Pregnant Women More At Risk From H1N1 Swine Flu
Posted on Jul 29, 2009 | Comments 0
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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