The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued perhaps the most comprehensive report on the swine flu’s activity to date, after a year of H1N1 appearance. This is according to the report of HealthDay News/Bloomberg Business Week.
The New England Journal of Medicine affirms that the disease has taken its heaviest toll on young adults and children generally resemble the seasonal flu. Among other findings, the research and study identify pregnant women in their second and third trimesters and obesity as risk factors for a severe disease.
“The international team of 15 authors writes that the overall estimated case-fatality rate (CFR) has been less than 0.5%, with estimates ranging all the way from 0.0004% to 1.47%, reflecting uncertainty about the true number of cases,” CIDRAP News reports (5/5).