H1N1 Often Hit the Young and Healthy
WHO report, issued a year after outbreak began, finds this flu had new targets
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) — A year after the H1N1 flu first appeared, the World Health Organization has issued perhaps the most comprehensive report on the pandemic’s activity to date.
“Here’s the definitive reference that shows in black-and-white what many people have said in meetings and talked about,” said Dr. John Treanor, a professor of medicine and of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.
The H1N1 flu disproportionately affected children and young adults, not the older adults normally taken by the traditional flu, states the report, which appears in the May 6 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
