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Article: Swine flu can cause viral pneumonia ; WHO tells doctors to treat it quickly with class of drugs
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2009
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WASHINGTON - The World Health Organization urged doctors
yesterday to treat suspected swine flu cases as quickly as possible
with antiviral drugs, warning that the virus can cause potentially
life-threatening viral pneumonia much more commonly than the typical
flu, sometimes in relatively young, otherwise healthy people.
"It's not like seasonal influenza," said Nikki Shindo, a medical
officer in the WHO's Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response
Department. "It can cause very severe disease in previously healthy
young adults."
Shindo's made those comments at the conclusion of a special three-
day meeting in Washington of more than 100 specialists from around
the world.
The WHO called the ...