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SUBMITTER: Kumar A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3256529 | biostudies-other | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Journal of thoracic disease 20111201 4
The 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus that has targeted not only those with chronic medical illness, the very young and old, but also a large segment of the patient population that has previously been afforded relative protection - those who are young, generally healthy, and immune naive. The illness is mild in most, but results in hospitalization and severe ARDS in an important minority. Among those who become critically ill, 20-40% will die, predominantly of severe hypoxic respiratory failure. Howev ...[more]