Pneumonia

2009 H1N1 pandemic flu more damaging to lungs, opens opportunities for bacterial infection

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 9th, 2011

2011 OCT 9 -- Many of the people who died from the new strain of H1N1 influenza that broke out in 2009 were suffering from another infection as well: pneumonia. A new study to be published, September 20 in the online journal mBio® reveals how the two infections, pandemic influenza and pneumonia, interact to make to make a lethal combination.

Back in 2009, autopsies of 34 of the victims of the H1N1 pandemic influenza virus revealed that about half showed signs of bacterial co-infection in their lungs. This was a telling sign that the two pathogens are playing off one another, but until now little was known about the biological interactions between them...

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