Critical illness glues along pregnant ladies with swine flu

eports from the latest study stated that pregnant women with swine flu are 13 times more prone to critical illnesses than non-pregnant women infected with H1N1.
The research, which was conducted by bmj. com, took an account of pregnant women in Australia and New Zealand.
The research found that 11 per cent of mothers and 12 per cent of the babies died when they were admitted to intensive care with swine flu.
The research was a joint effort of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care (ANZIC) Influenza Investigators and the Australasian Maternity Outcomes Surveillance System. In this researchers headed by Dr. Ian Seppelt checked out the data pertaining to women suffering from swine flu, both those who are pregnant and those who had given birth within the last 28 days, between 1 June and 31 August 2009.
It was finally revealed that the ones who were more than 20 weeks pregnant were 13 times more to catch any sort of illness and be admitted to an ICU than non-pregnant women who had swine flu.  more......topnews.in/