If the CDC is to be believed, and I am reading the info right, there were 185 pediatric deaths during last years flu season, which was above normal. However, this was not specific to H1N1 Type A virus, meaning the number would be less than the 185 pediatric deaths.
Confirmed adult deaths due to H1N1 Type A during the 2017-2018 flu season, in the US, would be much harder to ascertain. However, it would still be rare.
During the 2017-2018 Influenza season, “As of October 27, 2018, a total of 185 pediatric deaths had been reported to CDC”
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2017-2018.htm
So while not impossible, out of 330,000,000+ people in the US, this is not normal. An age group which includes 26 would be significantly more unusual.
If this is indeed what happened to Bre Peyton, she could have picked up the H1N1 Type A virus from several places. Just one example could be from two weeks prior to Bre Peyton’s death, she was in DC, and visited a bar/restaurant just over 1 mile straight north of the White House with her boyfriend. However, wherever it came from, because the H1N1 Type A virus is highly contagious and so aggressive, one would think there should be others who also contracted it.
However, at 26, this is a bit unusual.
Swine flu was noted for killing the young and healthy, unlike most other flus.
My question is where she got it. It’s a virus that originated, like virtually all flus, among pigs in China. But it spread out after that mini-epidemic a few years ago, so she could have gotten it anywhere.
“However, at 26, this is a bit unusual.”
Not at all. In fact it made her more likely than most to die from it.
The age cohort having the highest mortality rate in the 1918 H1N1 flu epidemic was 26 yrs old. 80 per 10,000.
H1N1 leverages the strong immune system of young adults against them by creating a cytokine storm. They can literally suffocate in their own antibodies.