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  • Lungs of fatal swine flu patients badly damaged

    09/03/2009 11:39:02 AM PDT · by neverdem · 159 replies · 4,963+ views
    The Canadian Press ^ | Sep. 3 2009 | NA
    TORONTO -- The lungs of people who have died from swine flu look more like those of the victims of H5N1 avian influenza than those of people who succumb to regular flu, the chief of infectious diseases pathology at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control says. Study of about 70 fatal H1N1 cases so far also reveals there may be more incidences of co-infections with bacteria than was earlier thought, Dr. Sherif Zaki told The Canadian Press in an interview. The damage to lung tissue is consistent with that inflicted by ARDS or acute respiratory distress symptom, Zaki says, referring...