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Hughes relaxed over Man City stars catching swine flu

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 20:37

Manchester City manager Mark Hughes believes most Premier League stars are capable of recovering from swine flu in a matter of days.

Blackburn and Bolton have a number of players showing signs of the virus ahead of their Carling Cup matches.

And City defender Micah Richards was struck down while on holiday in Cyprus in the summer.

Hughes said: "What you find with Premier League clubs is that there are a lot of young, fit, energetic guys.

"If they do get it, they are only laid low for a couple of days. They soon get over it because they are fit and healthy and are not compromised too much.

"We have had experience of the illness already with Micah (Richards) going down with it and we are quite happy with the things we have in place.

"We look at official guidelines and what is recommended in terms of any outbreak occurring."

 
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 23:16.

87% of deaths and 71% of cases of severe pneumonia involved patients between the ages of 5 and 59 years, as compared with average rates of 17% and 32%, respectively, in that age group during the referent periods. Features of this epidemic were similar to those of past influenza pandemics in that circulation of the new influenza virus was associated with an off-season wave of disease affecting a younger population.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 23:11.

genetic-similarity study found that the 2009 A(H1N1) flu was derived from the combination of 4 separate strains of influenza, each circulating in swine populations, including an A(H1N1) strain that has been circulating in swine populations since around the time of the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918. In addition, genetic similarity between the strains isolated in Mexico and those isolated in the United States suggests that the 2009 swine flu was introduced into the human population as a single event and that the virus spread into the United States from Mexico on at least 5 separate occasions. Finally, the researchers determined that because of the length of time that classic swine A(H1N1) has been circulating in swine populations vs human seasonal A(H1N1), the antigenic profile of swine A(H1N1) has drifted sufficiently so that vaccines prepared for human A(H1N1) would have little or no efficacy...it isnt the same as yr "common" flu and it is not simple to treat .....

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 22:54.

are no dumb arse it has been killing young healthy peoplle that is why they started talking about influenza always kills every year normally the old, sick or young they have been worried about the amount of healthy middle aged people being affected dumb arse....

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