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US study: Swine flu's first wave put many in ICUs
A new government study shows that one quarter of Americans who were sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care, and 7 percent of them died.
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Health experts say that is a little higher than with ordinary seasonal flu. They say the biggest difference is that nearly half of those hospitalized with the new swine flu have been children and teens. Flu usually strikes hardest in the elderly.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did the study, with local and state health departments.
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