2009 H1N1 pandemic flu more damaging to lungs, opens opportunities for bacterial infection

Monday, September 19, 2011 - 18:30 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 reveals how the two infections, pandemic influenza and pneumonia, interact to make to make a lethal combination.

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