Pregnant women at highest risk from H1N1 virus

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Pregnant women infected with H1N1 virus have a much higher risk of severe illness and death and should receive prompt treatment with antiviral drugs according to U.S. government researchers from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza virus has been identified as the cause of a widespread outbreak of respiratory infection worldwide. It is well known that pregnant woman have always had a higher risk of severe disease from influenza in general, but it seems the new H1N1 virus is taking an exceptionally heavy toll on them. After initial reports of infection in pregnant women, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began systematically collecting additional information about cases and deaths in pregnant women in the USA with pandemic H1N1 virus infection as part of enhanced surveillance.
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