing the non-threatening agent to overwhelm the body and become lethal. It's the combination of the two that often kills otherwise healthy children and adults.
If symptoms worsen, act
"That's why we tell people who get the flu that if they are getting better and then symptoms get worse with high fever and bad cough, they should seek care right away," Lynfield said.
Originally posted by unityemissions
reply to post by nikiano
Excuse my ignorance, would auto-immune diseases eventually cause a body to be immunocompromised? I went to a free std clinic years ago, after having unprotected sex and getting what I now think was just a yeast infection. I chugged a gallon of cranberry juice after a half-day of agony and it went away. Anyways, at the clinic they were giving out free hep-b vaccines. I took it like a moron, and ever since I swear my immune system is weakened.
I had blood work which confirmed my slightly compromised T-cell count. I don't recall the value, only that it was just below the low mark for normal range. This is also considering I take grams of vitamin-c daily, and drink green tea, and herbal teas daily. I don't get sick after taking these things daily for the last year, but before was constantly getting colds.
Could this hep-b vaccine have caused my weakened immune system?
Originally posted by marg6043
reply to post by eradown
Is not conspiracies is just that many people in the younger generation doesn't remember the big pandemic of 76.
That all, history repeats itself and no always is in a very nice way.
Originally posted by marg6043
reply to post by Chevalerous
Is call pneumonia and will hit you if you have the swine flu even if you are healthy, so research more on the complications of the swine flu with pneumonia and make sure that you don't get too late to the doctors office.
Plain and simple.
BTW pneumonia can hit you with swine flu or not and it causes death yearly in the US.
Overview of Pneumonia in Healthcare Settings
Pneumonia has accounted for approximately 15% of all hospital-associated infections and
27% and 24% of all infections acquired in the medical intensive-care unit (ICU) and coronary care unit, respectively. It has been the second most common hospital-associated infection after that of the urinary tract. For hospital-associated pneumonia, attributable mortality rates of 20%-33% have been reported. The primary risk factor for the development of hospital-associated bacterial pneumonia is mechanical ventilation (with its requisite endotracheal intubation). See Ventilator-associated pneumonia
Mortality
•Number of deaths: 55,477
•Deaths per 100,000 population: 18.5
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2006, tables 10, 11
•Percent of hospital inpatient deaths from pneumonia: 5.4%
Originally posted by marg6043
CDC in Pneumonia,
Overview of Pneumonia in Healthcare Settings
Pneumonia has accounted for approximately 15% of all hospital-associated infections and
27% and 24% of all infections acquired in the medical intensive-care unit (ICU) and coronary care unit, respectively. It has been the second most common hospital-associated infection after that of the urinary tract. For hospital-associated pneumonia, attributable mortality rates of 20%-33% have been reported. The primary risk factor for the development of hospital-associated bacterial pneumonia is mechanical ventilation (with its requisite endotracheal intubation). See Ventilator-associated pneumonia
www.cdc.gov...
Mortality
•Number of deaths: 55,477
•Deaths per 100,000 population: 18.5
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2006, tables 10, 11
•Percent of hospital inpatient deaths from pneumonia: 5.4%
www.cdc.gov...
Pneumonia kills more people in the US that the seasonal flu does and the thing is that is a vaccine available for bacterial pneumonia.
The swine flu will not kill you, but the complications of pneumonia if not treated in time will.
Originally posted by total newbie
Get some Vitamin D in you and don't worry.
All nutrients (eg. vitamins A,B,C,D, zinc and magnesium) that have any positive health impact on the body will be deemed illegal in therapeutic doses under Codex....
www.caduceus.info/articles/A001.pdf