One quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of the global epidemic suggests. That's a little higher than with ordinary seasonal flu, several experts said....
Stories Related to Swine Flu Put Many Hospitalized Patients Into Icu
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, Associated Press
Thu, 10/08/2009 - 9:48pm
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