Aspirin misuse may have made 1918 flu pandemic worse
Saturday, October 3, 2009 - 13:28
in Health & Medicine
The devastation of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic is well known, but a new article suggests a surprising factor in the high death toll: the misuse of aspirin. Appearing in the November 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases and available online now, the article sounds a cautionary note as present day concerns about the novel H1N1 virus run high.