Egypt: Health: 20% of the deaths from Swine Flu with no underlying conditions

Indicator of a new threat of the virus ..
Health: 20% of the deaths of healthy swine flu
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 - 18:34

The Ministry of Health and the arrival of the mortality rate of swine flu among healthy 20% of the total number of deaths due to infection of swine flu, which reached to 210 deaths as of yesterday evening, Wednesday.

The death of large numbers of healthy people caused by the virus has reached more than 20 cases so far described, Dr. Abdel Rahman Shahin, official spokesman of the Ministry of Health, that has no scientific explanation so far, pointing out that this ratio occurred between healthy and do not have any health problems at all, This confirms the seriousness of the virus, which targets lung, irrational, and pneumonia occurs Allthab transferred to the other lung, to become a double infection, which was an important predictor of deterioration in the patient's condition, which often lead to a death, particularly among the chronically ill, but the new, as described by Chahine is to reach this case between healthy.

On the interpretation of this Shahin said that due to the difference in the quality of the virus, which scored three first differences that prevalence score 10 times the normal spread of viruses, in addition to index the second and embodied in the target age group between 17 to 30, is concentrated at the age of 22 years, a death rate of worrying, The virus used to infect children and the elderly as in the least degree of immunity.

The third indicator, which he described as dangerous is the official spokesman Amadafat disease, which does not differentiate between the healthy and chronically ill in the recent period.