By Leah Chernikoff © 2009 Daily News
Children and the elderly are at "high risk" of serious complications from swine flu.
But pregnant women are among the most vulnerable.
"We don't know the full epidemiology of swine flu because it's so new, but the small literature we do have seems to point to pregnant women as disproportionately affected by the virus," says Dr. Cynthia Gyamfi, assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University Medical Center.
The first swine-flu fatality in the U.S., on May 5, was a pregnant woman, Judy Trunnell, 33, of Texas.
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