Chelsea Parris
Oct 8 2009
8:52pm
This article is says that the number of children who have died from the swine flu has increased dramatically as the virus continues to spread widely around the United States. Little children, teenagers, young adults and pregnant women are unusually often the victims. The deaths of another 19 children and teenagers from the new H1N1 virus were reported in the past week around the country. The total number of fatalities is 76 in 2009 among those younger than age 18. Most of the children who have died have had other health problems that made them vulnerable, such as asthma, muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy; about 20 percent to 30 percent were otherwise healthy. There was a peak of deaths starting April, May, June. It started to level off this summer. Now it's starting to shoot up again. Vaccine against flu is the best way to protect yourself from influenza and those around you.
This is so scary to read. I feel really out of the loop because I didn’t realize people were still dying from the swine flu. I thought that once they figured out a vaccine for the flu that there would be no more deaths. However that is not the case. What is also scary is the fact that my age group is most at risk. I am one of those people that feel like, “it can’t happen to me,” but the reality is that it really can. I just really got to be smart and take the necessary precautions.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100903216.html
2 comments:
That's true, this is scary everybody should take all needed precautions. But since the vaccine just recently came out in the U.S. and is largely unavailable it would be unlikely for it to stop many deaths.
This is scary because many people do not realize the severity of the H1N1 flu because it has been around for sometime now.
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