Swine flu's tendency to strike the young is causing confusion

Friday, September 18, 2009 - 12:42 in Health & Medicine

Even as health officials anticipate a new onslaught of H1N1 cases, the pattern of the pandemic influenza strain -- which tends to be fatal for the middle-aged but not the elderly -- remains a mystery. As health officials brace for a new onslaught of illness from the novel H1N1 virus, they remain perplexed by one of the most unusual and unsettling patterns to...

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