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Originally posted by badgerprints[...]This is a laymans understanding of it but here goes.
The body, in an effort to protect its self, produces a massive amount of protective cells that literally attack the virus in the lungs but attack everyting else along with it by causing massive inflamation. The black part is dried and crusted blood after the lungs have lost their protective inner lining. This is due to unregulated defenses. [...]
Originally posted by ecoparity
Strange as it sounds the stronger the immune system worse the cytokine storm damage is. It might be a good time to take up smoking and junk food until the pandemic passes? (kidding but the immune respone inverse is actually true).
If the mutations virologists think have happened did indeed happen it won't matter, the swine flu will be much better at infecting the deeper part of the lungs which will lead to cytokine storm and if you survive that, pneumonia.
The Dr's in Ukraine have said that "if you were infected you died". I can't say that is true but it sounds very, very bad.
Originally posted by ecoparity
The Dr's in Ukraine have said that "if you were infected you died". I can't say that is true but it sounds very, very bad.
The swellings, called buboes, were the victim's lymph nodes, and they gave the Bubonic Plague its name. But the bubonic form of the disease was only one manifestation of the horrible pandemic that swept Europe in the 1340s. Another form was Pneumonic Plague. The victims of Pneumonic Plague had no buboes, but they suffered severe chest pains, sweated heavily, and coughed up blood. Virtually no one survived the pneumonic form.
The third manifestation was Septicemic Plague. This sickness would befall when the contagion poisoned the victim's bloodstream. Victims of Septicemic Plague died the most swiftly, often before any notable symptoms had a chance to develop. Another form, Enteric Plague, attacked the victim's digestive system, but it too killed the patient too swiftly for diagnosis of any kind.
A total of 189 people have died and more than one million have been infected in the country.
As of today, the World Health Organization reports 1799 deaths due to the novel H1N1 swine-flu virus among a global total of more than 182,166 cases. By using these numbers, the overall mortality rate is 0.98% (although the actual rate is somewhat lower).
During a typical year in the United States, 30,000 to 50,000 persons die as a result of influenza viral infection. Frequently cited numbers are 20,000 deaths each year, and 37,000 annual deaths. About 5-10% of hospitalizations for influenza lead to fatal outcome in adults...
...The 1918-19 pandemic affected mainly healthy young adults and seemed to spare those at the extremes of life. In the USA, the mortality rate during the 1918 pandemic pandemic was around 2.5%.