Anxious about swine flu? If you're over 60 you can relax [Eire Region]
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THERE is good news at last for the older patients in my surgery. If you are over 60, it appears you will be immune to developing swine flu. That's the interesting pattern doctors and health protection agencies worldwide have noticed, even though last week the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared the outbreak a pandemic. The virus has spread to 74 countries and, last Sunday, a 38-year-old woman in Scotland became the first person to die of swine flu outside of the Americas.
You would expect the most vulnerable to be older people -- as is the case in winter flu epidemics -- but it is not. It seems to be young adults who are succumbing to swine flu. 'The bulk of cases are among younger people mainly in their 20s,' says Dr Keiji Fukuda, of the WHO. So why is this happening? Well, to understand this there are two key things to know about viruses.See the full content of this document
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Anxious about swine flu? If you're over 60 you can relax [Eire Region]
First, viruses evolve and change when circulating in the human population. Second, once you ...
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