First, let me just say, I don't think anyone here is "panicking", or "buying into" anything. I do think, however slanted the media may be, it's important to pay attention and stay on the alert to what is being said, filter at your own discretion if you will.
As far as what Icedragon said (Thomas), there are many reports, on radio and internet that allude to what he suggested, here are a few:
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Also, this year's flu vaccine offers no protection against swine flu, to which people have no natural immunity. And unlike seasonal flu, which typically affects the very old and very young, initial reports from Mexico suggested that swine flu was affecting young, healthy people.
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Investigators also want to know why the disease has killed young adults, who should have the greatest resistance.
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That’s what investigators from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control are investigating very actively, because a lot more needs to be understood about the deaths before we can understand the threat. The age of the victims has been reportedly been people in their 20s, 30s and 40s, which is one of the most frightening things about it, because flu usually strikes and kills the very old and frail, and sometimes the very young. In 1918, the ultimate pandemic we know about killed healthy young adults. That’s one of the reasons why this outbreak is potentially frightening. We still have to understand more
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Swine flu and deaths in healthy adults--cytokine storm?
Category: General Epidemiology • General biology • Infectious disease • Influenza • Outbreak • Public health • Various viruses
Posted on: April 26, 2009 9:00 AM, by Tara C. Smith
Over the last 24 hours, I've received a few comments and even more emails asking about or discussing the possibility of a "cytokine storm" triggered by the H1N1 swine flu reassortant. Is this what's happening in the cases from Mexico? Discussion after the jump...
Let me begin with a bit of background on what's meant by a "cytokine storm." In response to infection, the body has a number of ways to fight back against the invading microbe. Cytokines are one part of this defense. These are molecules produced by a number of different types of cells in response to infection that act as signals to other cells in the body--telling them to divide, or to produce certain proteins, or to cease their production. They assist, basically, in orchestrating portions of the immune response. A "cytokine storm" occurs when this regulation goes haywire--the very molecules that are supposed to be protecting the body end up causing it harm by responding too strongly to the infection. (Note that this is quite over-simplified; the cytokine response itself is incompletely understood, and other players in addition to cytokines are also involved).
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This last "story" from a science blog, was also brought up in completely separate radio report by 1010WINS in NY this morning. Interestingly, my daughter is studying this in science class, and wondered a theory on it last night. There seems to be a combination of factors that are being discussed in ref. to why the Mexican citizens are being affected more severely.
By the way, it wasn't college students that went to Cancun, St. Francis Prep is a Catholic Preparatory High school.
Pepp