H1N1 Swine Flu Showing Unusual Infection Rates Attacking Children Teens Young Adults

H1N1 Swine Flu Showing Unusual Infection Rates Attacking Children Teens Young Adults:
Concerns are mounting in the US today after a comment by Swine Flu H1N1 expert Dr. Anne Schuchat, in which she called the number of H1N1 Swine Flu infection s in those under 20 ‘unusual’. With the recent death of a vice-principal in the New York school system, fears are mouthing that a so-called ‘children’s pandemic’ may be on its way.

The H1N1 swine flu virus killed a vice principal at a New York City school over the weekend and has spread to 48 states. While it appears to be mild, it is affecting a disproportionate number of children, teenagers and young adults.

This includes people needing hospitalization — now up to 200, said Dr. Anne Schuchat of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“That’s very unusual, to have so many people under 20 to require hospitalization, and some of them in (intensive care units),” Schuchat told reporters in a telephone briefing.

The CDC is also pessimistic about the chances of the Swine Flu H1N1 to just go away. Experts are already warning about the 2nd and third wave, which are expected in the USA by this Fall.

CDC officials say around 100,000 people are likely infected with the new flu strain in the United States and Schuchat said the 5,123 confirmed and probable cases and six deaths in the United States were “the tip of the iceberg.”