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Influenza kills far more of the young and healthy. H1N1 in particular disproportionately hit the younger generations hard.
https://time.com/5099042/influenza-deaths-flu/
The Flu Killed a Healthy 21-Year-Old Man. Here's How That Can Happen
Healthy 21-Year-Old Bodybuilder Dies Just Days After Flu Diagnosis
An aspiring personal trainer from Pennsylvania died from septic shock just days after experiencing flu symptoms over the holidays
By Jamie Ducharme
Updated: January 11, 2018 3:54 PM ET | Originally published: January 11, 2018 1:54 PM EST
Most people view influenza as a routine, if unpleasant, possibility each winter. But the case of a 21-year-old man in Pennsylvania is a poignant reminder that sometimes, the worst-case scenario is more serious than sick days and bed rest.
Kyle Baughman, an aspiring personal trainer living in Latrobe, came home for Christmas not feeling well, his mother, Beverly, told WPXI. His symptoms persisted after returning to work after the holidays. “I think he thought, ‘I just got the flu, I’ll be alright. I’ll go rest a little bit,'” Beverly Baughman told WPXI.
Just a few days later, however, Kyle Baughman died at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian hospital from flu-related organ failure, according to his family.
TIME asked Dr. Peter Shearer, director of the emergency department at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City (who was not involved in Baughman’s case), how and why the flu can turn fatal.
Why does the flu turn deadly?
“Influenza can be a very serious illness,” Shearer says. “Even though the vast majority of the public that comes down with actual influenza will get through it with Tylenol, fluids, Motrin, whatever, there are people who do get very sick.”
Deadly cases are mostly limited to the very young, the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions, such as respiratory illnesses, but Shearer says a very small percentage of otherwise healthy people do develop serious complications. “You’ve got a lot more mucus production, coughing, et cetera. It sets you up for possibly a bacterial infection [such as bacterial pneumonia] on top of [flu symptoms],” Shearer says. For some people with pneumonia, “it will spread to their bloodstream and cause an overwhelming, multi-system infection.” While these cases are extremely infrequent, they can sometimes end in death, Shearer says.
What should you do if you have the flu?
Don’t try to ride it out yourself, Shearer says. He recommends visiting your primary care doctor or an urgent care clinic within 48 hours of developing telltale flu symptoms, including cough, fever, runny nose, sore throat and body aches. A doctor can treat you with Tamiflu, an antiviral medication that can mitigate some symptoms and shorten the duration of the illness.
But if you’re seeking treatment, the emergency room shouldn’t necessarily be your first choice, Shearer says, as you’ll run the risk of infecting others and exposing yourself to sicknesses potentially more severe than yours.
How can you tell if the flu is serious?
In most cases, flu symptoms will subside within three to seven days and are mild enough to be treated with over-the-counter painkillers, fluids and rest, Shearer says. If you experience prolonged symptoms, or shortness of breath on par with what you’d feel during strenuous exercise, you should see your doctor to rule out complications, he says.
Is it too late to get a flu shot?
Not at all. “It’s better now than never,” Shearer says. “Flu season, although it is ramping up, is going to continue for another few weeks. If you develop a bit of an immunity now, and you’re exposed in February, it will protect you.”
https://time.com/5099042/influenza-deaths-flu/
The Flu Killed a Healthy 21-Year-Old Man. Here's How That Can Happen
Healthy 21-Year-Old Bodybuilder Dies Just Days After Flu Diagnosis
An aspiring personal trainer from Pennsylvania died from septic shock just days after experiencing flu symptoms over the holidays
By Jamie Ducharme
Updated: January 11, 2018 3:54 PM ET | Originally published: January 11, 2018 1:54 PM EST
Most people view influenza as a routine, if unpleasant, possibility each winter. But the case of a 21-year-old man in Pennsylvania is a poignant reminder that sometimes, the worst-case scenario is more serious than sick days and bed rest.
Kyle Baughman, an aspiring personal trainer living in Latrobe, came home for Christmas not feeling well, his mother, Beverly, told WPXI. His symptoms persisted after returning to work after the holidays. “I think he thought, ‘I just got the flu, I’ll be alright. I’ll go rest a little bit,'” Beverly Baughman told WPXI.
Just a few days later, however, Kyle Baughman died at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian hospital from flu-related organ failure, according to his family.
TIME asked Dr. Peter Shearer, director of the emergency department at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City (who was not involved in Baughman’s case), how and why the flu can turn fatal.
Why does the flu turn deadly?
“Influenza can be a very serious illness,” Shearer says. “Even though the vast majority of the public that comes down with actual influenza will get through it with Tylenol, fluids, Motrin, whatever, there are people who do get very sick.”
Deadly cases are mostly limited to the very young, the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions, such as respiratory illnesses, but Shearer says a very small percentage of otherwise healthy people do develop serious complications. “You’ve got a lot more mucus production, coughing, et cetera. It sets you up for possibly a bacterial infection [such as bacterial pneumonia] on top of [flu symptoms],” Shearer says. For some people with pneumonia, “it will spread to their bloodstream and cause an overwhelming, multi-system infection.” While these cases are extremely infrequent, they can sometimes end in death, Shearer says.
What should you do if you have the flu?
Don’t try to ride it out yourself, Shearer says. He recommends visiting your primary care doctor or an urgent care clinic within 48 hours of developing telltale flu symptoms, including cough, fever, runny nose, sore throat and body aches. A doctor can treat you with Tamiflu, an antiviral medication that can mitigate some symptoms and shorten the duration of the illness.
But if you’re seeking treatment, the emergency room shouldn’t necessarily be your first choice, Shearer says, as you’ll run the risk of infecting others and exposing yourself to sicknesses potentially more severe than yours.
How can you tell if the flu is serious?
In most cases, flu symptoms will subside within three to seven days and are mild enough to be treated with over-the-counter painkillers, fluids and rest, Shearer says. If you experience prolonged symptoms, or shortness of breath on par with what you’d feel during strenuous exercise, you should see your doctor to rule out complications, he says.
Is it too late to get a flu shot?
Not at all. “It’s better now than never,” Shearer says. “Flu season, although it is ramping up, is going to continue for another few weeks. If you develop a bit of an immunity now, and you’re exposed in February, it will protect you.”
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Why The Flu Kills Young, Otherwise Healthy People
Ed Cara
6-7 minutes
As one of the worst flu seasons in years continues to sicken people across the US, one of its most striking aspects are the untimely deaths it's caused: A 21-year-old bodybuilder; a 12-year-old boy; a 40-year-old marathoner. Infants, the elderly and immunocompromised people are always at higher risk of dying from the flu, but how exactly does the flu kill an otherwise healthy person?
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A strain of the H1N1 influenza virus, seen above. Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
"The truth is, there's still quite a bit of science that isn't clear, but in general, when we talk about deaths related to influenza, there's a couple of main mechanisms," Dr Daniel Eiras, an infectious disease and immunology expert at New York University, told me.
When doctors such as Eiras talk about "flu-related deaths", they're lumping in more than one kind of cause. Broadly, there are deaths caused by the flu itself, and deaths caused or aided by the bacteria that take advantage of the opening in the immune system's defences created by the flu.
When the flu virus successfully sets up shop in our body, usually infecting our nose and throat cells, the body tries to fight back with a whole array of weapons, including launching inflammation and T-cells and macrophages that turn the foreign invaders into goo. The flu's symptoms - phlegmy cough, body aches, sore throat and a fever - are the external result of this defence. It's annoying for us, yes, but it generally works to eventually flush the virus out.
However, when the flu turns deadly, it's often because the virus, the bacteria that proliferated in its wake, or both have found their way to the air sacs of our lungs, causing an infection we call pneumonia. There, the microscopic battle can overwhelm our body. The lungs become inflamed, while our air sacs become flooded with fluid and pus. That makes it hard for us to get enough oxygen, and without and sometimes even despite supportive care, we essentially drown to death.
Pneumonia is almost always what strikes down flu victims, particularly the sickly or elderly (though they can have other complications, such as a heart attack, brought on by the stress of an infection). But the flu can also trigger a destructive chain of events known as sepsis. "It's someone's immune system going haywire, for lack of a better term," Eiras said. "As it's responding to an infection, it goes into hyperdrive, and affects organs all throughout the body."
Sepsis, which can appear alone or alongside pneumonia, can quickly lead to widespread tissue damage, organ failure and ultimately death as the immune system attacks healthy tissue. It's these flu deaths that we often hear characterised as coming out of nowhere, as in the case of 21-year-old Kyler Baughman, whose organs shut down in response to septic shock (a dangerously low drop in blood pressure) within days of first reporting symptoms. Even more rarely, the flu can also worm its way into other parts of the body, such as the heart or nervous system, causing other serious, life-threatening complications.
Children, Eiras said, might be at greater risk for sepsis because their immature immune systems are more likely to slip up and overreact to the flu. And younger people overall seem to be more likely to develop sepsis and pneumonia when the flu virus is particularly virulent and difficult to protect ourselves against - the sort of pandemic strains that engulfed the world in the early 20th century and more recently during the winter of 2009. What helps makes a flu strain pandemic is its novelty. The virus mutates into a shape that people have never or rarely seen before (and that our vaccines aren't calibrated against), so it runs wild, easily spreading and sickening most any person it touches.
This novelty also helps send the immune system into meltdown, leading to both more pneumonia and sepsis. But older people, though typically weaker against the flu, are more likely to have encountered some version of a pandemic strain in the past, granting them at least some level of immunity. This explains why flu pandemics tend to kill the young and healthy.
The current US flu season isn't an example of this phenomenon, though. The main flu strain this winter in the US, H3N2, is one people regularly face, though it is one of worst kinds of seasonal flu. Vaccines are pretty bad at stopping it because of how fast it can mutate, which has led to overall less protection. But we have plenty of built-in immunity already. This flu season is expected to come close to or even surpass the death toll seen during America's severe flu season of 2014-2015, in which 56,000 Americans died. But those deaths will still happen more among the elderly than any other group.
"The flu is extremely common. It causes - worldwide, in a given year - millions of infections; it causes hundreds of thousands of hospitalisations; and tens of thousands of deaths in the US," Eiras said. "It's going to infect and kill those who are susceptible, but also those thought to be very healthy... it's to some extent a luck of the draw. Sometimes you can point to an underlying condition, oftentimes you can't."
These deaths, Eiras added, will come to the forefront of our (and the media's) attention because they're unusual more than anything else. But that doesn't mean that young people shouldn't worry about the flu, nor avoid things that can lower their risk of catching it or developing serious symptoms.
"Getting vaccinated, not just for yourself but those around you, is really the best form of prevention and treatment we have. That and the typical things, like washing your hands and avoiding people who are sick," Eiras said.
Why The Flu Kills Young, Otherwise Healthy People
Ed Cara
6-7 minutes
As one of the worst flu seasons in years continues to sicken people across the US, one of its most striking aspects are the untimely deaths it's caused: A 21-year-old bodybuilder; a 12-year-old boy; a 40-year-old marathoner. Infants, the elderly and immunocompromised people are always at higher risk of dying from the flu, but how exactly does the flu kill an otherwise healthy person?
Swipe to close
A strain of the H1N1 influenza virus, seen above. Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
"The truth is, there's still quite a bit of science that isn't clear, but in general, when we talk about deaths related to influenza, there's a couple of main mechanisms," Dr Daniel Eiras, an infectious disease and immunology expert at New York University, told me.
When doctors such as Eiras talk about "flu-related deaths", they're lumping in more than one kind of cause. Broadly, there are deaths caused by the flu itself, and deaths caused or aided by the bacteria that take advantage of the opening in the immune system's defences created by the flu.
When the flu virus successfully sets up shop in our body, usually infecting our nose and throat cells, the body tries to fight back with a whole array of weapons, including launching inflammation and T-cells and macrophages that turn the foreign invaders into goo. The flu's symptoms - phlegmy cough, body aches, sore throat and a fever - are the external result of this defence. It's annoying for us, yes, but it generally works to eventually flush the virus out.
However, when the flu turns deadly, it's often because the virus, the bacteria that proliferated in its wake, or both have found their way to the air sacs of our lungs, causing an infection we call pneumonia. There, the microscopic battle can overwhelm our body. The lungs become inflamed, while our air sacs become flooded with fluid and pus. That makes it hard for us to get enough oxygen, and without and sometimes even despite supportive care, we essentially drown to death.
Pneumonia is almost always what strikes down flu victims, particularly the sickly or elderly (though they can have other complications, such as a heart attack, brought on by the stress of an infection). But the flu can also trigger a destructive chain of events known as sepsis. "It's someone's immune system going haywire, for lack of a better term," Eiras said. "As it's responding to an infection, it goes into hyperdrive, and affects organs all throughout the body."
Sepsis, which can appear alone or alongside pneumonia, can quickly lead to widespread tissue damage, organ failure and ultimately death as the immune system attacks healthy tissue. It's these flu deaths that we often hear characterised as coming out of nowhere, as in the case of 21-year-old Kyler Baughman, whose organs shut down in response to septic shock (a dangerously low drop in blood pressure) within days of first reporting symptoms. Even more rarely, the flu can also worm its way into other parts of the body, such as the heart or nervous system, causing other serious, life-threatening complications.
Children, Eiras said, might be at greater risk for sepsis because their immature immune systems are more likely to slip up and overreact to the flu. And younger people overall seem to be more likely to develop sepsis and pneumonia when the flu virus is particularly virulent and difficult to protect ourselves against - the sort of pandemic strains that engulfed the world in the early 20th century and more recently during the winter of 2009. What helps makes a flu strain pandemic is its novelty. The virus mutates into a shape that people have never or rarely seen before (and that our vaccines aren't calibrated against), so it runs wild, easily spreading and sickening most any person it touches.
This novelty also helps send the immune system into meltdown, leading to both more pneumonia and sepsis. But older people, though typically weaker against the flu, are more likely to have encountered some version of a pandemic strain in the past, granting them at least some level of immunity. This explains why flu pandemics tend to kill the young and healthy.
The current US flu season isn't an example of this phenomenon, though. The main flu strain this winter in the US, H3N2, is one people regularly face, though it is one of worst kinds of seasonal flu. Vaccines are pretty bad at stopping it because of how fast it can mutate, which has led to overall less protection. But we have plenty of built-in immunity already. This flu season is expected to come close to or even surpass the death toll seen during America's severe flu season of 2014-2015, in which 56,000 Americans died. But those deaths will still happen more among the elderly than any other group.
"The flu is extremely common. It causes - worldwide, in a given year - millions of infections; it causes hundreds of thousands of hospitalisations; and tens of thousands of deaths in the US," Eiras said. "It's going to infect and kill those who are susceptible, but also those thought to be very healthy... it's to some extent a luck of the draw. Sometimes you can point to an underlying condition, oftentimes you can't."
These deaths, Eiras added, will come to the forefront of our (and the media's) attention because they're unusual more than anything else. But that doesn't mean that young people shouldn't worry about the flu, nor avoid things that can lower their risk of catching it or developing serious symptoms.
"Getting vaccinated, not just for yourself but those around you, is really the best form of prevention and treatment we have. That and the typical things, like washing your hands and avoiding people who are sick," Eiras said.
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https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/pandemic-global-estimates.htm
2009 H1N1 Pandemic Hits the Young Especially Hard
“Ongoing efforts to strengthen influenza surveillance worldwide, particularly for influenza-associated mortality, are needed both to guide seasonal influenza prevention strategies and to build influenza surveillance systems to provide better, more timely, and globally representative data for influenza-associated mortality during future pandemics,” says Dawood.
This study estimated that 80% of 2009 H1N1 deaths were in people younger than 65 years of age which differs from typical seasonal influenza epidemics during which 80-90% of deaths are estimated to occur in people 65 years of age and older. To illustrate the impact of the shift in the age distribution of influenza deaths to younger age groups during the pandemic, researchers calculated the number of years of life lost due to 2009 H1N1-associated deaths. They estimated that 3 times as many years of life were lost during the first year of 2009 H1N1 virus circulation than would have occurred for the same number of deaths during a typical influenza season.
“Previous studies have documented that people younger than 65 years were more affected by the 2009 H1N1 pandemic than during typical influenza seasons. Our estimates support this observation and our analysis of years of life lost during the first year of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic underscores the impact that this pandemic had in comparison to typical seasonal influenza epidemics,” says Dawood.
Though the most recent influenza pandemic was hard on the young, the impact on the global population overall during the first year was less severe than that of previous pandemics. Estimates of pandemic influenza mortality ranged from 0.03% of the world’s population during the 1968 pandemic to 1–3% of the world’s population during the 1918 pandemic. It was estimated that 0.001–0.007% of the world’s population died of respiratory complications associated with 2009 H1N1 virus infection during the first 12 months the virus circulated (or 0.001–0.011% when cardiovascular deaths were included).
Because respiratory or cardiovascular influenza-related complications can lead to death, researchers estimated both respiratory and cardiovascular deaths to reach a total global estimate of mortality. An estimated 105,700-395,600 respiratory deaths occurred, while an additional 46,000-179,900 deaths were attributed to cardiovascular complications. (Influenza-associated cardiovascular deaths were only estimated in persons 18 years of age and older since cardiovascular complications are relatively rare in children younger than 18 years.)
This study’s approach to measuring the impact of 2009 H1N1 shows progress toward more accurate estimates of global mortality and advances understanding of the burden of influenza around the world, while the volume of estimated 2009 H1N1 deaths underscores the need for CDC’s continued commitment to influenza prevention and control activities around the world.
“Ongoing efforts to strengthen influenza surveillance worldwide, particularly for influenza-associated mortality, are needed both to guide seasonal influenza prevention strategies and to build influenza surveillance systems to provide better, more timely, and globally representative data for influenza-associated mortality during future pandemics,” says Dawood.
2009 H1N1 Pandemic Hits the Young Especially Hard
“Ongoing efforts to strengthen influenza surveillance worldwide, particularly for influenza-associated mortality, are needed both to guide seasonal influenza prevention strategies and to build influenza surveillance systems to provide better, more timely, and globally representative data for influenza-associated mortality during future pandemics,” says Dawood.
This study estimated that 80% of 2009 H1N1 deaths were in people younger than 65 years of age which differs from typical seasonal influenza epidemics during which 80-90% of deaths are estimated to occur in people 65 years of age and older. To illustrate the impact of the shift in the age distribution of influenza deaths to younger age groups during the pandemic, researchers calculated the number of years of life lost due to 2009 H1N1-associated deaths. They estimated that 3 times as many years of life were lost during the first year of 2009 H1N1 virus circulation than would have occurred for the same number of deaths during a typical influenza season.
“Previous studies have documented that people younger than 65 years were more affected by the 2009 H1N1 pandemic than during typical influenza seasons. Our estimates support this observation and our analysis of years of life lost during the first year of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic underscores the impact that this pandemic had in comparison to typical seasonal influenza epidemics,” says Dawood.
Though the most recent influenza pandemic was hard on the young, the impact on the global population overall during the first year was less severe than that of previous pandemics. Estimates of pandemic influenza mortality ranged from 0.03% of the world’s population during the 1968 pandemic to 1–3% of the world’s population during the 1918 pandemic. It was estimated that 0.001–0.007% of the world’s population died of respiratory complications associated with 2009 H1N1 virus infection during the first 12 months the virus circulated (or 0.001–0.011% when cardiovascular deaths were included).
Because respiratory or cardiovascular influenza-related complications can lead to death, researchers estimated both respiratory and cardiovascular deaths to reach a total global estimate of mortality. An estimated 105,700-395,600 respiratory deaths occurred, while an additional 46,000-179,900 deaths were attributed to cardiovascular complications. (Influenza-associated cardiovascular deaths were only estimated in persons 18 years of age and older since cardiovascular complications are relatively rare in children younger than 18 years.)
This study’s approach to measuring the impact of 2009 H1N1 shows progress toward more accurate estimates of global mortality and advances understanding of the burden of influenza around the world, while the volume of estimated 2009 H1N1 deaths underscores the need for CDC’s continued commitment to influenza prevention and control activities around the world.
“Ongoing efforts to strengthen influenza surveillance worldwide, particularly for influenza-associated mortality, are needed both to guide seasonal influenza prevention strategies and to build influenza surveillance systems to provide better, more timely, and globally representative data for influenza-associated mortality during future pandemics,” says Dawood.
Fake news.. best food, fresh and good quality food, and anything goes to army first.... so how can they be sick...
They hv code named this excerise to see any enemies try to attack them in such a once in a life time situation.....
Or they fake one, testing, testing...
Come on.... any army problems are top secret and why are they flashing news for world to know... bullshit... such a sly country....
Did u hear and see other armies also suffer this pandemic? Virus spare no one and kill anyone with no mercy...
Even SAF with partime 2 years conscript soldiers never flashes news of any soldiers infected with CV19.
Why is this shit US news all over behaved like a spoilt child want attention.... shitttt....
Even if its true, commoners and armies are separated apart, news from armies has nothing to do with commoners... least not to get them confused, panic or cause duress to commoners.
AMLG has no ethnic or ethical common sense. Democrazy my arse... Division of problems stay within the framework of military and leave the commoners alone.
Commoners already have problems put food on the table for his family today.... why drag them with news of armies problem...
They hv code named this excerise to see any enemies try to attack them in such a once in a life time situation.....
Or they fake one, testing, testing...
Come on.... any army problems are top secret and why are they flashing news for world to know... bullshit... such a sly country....
Did u hear and see other armies also suffer this pandemic? Virus spare no one and kill anyone with no mercy...
Even SAF with partime 2 years conscript soldiers never flashes news of any soldiers infected with CV19.
Why is this shit US news all over behaved like a spoilt child want attention.... shitttt....
Even if its true, commoners and armies are separated apart, news from armies has nothing to do with commoners... least not to get them confused, panic or cause duress to commoners.
AMLG has no ethnic or ethical common sense. Democrazy my arse... Division of problems stay within the framework of military and leave the commoners alone.
Commoners already have problems put food on the table for his family today.... why drag them with news of armies problem...
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