Pregnant Women More At Risk From H1N1 Swine Flu

U.S. government researchers said that pregnant women infected with H1N1 swine flu are at higher risk of severe illness and death.

Researchers told that while pregnant women always had a higher risk from influenza, the new swine flu is taking an exceptionally heavy toll.

Dr. Denise Jamieson of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, “we do see a fourfold increase in hospitalization rates among ill pregnant women compared to the general population” .

“We’re also seeing a relatively large proportion of deaths among pregnant women. We report 13 percent in the paper, but that is a very unstable number based on a small number of deaths reported,” said Jamieson, whose study appears in the journal Lancet.

Source: Reuters

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