2009 H1N1 pandemic flu more damaging to lungs, opens opportunities for bacterial infection
Monday, September 19, 2011 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Many of the people who died from the new strain of H1N1 influenza that broke out in 2009 were suffering from another infection as well: pneumonia. A new study to be published Tuesday, September 20 in the online journal mBio reveals how the two infections, pandemic influenza and pneumonia, interact to make to make a lethal combination.